A new (old) camera - Nikon F90X
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008I do have a habit of taking photos as many of you know, and since my D70 is dead and waiting to be fixed at the service centre, I got myself a cheap old film SLR on ebay. Mind you, it’s cheap but back in 1994 when this camera came out, it was the almost-pro amateur camera/pro’s backup body, much like what the D200 is today.
The worst thing about this camera is that there is no way to set the aperture on the body - you have to work around in Program mode if you have a G lens without the aperture ring.
The amazing thing is that my Tokina 12-24mm mounts on it and gives a full image at 18mm. Which is the equivalent of 12mm on digital. The top LCD also has a funky backlight like the ones you got on digital watches from the same era. The back LCD panel isn’t working because that’s actually a data back and not an integral part of the camera and needs its own batteries, which need replacing.
Pics or it didn’t happen:
The tiny 50mm lens in the corner is just there to stop the thing from tipping over like how it has in the last picture.
