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A fierce predator, the Ford Contour hides in the bushes, waiting to pounce on its prey. Oblivious to its imminent fate, along comes a hapless Honduh… This is no ordinary Contour. Stock, the Contour came with either an inline four cylinder motor, or a V6. This one had the latter, but now...

With CPU lenses, the camera wants to control the lens' aperture setting. It does so via a lever on the back of the lens. In order for the camera to have this control, the aperture ring, if present, needs to be set to the smallest aperture. As it happens, I had occasion just a short time ago...

Yes, that's correct. This is how the aperture setting was communicated to pre-AI Nikon cameras. The camera has a pin which engages this shoe, and allows the camera to detect the aperture setting on the lens. Nikon introduced the AI method in 1978, which used a different means of coupling the...

This is about two inches in diameter. So why am I posting it in this “MICRO flowers” thread? Look up pseudanthium. If this were a contest to see who can post the smallest flowers, then with this picture, I'd be way ahead of everyone else so far.

Oxalis

Pyracantha

I guess I might as well chime in with my remaining ancient lens: I don't use this lens very much, and when I do, I'm not usually thinking much about bokeh. When I use this lens, I expect a lot of depth of field, and I expect most that is in the picture to be in focus. Just now, I used...

RE: My 85-205mm ƒ3.8 Vivitar… I'm not sure this lens has a very flat plane of focus. I know that there are also some distortions that creep in, toward the edges of the image, at larger apertures. Anyway, prompted by your “Show us more…” request, I just took this lens out and took a bunch...

For me, it has to be this one, the 50mm ƒ1.4 lens that I originally got with my F2. Aside from the 18-55mm “kit lens” that came with my D3200, the only other lenses I have to use with it are this 50mm, a 28mm ƒ3.5 Nikkor, and an 85-205mm ƒ3.8 Vivitar zoom lens, all about equally ancient (c...

I took this picture at 22:38, and regretfully posted it in several places along with the comment that needing to get up early the following morning, I could not stay up to watch the eclipse. I then ended up staying up to watch the eclipse until some time within totality; and skipping school...

FoggyMorningAtNCE.jpg by bob_blaylock, on Flickr

Perhaps there's really nothing. What does that leave? The other part of the manual that I quoted indicates “Automatic ‘X’ speed setting and ready indicator in viewfinder.” I don't seem to get these two features. I know that with the built-in flash ready to go, the D3200 limits its speed...

A few days ago, I happened to spot a Sunpak auto 2000 DZ at a thrift store, and figured I ought to be able to use it with my D3200. Alas, I found it rather cryptic, and so did I find the manual I was able to download for it; though the one most enigmatic feature seemed to be well explained —...