Richard Vanek - Black and White Photography

I have just arrived from short train trip on which I have bought Nikon F100. I will write little bit more later. For now I have try few things and I have setup custom controls the way I like them to handle camera. It does work perfectly and feel very good. Viewfinder is much better than F80 and focusing is faster and more precise. No hunting. It is a bit noisier, but I do not mind now.
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I have first roll finished using my new Nikon F100. Isn't it good feeling? Yes it is incredible good feeling. Viewfinder feels like on old good manual focus camera, build is same. So you really feel like you have trustable piece of equipment in your hand. F80 did feel little toys, not much and not from the first time, but more and more I was using it it has created that feeling. F100 is little bigger and little heavier, but, surprisingly it adds to the positive feeling.
What I like very much is that I can use lens for setting up of aperture! It is again like in old good days when you use both hands. The modern auto focus camera put all controls in your right hand and that makes it too much in my view. Now I can use left hand for aperture setting and stabilizing camera as well. As I do not use zooms these are only two actions my left hand is doing. I am using AF-ON button for focusing and AE-L button for Auto Exposure lock. Shutter release is used only for shutter. I also like controlling exposure compensation by main dial on back of the camera without need for pushing any additional button.