Nikon is backwards

Tony Cooper wrote:
On Sun, 27 Jan 2019 18:19:11 -0600, Savageduck
wrote:

Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Sun, 27 Jan 2019 22:52:38 -0000, newshound wrote:

On 27/01/2019 22:32, Commander Kinsey wrote:
https://www.nickcarverphotography.co...-is-backwards/

Now I know it's not just me that's annoyed by this. In fact more than
annoyed, I once BROKE a Nikon camera I'd rented, costing me £200, simply
by trying to attach the lens in the correct clockwise manner. The
rental company was not amused.

Agree with you about the bayonet, but FWIW the Fuji zoom goes the same
way as the Nikon. Clockwise is the positive direction, going out.

Never had a Fuji DSLR, but I won't be buying Fuji since two compact
cameras I bought have nowhere near the MP they claim.


Which compact cameras, and you know this how?

My "car camera" is a Fuji FinePix F600EXR, and it's the worst buying
decision I've made in the area of photography. I bought it when there
were not as many choices of compacts that have manual control and
shoot RAW as there are now. And, I made the mistake of buying a
camera online without handling it in person. The local stores didn't
have enough of a selection.


Another discontinued camera with technology Fujifilm has long abandoned.

Back when that camera was available there were much better compacts
available. I would have suggested a Canon G12.

The zoom is jerky and extremely difficult to set to frame a photo.
Given enough time, I can frame the scene but that makes it worthless
for street photography. OK for a static scene, but that's not the
type of photo I go after. Shutter response is slow so any moving
target is blind luck. It's not good at low-light, but the RAW frame
can sometimes be rescued.


You chose the wrong tool for the job. You should have got better advise, or
done some deeper research.

The reviews for the camera painted a good picture, but they were about
image quality. If I photograph a tree, I get a very sharp image. I'm
just not interested in the scenes that the Fuji is good at.


So, what did DxO have to say about it? ;-)

Back in 2011-2012 I doubt if I would have considered a Fujifilm.

Our daughter is going to Greece in March, and doesn't want to take her
Nikon DSLR. She'd like to get a compact for the trip. She borrowed my
Fuji for a couple of days and decided she'd be better off with a cheap
P&S. No RAW, but she'd rather have an easy-to-use P&S without that,
so she's doing the right thing and checking out cameras in stores that
she can handle before buying.

There are compacts which shoot RAW if she looks further.


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Regards,
Savageduck