Photography / Camera chat thread.

Originally Posted by Filipe M.

Hence the recommendation for having a couple of spares. I do believe the camera is worth the hassle, as the image quality and features are just brilliant.

Your other option is to get something that takes AA batteries (Canon A series, IIRC) and carry a travel charger with a couple of sets of rechargeables. The batteries themselves will carry more charge than a standard compact camera battery, and even if you find you run out of juice they are pretty easy to find everywhere. The cameras themselves might be slightly bulkier though, and probably not as good as the TZ series from Panny.

Had great experience with the TZ7 and upgraded to TZ10. Maybe it was my model but it could not cope very well in outdoor lighting and would often blow out areas (extreme over expose) never mind how careful you were. May have just been the one i had though!

Originally Posted by TC3

Had great experience with the TZ7 and upgraded to TZ10. Maybe it was my model but it could not cope very well in outdoor lighting and would often blow out areas (extreme over expose) never mind how careful you were. May have just been the one i had though!

That's weird, I tried a TZ7 for a while and it didn't do that with me... actually one of the areas I was very surprised at was precisely how well the metering handled funny contrast situations.

I'll see if I can borrow it back from my dad and have another play, now I'm intrigued...

[mr.anderson]

Originally Posted by jambo

Mr.Anderson: Looks like the last of the line "Nikon F Photomic FTn" I used this site to download manuals of my own Canon A-1 ~1978

mir.com

Jambo

Thanks for that Jambo, shall come in handy for sure.

[keith_d]

One final comment on the Nikon F. IIRC, Photomic heads are notorious for having the resistive track which senses the aperture position crack. So if the meter starts jumping around when you change the aperture on the lens you might have to use a separate lightmeter.

Keith.

Originally Posted by Filipe M.

That's weird, I tried a TZ7 for a while and it didn't do that with me... actually one of the areas I was very surprised at was precisely how well the metering handled funny contrast situations.

I'll see if I can borrow it back from my dad and have another play, now I'm intrigued...

The TZ7 was great and had good exposures. It was the TZ10 that had the problem.

Originally Posted by TC3

The TZ7 was great and had good exposures. It was the TZ10 that had the problem.

Oh right, that's more in line with what I experienced then

Following on from the Lumix posts, I have a TZ6 as my pocket camera and that exposes really well too. It's a cracking little camera and ace for those times when I can't be doing with lugging the D90 and all my stuff around with me (rare but it does happen)

On the D90, what are the shutter speed settings? cos i'm confused, going up from 1 sec is simples, but going down from 1 it then goes 1.3, 1.6, 2, 2.5, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 13, 15, 20, 25, 30, 40, 50, 60, 80, 100, 125, 160, 200, 250, 320, 400, 500, 640, 800, 1000, 1250, 1600, 2000, 2500, 3200, 4000/sec now the thousandth of a sec i get, but 1.3 1.6 i don't i guess it is tenths of a sec, but surely from 1 sec you would go 9 tenths 8- 6 tenths etc then to 100's then thous

Originally Posted by bluefishman

On the D90, what are the shutter speed settings? cos i'm confused, going up from 1 sec is simples, but going down from 1 it then goes 1.3, 1.6, 2, 2.5, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 13, 15, 20, 25, 30, 40, 50, 60, 80, 100, 125, 160, 200, 250, 320, 400, 500, 640, 800, 1000, 1250, 1600, 2000, 2500, 3200, 4000/sec now the thousandth of a sec i get, but 1.3 1.6 i don't i guess it is tenths of a sec, but surely from 1 sec you would go 9 tenths 8- 6 tenths etc then to 100's then thous

I bet that now I have read that post 3 times and tried to understand it, I am FAAAAAAAAAAAAR more confused than you!!! LOL!

the pro's will understand it, i hope, lol. mind you it don't really matter cos you keep turning the dial till you get the pic you want, just recon it's better if you understand these things, and at the mo i don't.