Df rides again!
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The last time I handled a Nikon body was in March; picking this up and setting it up happened 100% without manuals. Nikons have very good menus.
The first body I had in March was lousy compared to this one. That one had one totally shot battery -- couldn't hold a charge for 200 exposures! In this deal I got two Nikon batteries, and a (useless) battery grip.
This body is also in better condition: buttons like the AF/MF toggle stuck on the previous one, here everything is tiptop. The battery door is also tighter and doesn't leave a gap unlike the ex.
I also get the original box and paper manual -- yay! Those I usually like to take to bed with me -- not the box, the manual -- and browse around or just methodically read it cover to cover in 10-minute portions.
This has only 4k shutter actuations on it, unlike the 14k on the ex.
This even smells better!
For only 20 EUR more than the first one.
And
one thought about (D)SLRs from a RF shooter's perspective: I don't know exactly why it often is that rangefinder shooters shoot more often wide open than SLR shooters.
How I see, in theory it should be the other way around because with SLRs one sees everything wide open in all its bokehliciousness. Through the viewfinder I see things in f/1.8 and I get accustomed to things being at f/1.8. Then one can only get disappointed when the closed-down shots develop on the back screen. And when one suddenly uses the aperture preview button things are always so dim.
Kind of wish the viewing aperture could be changed using the menus from lens' maximum to f/2.8 or even f/4 to see more of the world. Outdoors, could be useful? Would also help with the rare times when the lens has focus shift.
On that note I am also waiting for my first manual lens to be ready to be picked up. Micro-Nikkor-P.C 55mm f/3.5. At f/3.5 I can shoot it wide open (and I often do that 100% of the time with my Heliar f/3.5).