rankamaterur

Just jump in and try it. Press the little red button beside the shutter release, and start making your movie. Since you mention Final Cut, I assume you are in the Apple ecosystem. If so, iMovie is ...

By far the most pancake-ey Nikkor is the 45P f/2.8. Very small, even with the lens hood. Manual focus, but, being a 'P' lens, it does communicate with the body. Optically, the 45P is at least on ...

The "PC-E" designation means "Electronic Aperture" The aperture is controlled electronically from the body. The 24PC-E has a physical aperture ring, but still requires power and communication from ...

Sorry- wasn't paying attention! Tested the wrong lens. Don't have the PC-E... (wish I did)

The 45P is a manual focus lens, so... But yeah, even manual focus lenses usually focus a little beyond infinity. My 45P actually comes pretty close to infinity focus at the stop-- the focus ...

I would not hesitate to send the lens to Nikon US, unless you have a need for it in the next few weeks. El Segundo is closed, but Melville, NY is up and running. I had a repair done by Melville, ...

This may be more of a Sigma thing than a Nikon thing. It is possible that the camera is sending a command to change aperture on power-down, or it may be that the lens is defaulting to a certain ...

Ah- got it. I skimmed over the part with the confusion between the "F1N" and the "New F1". Thanks

I'm a little lost as to who made what claims on this thread regarding batteries, but it seems like you are now using an LR44 type (alkaline) battery in a Canon F1-n, which was designed for a ...

You may need both.  That is, you may need "Macro" (Close focusing) and "Telephoto" (Longer focal length). It is not clear to me from your description how large a field of view you desire. If you ...

Before you go shopping for a different lens, you could try some experiments yourself, to test your theories. The subject you have chosen is not ideal for evaluating for field curvature, because the ...

This is a known phenomenon in Rational Choice Theory. Basically, you would have been 'happier' if Camera B was obviously defective. As it is, you have to destroy a working Camera B to restore ...

Recap: 1) As Citizenlouie has said, the replacement of the original spec mercury battery is likely causing underexposure. There are a couple workarounds-- not really solutions. The first is to use ...

Yep- SB-28 is obviously not going to work with IR wireless, since it lacks the IR receiver.

Gotcha. You might have a close look at the SU-800, or perhaps try to  borrow one to test. Page 116 of ther SU-800 manual says: "TTL mode is available with cameras compatible with TTL auto flash mode"

Oh- right. You did say wireless. Back in that era, I did use the SC-28 style remote cable for off-camera flash. Not sure about wireless solutions to that part. I still think the ultimate solution ...

Nikon's old TTL technology actually looked at reflected light off the film during flash exposure, to meter flash. This did not work well with digital sensors, and the TTL system was replaced by ...