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Where to put your V1 hotshoe cover: Where to put your V1 hotshoe cover? Photo Gallery by John Ewing at pbase.com

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Something to do with this? https://nikoneurope-en.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/52326

Did a bit of pixel-peeking on PBase. Result: ordered one from Amazon for 260 €, currently waiting while it does a fandango across Europe in the perplexing mitts of DHL. Here's the best of the galleries that helped the decision: nikonj1 Photo Gallery by AndreasE at pbase.com

Taking all the above into consideration, I took the beastie out in bright sunlight yesterday and got a couple of acceptable shots. Nothing startling, but good enough for a PAD on PBase. The camera is OK given adequate light and no challenges - i.e. when shot like a compact. Considering the...

Certainly, but as you say high-capacity photosites give you more latitude. I just hadn't expected them to be so small on the EP3. For a static subject I'd use stabilization, but IS doesn't freeze subject motion.

Yeah. One of the early shots I took was under heavy cloud with a bright band on the horizon. I metered on the band, aiming for glowering velvety clouds above and dark land beneath. The clouds weren't bad, but the heavily shadows in the foreground looked as if they had died and decomposed a week...

Here's a detail of an E-P3 shot alongside one from the G12: There's not a lot in it, but I find the G12 shot rather more subtle in the toning - i.e. the better DR is showing through. This could be due to the somewhat fierce default NR in the Oly, though.

Interesting answers... thanks, all. Luke, your shots are something of an education. Maybe I am being too hard on it. On the DSLRs I often underexpose by a couple of stops to allow a higher shutter speed, then bump up the exposure in ACR. There just isn't the latitude in this sensor. In...

Well, that has happened more or less automatically. But tell me this, if you have one: how do you get a clean image out of it?

I was given an E-P3 last Christmas, and since then virtually every shot I have taken has been a test shot. The image quality just isn't there. It barely (and only occasionally) measures up to my Canon G-12 and never to my Nikon DSLRs, certainly not the D300s but not even the D40. OK, it might...

Agree with Spinyman: the first pic is tremendous, the other two are great. A question: Just how frustrating is the P&S aspect? For the small size and the good sensor I'd be prepared to sacrifice some control, but I would like be able to coerce the thing into obeying me without spending half...

There was one of these on my Amazon wish-list, but for some reason - not, I hope, unconnected with my upcoming birthday - it has disappeared. How very nice! Nice, too, to see such a positive series of crits. Jollifies one no end. Ta!

Yes, both E-P3 and G12 have that. Haven't tried the SLRs yet. Think I'll sell the thing.

The Fotodiox arrived and it's fine. A wee bit stiff on the adapter/lens flange, but nothing serious. The lenses certainly aren't going to wobble about. Now I'm having fun rediscovering not just my old lenses but the macro rings, converters and Cokin filters I had back then. I even have an...

I noticed the odd DCR article cropping up on DPR lately, and wondered if they'd been gobbled by Amazon and merged. It seems that the answer is a bit simpler. I'm glad that Jeff is still active. In this biz we need as many different views as possible.

There are several drawbacks to these things: - there's a delay between shooting and the transfer beginning: you have to leave both tablet and camera switched on for a minute or two. Ouch, my battery. - upload from the tablet to the Eye-Fi Center site seems to be unavoidable - every shot on...

I recycled a 12-year-old Tamrac 5201 belt/shoulder bag that still held my old Oly E-100RS. I also have an old Cullmann backpack with space for a tablet, and if I pull the camera insert out it fits nicely into a Carradura saddlebag on the bike. Kit is E-P3-based.

Of course, the card being inside a metal camera body and slap up against a LiIon battery can't help. Maybe it'd go faster if I took the battery out. Oh, wait...

I just installed and hooked up to a Sandisk 8 Gb Eye-Fi card, which pairs successfully with my Android tablet. This took considerably more BS&T than it takes to read, but now all my idiotic test shots are gobbling up tablet memory like fun. Funny thing, though. The tablet contains a WiFi...

My first 35mm had no strap eyelets, so the case was the only way of carrying it hands-free. The top/front was also rivetted to the bottom half, which meant that if you wanted to take a pic in portrait format you had to use a finger or two to keep it from flopping in front of the lens. Take the...

The Fotodiox is what I have my eye on. There's a good YT review of it too, so I guess that's where I'll head. Thanks for the input, both of you.

Yes, that 17mm 1.8 is tempting, but the budget has taken a whack in the back of the knee so it'll be a while yet. I'm going with an OM adapter next: I have the old Zuiko 50 mm 1.8 and a 24-45 zoom from Soligor that I used to have a lot of fun with. A wee bit of manual work won't hurt my...

Thanks again for this. The WA converter hasn't been off the lens since I opened the box. It gives a 22mm equiv that I find very attractive.

Looking at the range of OM/µ4/3 adapters on the market, the price range baffles me: from under £10 on eBay to well over £100 for a Novoflex. Photodiox's offering looks like a reasonable compromise, but I'm in France, it's in the US and while the postage is cheap the delivery period of up to 20...

