Using a 50mm lens from the 1960s is not going to have much of a noticeable difference in sharpness, color accuracy, vignetting, chromatic aberration, or any other lens characteristic than had you used a brand new 50mm made yesterday. They perfected the optical formulas of their primes over half a century ago. Nikon has made some of the best lenses of the 20th and 21st centuries. In fact, I’d argue that since you could swap most of the lenses with any Nikon body in my collection, the optical quality of each image would be identical, regardless of which body that lens was attached to. Since the lens usually has a greater impact on the outcome of a photograph than the body, each of the three models here could have shot any of the images below. Ken Rockwell has one of the best guides with visual explanations, so if you’d like to know more, I recommend reading his article. I won’t get into the nuances of which lenses are compatible with which bodies as there are already many excellent articles written by other people which explain this.
Sure, there have been revisions to the mount that have confusing names like Non-Ai, Ai, Ai-S, AF, and AF-S, and not every lens is fully interchangeable with every body, but they usually can be used. One of the hallmark features of every Nikon SLR since the first Nikon F in 1959, is that Nikon has continued to use the same Nikon F-mount the entire time. Unlike other camera reviews where I show a gallery of images shot with each respective camera at the end of each review, I am doing something different here and putting the gallery at the beginning. I’ve done ‘three-fer’ reviews in the past so I thought it might be more fun (and easier) to write one review about three different Nikons from three different decades, the 70s, 80s, and the 90s.
#Nikon f90x ken full#
Everyone already knows how great the pro-level Nikon F1-6s or the popular pro-sumer models like the FM2 and FE2 are, yet the EM and N80 don’t get near as much time in the limelight, so I felt compelled to share my thoughts on those models.Īs my Nikon collection grows, I find that I have more and more models that are worthy of review, but what do I say? And how? I already mentioned I struggle writing full reviews for Nikon cameras, so I thought I should pick three less common models and do a single review of all three. When I do manage to find the words to review a Nikon product, it’s been one of their lesser loved models like the Nikon EM from 1979 or the N80 from 2000.
Another reason is simply that so many other people have reviewed Nikon products over the years, I find it difficult to add anything that hasn’t already been said countless times. There are a couple of reasons for this, one is that my closeness to the brand causes me to struggle to find the words to review Nikon cameras in an unbiased and informative manner. So, it might seem peculiar to hear that Nikon cameras are my least favorite to write reviews for. (no need for pin 3 ! RX/TX/GND are sufficient.) ContactĮverything under docs/ are under their own and out of the scope of the utils.Įverything under ext/ are external libraries not packaged that we uses.Nikon is the brand of camera I am most fond of, and the one I regularly shoot in my everyday life. The 10 pin connector exposes serial, 1200bps 8n1 with 9600bps negotiation possible.įront view from the camera, you need to wire pin 5 and pin 4 to TX/RX and pin 6 (or 7) to GND, directly to a FTDI and that's it. You don't need the Nikon DataLink cards, they were designed for old Sharp Organizers. 11:47:17 INFO src/nikonDatalink.cpp:36: Starting session.ġ1:47:17 INFO src/nikonDatalink.cpp:133: libserialport version: 0.1.1ġ1:47:17 INFO src/nikonDatalink.cpp:134: Port name: /dev/ttyUSB0ġ1:47:17 INFO src/nikonDatalink.cpp:135: Description: FT232R USB UART - A50285BIġ1:47:17 INFO src/nikonDatalink.cpp:169: Identifying camera.ġ1:47:17 INFO src/nikonDatalink.cpp:170: Sending wakeup string.ġ1:47:17 INFO src/nikonDatalink.cpp:181: Sending nikon inquiry string.ġ1:47:19 INFO src/nikonDatalink.cpp:181: Sending nikon inquiry string.ġ1:47:19 INFO src/nikonDatalink.cpp:57: Camera is a N90s/F90xġ1:47:19 INFO src/nikonDatalink.cpp:644: Triggering shutterġ1:47:19 INFO src/nikonDatalink.cpp:79: Ending to the cameras