Thats strange! Nikon pride themselves on the fact that all Nikkor SLR lens fit their most up to date camera bodies. So you could have a lens that was made in the 1950s that will fit the D3x/D3s/D3, OK it may not be VR Auto lens but it should still work on every Nikon DSLR. My pro kit is Nikon and the camers I use just now are a D3, D3s and a D2x. All but one of my lens are Nikkor and that's a Sigma 300mm f2.8 it is really good and never fails me.

Couple of words of advice get the largest Memory cards you camera can take and get a few of them. I carry about 20-cards - the D3's can take two 32Gb cards. If you can shoot RAW rather than Jpeg - quality and colour is a lot better in RAW. Shop around for the best deal - try not to use a certain camera shop starting with J on the High Street.

Yours Aye,

Oberon
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I've got a 55mm f3.5 micro-Nikkor from 1977. Basically you need Ai (as manufactured from around then, or modded by Nikon or a 3rd party) or later. There are a few other wierd and wonderful exceptions on a couple of pages in the manual.
With anything like a D40/40x/60/3000 or 5000 you need AF-G (which have a Silent Wave Motor within the lens), Sigma HSM, or similar. Older stuff works, manual focus and no built in metering.
Was security_geek thinking of AF-D, where you are without AF on those cameras, but they work as intended on D50/80/90/100/200/300 and Fuji S5, to name a few, because there is a motor in the body.
On some of those, you can dial in the focal length and max aperture and get matrix metering, EXIF data on 30+ year old lenses.

Got to agree, lens quality and sensor quality /size (separation of the photosites reduces bleed) are central.

Pixel count is a factor when cropping and, all things being equal, only becomes an issue when you're produces large size prints - this gives the idea though it talks about magazine printing:

www.design215.com/tool...pixels.php - Note the minimal gain in terms of print dimensions between 6mp and 12mp

Great link labrum! BZ on finding it, just the thing I was looking for as I give lectures on photography to collages. As for MBs they are misleading its the DPi thats the major factor - Newspapers will not print anything less than 200DPI because the quality is not there, magazine only print at 300DPI. Some cameras give big files but once you check the Image Size you find its 93cm x 50cm at 98DPi - sounds a big image and in terms of size you could print a A3 size from it but the quality will be low due to a low DPi - to get a decent looking print from the file you need to reduce it down to say 22cm x 17cm and up the DPI to 300.
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Computers identify the image 72dpi.

Remember sending a image to a mag a while back in the days of being really thick on digi photography. Nothing has changed!!

Anyways it was a low image size they required it larger but no could do with deleting the image from the cam. They printed it and I won software. I often think if I had sent a large image could they have sold it on with presenting me with software. It would have looked good on a Cheshire calendar.

Anybody in the know on how to make a cheap calendar for Christmas?

Sold a Christmas pic on a royalty basis to a greetings card company in the USA, one guy down South London offered fifty quid to date over the last few years it has earned six hundred quid. One of those timeless photos they are called. I often wonder what these top photo people are earning from royalties and how can I sell more!!!!!!!
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For the same price as a brand new Volvo C60 you could have something else Swedish.
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www.trams.co.uk/html/p...4d_60.html

probably will not make you a better photographer but will make you a prize target for muggers when you pose with it slung round yer neck
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Well guys im not going to find a better offer than this you think ?

www.pixmania.co.uk/uk/...ePromo=oui

I have looked at everything, ranging from second hand, to buying it all seperate, and it still worked out more than this.

Price is very good Daffy but you need to be aware that Pixamania often sell grey market cameras i.e. they come with European rather than UK Nikon guarantees and Nikon a couple of years ago wouldn't repair under European warranty in the UK (same with US stock); I don't know if the situation has changed but it would be worth checking out with both Nikon and Pixamania before buying.

Also there are some reports about poor consumer service from Pixamania on forums..

Ok will do mate, thanks for the heads up, im going to search more in to it as it does seem too good to be true.

The Argos catalogue cheapest is the Sony cx230 with 18-55mm lens
£369

Don't forget you will need a memory card --4gb is about £20 and also
see what batteries it needs aswell . My Pentax uses lithuim and they aint cheap .
Carry case ----
price of other lenses ---- if available -- the 200mm lens I recommend a tripod for it !!

Happy hunting -----try ebay some good deals on there but watch out for imports !!

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Depends on what you want to do with the 200mm. Sports get a monopod, wildlife/landscape tripod.

Yours Aye,

Oberon
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