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<blockquote data-quote="Mediaman09" data-source="post: 58738" data-attributes="member: 9503">Thirty or forty years back, my dad bought his first 35mm Nikon and some lenses... which I kept all these years.&nbsp; They still look like new.I am currently experimenting with No. 486439 : 28mm f2.8 to_f22Its also my first time in manual mode, so I am a bit blind ; but its a great learning experience. Quick question which is currenetly frustrating me (I am putting down the camera now to pick up the guitar!).For manual lenses:&nbsp; Is it simply done on the lens itself?&nbsp;&nbsp; There is no visual indication of aperature on the screen.For AF/VR lenses :&nbsp; How do you change aperature!! I can of course easily set shutter speed with the mode dial, but I could have sworn I read once about needing to press the XXXX button to change aperature, but I cannot find that reference anymore. I know how I can go to Aperature, and change it there, and then go back to Manual. Is that how its done??</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mediaman09, post: 58738, member: 9503"] Thirty or forty years back, my dad bought his first 35mm Nikon and some lenses... which I kept all these years. They still look like new. I am currently experimenting with [B]No. 486439 : 28mm f2.8 to_f22 [/B] Its also my first time in manual mode, so I am a bit blind ; but its a great learning experience. Quick question which is currenetly frustrating me (I am putting down the camera now to pick up the guitar!). [U]For manual lenses:[/U] [B]Is it simply done on the lens itself? [/B]There is no visual indication of aperature on the screen. [U]For AF/VR lenses[/U] : How do you change aperature!! I can of course easily set shutter speed with the mode dial, but I could have sworn I read once about needing to press the XXXX button to change aperature, but I cannot find that reference anymore. I know how I can go to Aperature, and change it there, and then go back to Manual. Is that how its done?? [/QUOTE]

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