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From: Michael Schnell on 29 Dec 2009 11:11
Bruce wrote:
> All AF Nikkors will work in all exposure modes. You need to focus
> them manually, that's all.
>

Quite impossible with Sport events (here: Horse-Sport).

-Michael
From: J. Clarke on 29 Dec 2009 11:37
Michael Schnell wrote:
> Bruce wrote:
>> All AF Nikkors will work in all exposure modes. You need to focus
>> them manually, that's all.
>>
>
> Quite impossible with Sport events (here: Horse-Sport).

So how _did_ photographers shoot "Horse-Sport" before there was such a thing
as autofocus?



From: Apteryx on 29 Dec 2009 15:53
Michael Schnell wrote:
> Paul Furman wrote:
>> The D90 it replaces is the same. Nothing new here. The motor is out to
>> make the body smaller & more affordable. If you want a focus motor,
>> get a D300, D200, D80, D70, D50, D3 or D700.
>
> I suppose the future non-pro bodies (Dnn and Dnnnn) might have no AF
> motor, while the pro Models (Dn) will have it.
>
> But what about the semi-pros (Dnnn), e.g. a potential successor to the
> D700 ?
>
> -Michael

That is the only thing that worries me about the news. I am hoping the
D400 (replacement for the D300) will still have a focus motor.

Apteryx
From: Bruce on 29 Dec 2009 16:02
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:11:22 +0100, Michael Schnell
<mschnell_at_bschnell_dot_de(a)aol.com> wrote:
>Bruce wrote:
>> All AF Nikkors will work in all exposure modes. You need to focus
>> them manually, that's all.
>>
>
>Quite impossible with Sport events (here: Horse-Sport).


Of course!

No-one ever photographed sports before autofocus lenses became
available, did they.

Fool. ;-)

From: Neil Harrington on 1 Jan 2010 11:19

"Rich" <none(a)nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:laSdncO-v6GxKKrWnZ2dnUVZ_vhi4p2d(a)giganews.com...
> Chris H <chris(a)phaedsys.org> wrote in
> news:4x1YK4F2nyNLFALy(a)phaedsys.demon.co.uk:
>
>> In message <c0695b63-992a-460a-bd61-d13498137dda(a)e37g2000yqn.googlegroup
>> s.com>, RichA <rander3127(a)gmail.com> writes
>>>With some manufacturers even providing adapters (Panasonic) to use
>>>other brand lenses (Leica) on their products and others allowing focus
>>>confirmation and image stabilization with any lens brand, Nikon seems
>>>to be going the opposite way, making it as hard to use legacy Nikon
>>>lenses on new products as possible. Note the specs on this new one.
>>>No AF motor. Which means it likely won't meter with the old manual
>>>lenses either. Only newer Nikkors will function.
>>
>> Given that Nikon have used the same mount for 50 years and AFAIK all the
>> Nikon Lenses fit all Nikon Cameras. They have a greater or lesser amount
>> of electrical capability and are only a couple of exceptions where it
>> should not be done.
>>
>> Nikon have such a wide range of lenses and are brining out new ones
>> (with VR, greater ranges, faster, lighter etc) to work with the newer
>> bodies I am not sure you need full compatibility with all the Nikon
>> lenses of the last century.
>>
>
> Need? No. Desire? Yes. It's a "class" thing. Own a D300 or better, no
> problem, own a lesser Nikon, you are prevented from using 90% of the glass
> they've ever produced.

The vast majority of which you would probably never be using on a new Nikon
anyway.

But there's actually an advantage to this arrangement that you are
overlooking, or perhaps unaware of. I'm assuming here that the new D7000
will have the same electronic rangefinder that the D60 and D3000 have (which
seems a safe assumption). This works very well, and since it does not
require a CPU lens to work it should make most of the old manual focus
lenses much more useful than they have been on earlier Nikon DSLRs.

Personally I think abandoning the out-of-date and increasingly useless AF
motor in the camera body is a good idea. It will reduce size, weight and
cost. I have a few of the older lenses myself, the 50/1.8, the 85/1.8 and
the 10.5 fisheye (which I think was the last Nikkor that required the
mechanical coupling), but I also have bodies up to the D80 and D200 to suit
them, which I expect to keep for many years at least, maybe forever.

I have no doubt that Nikon will keep making bodies like the D200, D300 and
its successors with the mechanical coupling, for those whose older lenses
are so important to them that they simply must have it. And older Nikons
with it will still be available used, and even new or near-new, in very
large numbers for a very long time to come. There are still brand-new D100s
showing up on eBay from time to time, and that was by today's standards a
relatively low-production camera.

There is no good reason to keep burdening new buyers of moderate-priced,
enthusiast-level cameras with an obsolete type of mechanism that the
overwhelming majority of them will never have any use for. I think the D7000
as described sounds like a wonderful idea and I am very much looking forward
to it.


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