Well, those that follow the other half of this site already know, but I'm now out of the Nikon E-series gear club, having passed all my variuos gear unto another forum member.
I'm not done with the Kodak DCS stuff, though. Not by a long shot. My main camera has been a DCS 560 for several years now, having gone somewhat backwards to that from a Canon 1Ds mk-I. I find that the slightly smaller format CCD works better for me, especially with the colors I can work up from the Kodak sensor.
However, my lens kit consists mostly of Nikon auto and manual focus prime lenses. I use them on the Canon body with an adapter, along with a few Leica and Zeiss/Contax manual lenses. This works, but I do get tired of shooting using stop-down metering all the time. I have a couple Canon EF zooms, but more often than not I prefer to use the older manual focus primes.
So, now that I have emptied my shelf of Nikon E-series gear for some cash, I can now go out and pick up a Kodak DCS 760 to add to the 560. While the 760 is an improvement over the 660, which is identical to the 560 except for the body stuck on the front end, the main draw of the 760 is that I get to hang the Nikon prime lenses onto an F5 body and so can once again work with automatic stop-down shooting!
Once I find myself a nice 760, I think I'll go looking for a 720x just because sometimes I do need higher ISO than the 6 MP bodies provide. Not often, but these older Kodak bodies are getting cheap enough that I can justify having at least one hi-ISO unit on the shelf.
Ah, what fun!
Later!
Stan