Interesting idea - I must try that. I have a couple of old Leica OVFs that would do fine. Nice to hear someone talking in ASA, too.

Very interesting... I have a bunch of Nikon kit, including a very nice Tokina f/4 12-24mm. Your pics encourage me to seek an adaptor. Thanks!

Actually, the idea of dropping the 50mm into the body was only a passing thought. In fact, I'd be chary of using any 1950s lens on a digital body without first giving it a thorough service: there can be all kinds of crud in collection lenses. They really need to be stripped down all the way...

Thought of that, but I have a hammer. :smile:

Thanks for the great advice, everyone - just the kind of thing I was after. Poking through our collection just now I came across a 1950s hot-shoe Acoll viewfinder for Leica-style cameras. It's for an f=35mm lens. It even has parallax adjustment. With the 4:3 crop factor it should be fine...

Thanks, all. I do have a liking for wide angle and most of my formative shooting was done with primes: in the 60s you took whatever Kodak had glued into the lens cell, but even in the 80s I did most of my stuff with a 24, a 50 and a doubler. Still got them all, too. Well, just one of the...

I have an E-P3 + 14-42mm on the way for Christmas. My birthday looms mid-January, and seems an excellent opportunity to build a small battery of lenses. My shooting habits flip from street to landscape, the latter mainly during long-distance cycling expeditions. I'd be delighted to receive...

My wife bought me a set of Zeikos G12 accessories last Christmas. The only bit I've found useful is the USB/SD card adaptor. The w/a lens produces circular images only and the magnification of the 1.4x tele is so meagre it's not worth the trouble of mounting. I haven't bothered to look at...

One of my favourites: I call this one Going Places Nikon 5900, handheld And the best one I've done to date: The view from Loewenstein Castle in the Vosges du Nord If you want to wallow in it at 4284x1000, click the above. There's another castle in it.

Sure, keep it up. We are currently stricken by injury, flu and concentrated extract of winter, but I will be a little more reactive once the current unpleasantness has passed.

Ah... my heap of concrete wasn't quite so big, but did the same thing, more or less. Early 80s, excellent local cooking and cheeses; and Sancerre just down the road - pig heaven. Hah! I just found one of the restaurants we used to eat in. It's now a pizzeria.

I am an agëd whizz-kid computer programmer from the heroic days of punched tape, air-conditioned rooms and gee-lookit-all-the-lights-and-switchy-things. I even had a hexadecimal abacus. Alas, the kid grows old, and the whizz turns to a low buzz in the cochlea that interferes most damnably with...

One way street: This way to the dead centre of town

My compacts travel in pockets, and are continually getting thumbprints on the LCD. This hasn't bothered me in the past - a wipe with whatever was handy usually shifted the crud adequately - but the G12 is so obliging that I feel quite protective towards it. So I've been and gone and bought a GGS...

Hi BB, Well, the snow was coming thick and fast at the top of the col (which isn't much of a col, but in midwinter it's enough for me) but down below it was rain. The ride was actually great fun - I have good winter gear and lights, and I was warm all the way. Since digital came out I've...

My bike, at the Col de Goetzenberg on Tuesday: Panasonic FT1, full auto (it doesn't do much else) Interesting: I had the flash on to bring out the snowflakes, and you can see from the trails that the FT1 isn't having any of this rear-curtain stuff. Shame. And another from several years ago...

What I'm really after is what percentage of your photographs never gets beyond hard disk, CD/DVD, or one of the photographic sites on the web. So photo books would count as prints - and I think they're a great idea. I have umpteen pictures I would love to print, but like Andy I lack the...

That looks great - something I rather fancy having a go at myself. Thanks for the idea.

WRT processing, I import into directory trees names by make of camera, month, model and file format, e.g. D:\Nikon\201005\D300s\NEF or D:\Canon\201101\G12\RAW. I import using Windows Explorer, and process using Photoshop. On the Internet, I've been a member of PBase for years, and have a bunch...

Take heart, because you may yet acquire your Leica lens, whereas I will have to drop mine first. Despite its horrendous "quality", this goes against the grain.

I'm doing a little research for an article, and I need to find out what percentage of finished digital photos are printed, either by the photographer or by an outside lab. By "finished" I mean pictures that require no (more) editing, and exclude those that get thrown away. I'd be much...

But the cheaper the camera, the better you have to be... at marketing, anyway: "No, I really wanted the subject to be out of focus!"

Well might you laugh, BB, but I am now stymied from buying the pukka Canon accessories that were on my misbegotten Amazon wish-list all the time! :mad:

Well, I was short of the mark when I first posted this. I wrote only of books. Since then I have had a birthday and one who loves me dearly presented me with "The Ultimate Canon G12 Accessory Kit", which had a strong smell of cheap machine-oil and the name Zeikos emblazoned on it. She has three...