New Nikon F (!) User/Leaf Chaser
Hello. I haven't posted to this newsgroup before. I'd like to see how
much better/worse my Dad's old Nikon F SLR is than a low-end point and
shoot digital (Canon PowerShot A620) I bought this past summer.
I bought an F user's manual (circa 1962), two rolls of 400 speed film,
and would like to do the following with this camera...in late September
and throughout the "red maple" part of Northeast U.S. autumn:
1) Take photographs at relatively close range of individual, peak or
"past-peak" red maples. By relatively close range I mean no more than
50 feet away.
2) Take photographs in early morning--which, in the Northeast U.S.
autumn, often ensures fog. I would actually desire more rather than
less fog, because--
3) I would like individual maples, which will be the subject of my
photographs, to be in as sharp a focus as possible, with the background
forest's clarity or lack thereof of negligeable importance.
4) Under no circumstances do I want *any* sunshine in these
photographs.
5) If it needs stating, then-- I do not want to use any source of
artificial light.
Because I am an absolute novice, I'd like suggestions of aperture and
shutter settings, and any other germane thing peculiar to Nikon F 35
mm.
Part of my dislike of my digital camera is what *I* call "indifferent"
depth of field. In fact, I got into a very unpleasant and ad hominem
argument on another photography group because (in my opinion--I stress
"opinion"), what is called "perspective" and what is called "depth of
field" in analog photography are both uniformly unnatural in digital.
Let me stress once more that this is my layperson's, acolyte's,
opinion...which prompted several of the posters on the other newsgroup
to recommend film photography to me.
Rather than get into another brouhaha with hobbyists, learned amateurs,
and/or professionals on this or another group, I decided I could easily
avoid the entire issue by choosing to photograph my red maples on a day
where depth of field and perspective are both moot--i.e., in
mild-to-moderate fog.
Thank you for reading this post and for any suggestions.
Jules Vide
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