Hamish Gill
Tech Support (and Marketing)
Edit - I have written my thoughts in much greater detail here on my blog
Before I bought the Ricoh I managed to pick up a Nikon AF600, they seem to be pretty hard to come across, but when they do come up they sell for very little! I paid £16 for mine, and thats a lot of cash by all accounts!
It is a rare beasty in as much as it has a 28mm fixed lens... They are few and far between it seems. The max aperture is f/3.5.
Nikon af600 by Hamish_Gill, on Flickr
Settings wise its pretty sparse, various fairly standard flash modes - slow sync, red eye, auto, on and off. Infinity focus lock, self timer and a double shot self timer... thats pretty much your lot!
Nikon af600 by Hamish_Gill, on Flickr
I've run the standard roll of xp2 through it ... nice results ...
Not quite the 'pop' somehow of the yashica t5, the images are sharp - my scans show very little difference in sharpness between it and the t5, but they don't quite have ... not sure, maybe the yashica has a touch more contrasty lens. I just prefer the images from the zeiss on the yashy ... Thats not to put down the Nikon, for £16 its a bargain and a half in my books!
My flickr gallery of images can be found here Nikon AF600 - a set on Flickr
Before I bought the Ricoh I managed to pick up a Nikon AF600, they seem to be pretty hard to come across, but when they do come up they sell for very little! I paid £16 for mine, and thats a lot of cash by all accounts!
It is a rare beasty in as much as it has a 28mm fixed lens... They are few and far between it seems. The max aperture is f/3.5.
Nikon af600 by Hamish_Gill, on Flickr
Settings wise its pretty sparse, various fairly standard flash modes - slow sync, red eye, auto, on and off. Infinity focus lock, self timer and a double shot self timer... thats pretty much your lot!
Nikon af600 by Hamish_Gill, on Flickr
I've run the standard roll of xp2 through it ... nice results ...
Not quite the 'pop' somehow of the yashica t5, the images are sharp - my scans show very little difference in sharpness between it and the t5, but they don't quite have ... not sure, maybe the yashica has a touch more contrasty lens. I just prefer the images from the zeiss on the yashy ... Thats not to put down the Nikon, for £16 its a bargain and a half in my books!
My flickr gallery of images can be found here Nikon AF600 - a set on Flickr
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