$10 Paper weight?

[phillipb]

Hi Guys,
In a moment of weakness, I put a bid for this item on ebay and won it.
I was the only bidder at $9.99





Never mind the quality, question is will it even work on the D70 in manual?

[boxerboy]

Ripped off! Apparently birddog can do these for $6.50.

[phillipb]

Birddog wouldn't be seen dead with one of these.

[Onyx]

Interesting - there seems to be a variable/selectable aperture on the unit...

[lukeo]

Soligor ... german .. have a 1970's 300mm soligor F4 lens here for pentax m42 screw mount. Works.

That adaptor will work with your nikon d70, however it will be manual focus and you lose metering (all manual focus lens do on the d70), so all you will need to do is use the histogram on the back to gauge a good setting.

2x converter's tend to add noise (speckles) to your pictures.

The aperture ring is because the converter stops down itself, it has no link to the lense's aperature ring.

meh it will work and for $10 bucks it will at least give you some more reach albeit manual everything.

[birddog114]

It may not work with the D70 or D100/ D2h, I had a similar one but not the same brand and LCD came up with Fee, and the D70 hung, so I had to reset the D70 and never put it on again, picked it up from the Sunday Market for $3.00, don't know the fault is from the TC or something else, not dare to test again.
What lens are you going to use with this converter? 200-400VR or 300Vr?
Will be great if it works.

[gstark]

Onyx,

Interesting - there seems to be a variable/selectable aperture on the unit...

I'm afraid not.

It's simply the reference mechanism and transfer for the viewfinder display and in-camera meter. The metal finger connects to the aperture indexing mechanism on the lens (this is an F mount adaptor) and as you set the aperture on your lens, that settings are transferred to the camera, and visible through a small prism mechanism in the base of the pentaprism housing through to the viewfinder.

[gstark]

That adaptor will work with your nikon d70, however it will be manual focus and you lose metering (all manual focus lens do on the d70), so all you will need to do is use the histogram on the back to gauge a good setting.

Actually, it probably won't. It seems to be an old F mount, and there's a couple of edges that the old F mount has that prevent it from properly mounting on the D70. Might be ok if it's AI compatible, but this doesn't look to be the case.

I would be wary of damaging the D70's body.

The aperture ring is because the converter stops down itself, it has no link to the lense's aperature ring.

Without examining the unit, again, I don't think so. The camera/lens comnbination this was designed for - something like my FTn - used the finger to transmit the lens's aperture setting to the camera for metering information.

On this converter, the finger that we can see would transfer this information from the lens to the converter, which in turn transmits it to the camera, as well as providing a replacement source for the viewfinder display of the current aperture setting.

[Killakoala]

It's a great antique though

[phillipb]

It's a great antique though

I like antiques, I have a little collection of them, only problem is I don't have a Nikon antique camera to put this onto.

[birddog114]

It's a great antique though

I like antiques, I have a little collection of them, only problem is I don't have a Nikon antique camera to put this onto.

go to some Sunday markets and you'll surprised, have to get in early otherwise all good stuff gone by the sunrise.

[phillipb]

Which markets do you recomend birddog?

[birddog114]

Which markets do you recomend birddog?

I started from balmain, Leichardt, Campsie.

[phillipb]

I received the package today so I tried it on my N80 with the old tamron MF lens, no problems, worked in manual ok. I tried it on the D70 with 70-300g, no problems either.
The only problem I can see is if I try to bring it to one of the mini meets I probably get kicked out and barred for life.

[Nnnnsic]

Never... I bring film cameras quite often.