BF Hammer
Senior Member
I lost my brother to cancer recently. He had been heavily disabled tied to oxygen use for about 15 years. But before that he was a more active hobby photographer. I believe he was attempting to establish a niche for himself as an erotic photographer for a while to help fund stuff. I at least have found the business cards he made and there is a portfolio.
So I was the natural selection to take his photo gear. I think there is some darkroom equipment yet to discover, but it may have been the victim of a basement flooding years ago. But there is 2 SLR bodies and some lenses.
Nikon N70
Nikon N8008
AF Nikkor 35-70mm f/3.3-4.5
AF Nikkor 70-210mm f/4-5.6
MF Nikkor 50mm f/2
Promaster 28-200mm f/3.8-5.6 (this is D-type autofocus)
A pretty cheap looking 2x teleconverter with no AI connectors or AF screw
SB-24 TTL speedlight
A cheap Vivitar speedlight
Nikon SC-17 remote speedlight cord
a pair of lightweight speedlight tripods
The N70 had film loaded and the Promaster lens installed. I had to buy new CR123 batteries just to find out where the film was advanced to. Only 2 exposures on it. I intended to shoot the roll out and process it, right until I misfired while trying out the autofocus, then accidentally rewound the film when I was trying to follow the manual for resetting to factory defaults. In my defense my film SLR is a 1970's Minolta XD-11 which requires you to hand-crank the film to rewind.
I will have it processed anyhow, maybe next week. There are also 2 unopened rolls of Kodak B/W 400 speed film with an expiration of 2007 printed on the boxes. I'll try shooting them, but might wait for warmer weather on that.
As I read things online, I think I find the N8008 to be the more interesting SLR. After trying to operate it, I agree that the N70 has a weird interface. If this was last fall, I would have welcomed the 3 autofocus lenses for my infrared-conversion D600 I bought about then. But I purchased a Nikon 28-105mm that is working well on that body. I will try the 35-70mm out though, it's rather compact in comparison. I already am over-equipped in speedlights with a SB-600 and SB-400 available, and I rarely mount them on a camera as it is.
So anybody have any thoughts on this stuff? Don't actually know, but I think the 2 Nikkor autofocus zooms are basically 1990's kit lenses. SB-24 was a pretty nice speedlight for old TTL metering systems. Would I choose to use a 50mm f/2 when I have a nice 50mm f/1.8G lens already? Likely no.
So I was the natural selection to take his photo gear. I think there is some darkroom equipment yet to discover, but it may have been the victim of a basement flooding years ago. But there is 2 SLR bodies and some lenses.
Nikon N70
Nikon N8008
AF Nikkor 35-70mm f/3.3-4.5
AF Nikkor 70-210mm f/4-5.6
MF Nikkor 50mm f/2
Promaster 28-200mm f/3.8-5.6 (this is D-type autofocus)
A pretty cheap looking 2x teleconverter with no AI connectors or AF screw
SB-24 TTL speedlight
A cheap Vivitar speedlight
Nikon SC-17 remote speedlight cord
a pair of lightweight speedlight tripods
The N70 had film loaded and the Promaster lens installed. I had to buy new CR123 batteries just to find out where the film was advanced to. Only 2 exposures on it. I intended to shoot the roll out and process it, right until I misfired while trying out the autofocus, then accidentally rewound the film when I was trying to follow the manual for resetting to factory defaults. In my defense my film SLR is a 1970's Minolta XD-11 which requires you to hand-crank the film to rewind.
As I read things online, I think I find the N8008 to be the more interesting SLR. After trying to operate it, I agree that the N70 has a weird interface. If this was last fall, I would have welcomed the 3 autofocus lenses for my infrared-conversion D600 I bought about then. But I purchased a Nikon 28-105mm that is working well on that body. I will try the 35-70mm out though, it's rather compact in comparison. I already am over-equipped in speedlights with a SB-600 and SB-400 available, and I rarely mount them on a camera as it is.
So anybody have any thoughts on this stuff? Don't actually know, but I think the 2 Nikkor autofocus zooms are basically 1990's kit lenses. SB-24 was a pretty nice speedlight for old TTL metering systems. Would I choose to use a 50mm f/2 when I have a nice 50mm f/1.8G lens already? Likely no.
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