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Personally, I find ICE rather useful. I've never found it to have a hugely detrimental impact on quality, and it's invaluable to clean up a lot of the dust and general crud on old slides. My ...

Or perhaps if the OP may need to go back in the future and do further edits?

If you really need to keep the files, and it sounds like you do, then just accept that you'll have to cater for more disk space - it's fairly cheap nowadays....

But AF would add quite a bit  to the cost, and the cost/benefit only stacks up if mirror lenses are quite a bit cheaper then 'normal' lens designs. If I was going to spend considerably more money, ...

I don't really do selling, only acquiring :-)

I don't know your camera, but a couple of things come to mind :- i) it looks like your camera has a 1.6x focal length multiplier, so I wouldn't even consider using it handheld at any speed under ...

Not difficult, but more temperature sensitive... Made a difference in a freezing cold flat ;-)

NX-D mainly, with Affinity if I want to do anything more complex. View-NXi is occasionally useful, and I use ACDSee purely for it's DAM facilities - it lets you call external editors like NX-D and ...

That's the one that I would definitely put a CPL on :-)

I like CPLs, so use them on my walkabout (28-105) and wide (18-35) lenses. As long as you buy CPLs with thin mounts (e.g. Hoya Pro 1) then you probably won't get any serious vignetting. I don't use ...

Yup :-)

As has been said, with a lot more info there will be people here who will be able to help optimize your results. The files that you're including can't be the originals, surely, as they should be huge.

Thanks to you all... Some experimentation is in order :-)

Yes, the manual says f/5.6, and the copy from the pdf converted it to 15.6 :-)

Yes, I've heard of it. It looks extremely good but I don't do a lot of DTP work, and so I'm still using Serif PagePlus X7, as well as their WebPlus X8 - both discontinued for some while. They also ...

Or maybe the FT2 was a pre AI camera.... My FE/FMs that I replaced it with didn't need this... AFAICS the F2AS was introduced in 1977, so probably doesn't need this, either - I thought that it was ...

From the FT2 manual :- LensMounting In order for the Nikkormat FT2 exposure meter to measure light at full aperture with lenses of different maximum aperture, the meter must be adjusted for the ...

I thought that it was for AI - I remember having to do it on an FT2, and didn't (and still don't) have any pre AI lenses.

With an AI lens, don't you also have to close down/open up in order to 'register' the largest aperture? Or vice versa - can't remember....

My apologies if this is a stupid question.... I quite like HDR processing and have just started looking at it again. Initially, the advice seemed to be to put the camera on a tripod and take (say) ...