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NikonRepair@yahoogrou...
Sep 2, 2006 5:43 am
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Hi, I bought a defect FA in very nice cosmetic condition but with some problems: when on P, S and A mode the LCD shows always HI.In manual mode it shows the +M...
Does anyone have experience of the F100? I have one in as new condition but the batteries do not last long. I don't use it much, partly for this reason and...
Craig Andrew (DS/PJM2...
Andrew.Craig@...
Sep 7, 2006 11:05 am
6550
I plan to buy a new digital camera to supplement my old mechanical film-based bodies, Nikon F and Nikkormat FTn. I have some manual AI and two pre-AI lenses,...
Henrik, In your article, you wrote, "Black touch up paint was applied to the shiny face (fig. 12). I have later discovered that it wont bind, so I might need ...
Craig if you use rechargeable batteries, those are supposed to go out in a month, even if they are freshly charged when inserted and camera not being used at...
Thanks Bin, I take your point but it discharges whether I use a fresh set of alkalines, or NiMh which work perfectly well in the various flash guns. I would...
Craig Andrew (DS/PJM2...
Andrew.Craig@...
Sep 8, 2006 2:25 pm
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In a message dated 9/8/2006 6:26:27 AM Eastern Daylight Time, pedipsen@... writes: modify the aperture ring as shown here: ...
In a message dated 9/8/2006 10:54:46 AM Eastern Daylight Time, degaon@... ... still ... I've done AI modifications on literally hundreds of lenses. I use...
My F100 doesn't get a lot of use these days, and it's had the same set of Duracells in it for long enough that I can't remember when I last changed them. It's...
... precision ... done with ... relative...............I believe my AI modifications are the most complete ... conversion kit, if ... Thank you so much for...
I'm using a 4GB 120X from Transcend. I bought it @ Fry's Electronic for $74.99 - $15 (rebate). Seems to work fine with my D200. I have one from Amazon (brand ...
... Actually, customs is not an issue. The lenses are shipped with a customs form marked "used lenses sent for repair" and then returned with a customs form ...
... Hi Henrik, Yes the aperture rings should end up looking something like that (with apertures set to 5.6). I recommend that you fabricate a template like the...
Hey all... Last week, I decided I'd kick it old skool for a few weeks, and busted out my old F4 for the US Open. Upon looking in the viewfinder, I'm getting...
... Thank you so much. I hear you say, that the aperture ring might be machined without a genuine AI lens, but the lens speed indexing post is too difficult to...
... So all I need is to work on the aperture ring to make it look as much as possible like de ring on a similar AI-lens when the target is a D200 (and the old...
... I can't find it documented right now, but if you slip the finder off an F4, the top display 'reverts' to a basic meter for the body's own spot meter. The...
Henrik, well, they do not need to look like the scans. The critical part is to "leave" Meter Coupling Ridges with leading edges the right places. Following...
... Thank you for the supplement. Hm.... I think I understand what you mean, but I am also pretty sure, that the best will be to locate a sample that I can...
Hello! I own two Nikon SB-26 Flash units and on one of them the head seems to be stuck! Every time i select the "zoom" manually or connected to the camera the...
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