help:manual lens on nikon 8008s

Yang Zeng

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Oct 16, 1996, 3:00:00 AM10/16/96

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I am new to nikon. I inclined to use a manual Sigma 21-35 lens on
my nikon 8008s body. Could anyone tell me what kind of impact the
manual lens will have on it? WIll the matrix metering work? Does it
affect matrix balanced fill flash?

ANy input will be appreciated.

yang
yz...@nortel.com

thirdperson

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Oct 20, 1996, 3:00:00 AM10/20/96

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Yang Zeng wrote:
>
> I am new to nikon. I inclined to use a manual Sigma 21-35 lens on
> my nikon 8008s body. Could anyone tell me what kind of impact the
> manual lens will have on it? WIll the matrix metering work? Does it
> affect matrix balanced fill flash?
>

The 8008s will not matrix meter with manual focus lenses. Because of
that it will not do matrix balanced fill flash with those lenses. The
center-weighted meter will work fine; thus, you can do center-weighted
balanced fill-flash. The difference will probably be small. In theory,
the more sophisticated analysis of the ambient light provided by matrix
metering will provide more pleasing balanced fill-flash ratios than will
center-weighted metering, but in practice this is hard to see very
often. The key to all this is the "man/sun" symbol on the back of the
flash. If it shows solid you are in balanced fill flash mode, with
either matrix or center-weighted ambient metering (depending on the
camera setting). If the "man/sun" symbol is blinking or disappears you
are in standard flash mode. ( The camera makes no attempt to balance
flash to ambient, and thus usually there is too much exposure
contributed by the flash.)

Jim MacKenzie

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Oct 21, 1996, 3:00:00 AM10/21/96

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Yang Zeng wrote:
>
> I am new to nikon. I inclined to use a manual Sigma 21-35 lens on
> my nikon 8008s body. Could anyone tell me what kind of impact the
> manual lens will have on it? WIll the matrix metering work? Does it
> affect matrix balanced fill flash?

You lose:

- matrix metering (including matrix balanced fill flash)
- shutter priority automatic
- programmed automatic

All else functions. The camera will even give you a focus assist
indicator to help you focus accurately.

Jim
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