NikonGear Revival GetTogether September2015

[John Geerts]

I haven't touched the CPU, the lens looked brand new when I received it.  Just clicked it on in manual mode and it worked like any Ai or Ai-S.  Didn't notice a different battery behavior on the D700 and Df. Perhaps the pin-out is removed?  I am not really that technical.     If the CPU-operation is simple, yes please.

[Bjørn Rørslett]

I have spare parts with me, so at least we can take a closer look.

When I got my 80/2.8 AF (many years ago), it short-circuited the battery of my D2X within a few hours. The reason is that Nikon has changed the positions of the power and grounding pins for the modern lenses. If the CPU and contact block are replaced all is well except for the AF, which cannot work on a modern Nikon.

[John Geerts]

Thanks for the offer and information.

On the Net is hardly any information about this lens (with regard to field-experience) apart from your review. But it's a chapter of the 'Nikkor - The Thousand and One Nights'  http://www.nikkor.com/story/0023/

[Jan Anne]

I was secretly wondering how you would get all of that in JA's Beemer, but turns out, you don't 

Getting all Bjørns lenses in a Beemer would be a challenge indeed, luckily I have a Bimmer with room for Bjørn and all the lenses he can carry

Probably only a handful of BMW owners will get this joke, for the rest of us:
- Bimmer: BWM car
- Beemer: BMW motorcycle
- Beamer: Projector used to project images or movies on a white screen or wall

Its like saying your Nikon E lens is a Nikkor

[HCS]

Getting all Bjørns lenses in a Beemer would be a challenge indeed, luckily I have a Bimmer with room for Bjørn and all the lenses he can carry

Probably only a handful of BMW owners will get this joke, for the rest of us:
- Bimmer: BWM car
- Beemer: BMW motorcycle
- Beamer: Projector used to project images or movies on a white screen or wall

Its like saying your Nikon E lens is a Nikkor

I have the feeling there is a lot to learn for me over the next couple of days, not just photography 

I didn't know that, so i offer my sincere apologies. I am not one of the in-crowd 

[Andrea B.]

...oh lord woncha buy me a mersaydeez benz...my friends all drive bimmers...I must make amends....

[Jakov Minić]

One is El Presidente!
And we will see how the BMW does on the German Autobahn against the modest old car from Inglostad!

[Jan Anne]

And we will see how the BMW does on the German Autobahn against the modest old car from Inglostad!

260 last time I checked 

Something tells me however that your S8 drives a lot more relaxed above 200 than my tiny Bimmer which becomes quite a handful at those speeds

[Bjørn Rørslett]

Plus the poor passenger feels not that at ease ... been there before ....

[Erik Lund]

a small delay in air traffic but landed safely in Amsterdam and was greeted in Deen Haag by Jakov who took me to see a strange performance, the same movements repeated again and again, looked like great fun and for sure was fun to shoot 

[Erik Lund]

And here a portrait of Jakov shot of and with.... the Heligon - captured with 58mm 1.4 D3X

[Bjørn Rørslett]

Just landed in NL and picked up at Schipol by Jan Anne. A few more morning coffee cups and I'm ready to join the throng

[Jakov Minić]

Erik, I love that bowling image! Really cool!!!

[John Geerts]

Super-shots, Erik.  A kind of Dutch inspiration?   

[Erik Lund]

Thanks 

I will have to work more on the dutch colors I see...