D40 Nikonian

by Eddy

THERE is not much going on at the moment. The only thing possibly worth blogging about is the Nikon D40 DSLR camera purchase.

Here are a couple of pictures taken with it. (More are available on my Flickr photostream.)

Makinon 135mm f/2.8 #1

Tumble weed

Unmetered

The choice of the D40 was influenced mostly by the availability of lenses that are compatible with it. As a matter of fact, I now have three prime lenses (Makinon 135mm f/2.8, Nikon 50mm f/1.8, and Nikkor 50mm f/2) to complement the 18-55 kit lens. The lenses, all of them second-hand, require manual focus and do not allow in-camera metering, so I am shooting old school, using the rings to get subjects in focus and dialing in the exposure with shutter speed, ISO, and aperture settings. Which makes photography more fun in a way.

Eddy.



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