The lens adapter and lenses work but the lighting is horrible, will an external flash help or am I doing something wrong?
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Don't forget to manually adjust the aperture (the adjustment ring on the adapter). Wider aperture - > more light gets in.
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You can only use this with your camera set at manual exposure, where you set the aperture and shutter speed your self. You can use a handheld light meter for this, or guess, or get an exposure using a matching (Canon/Nikon etc) lens on your camera body. The use that exposure when you mount a lens using the Fotodiox Maxxum to Nikon adapter. Again - no automatic exposure with this adapter. I usually guess the exposure, take some test frames and then bracket by turning the aperture ring until it looks good.
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This lens adaptor has a graduating filter system. The adjustments are at the backof adaptor.
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Don't forget to manually adjust the aperture (the adjustment ring on the adapter). Wider aperture - &gt; more light gets in.
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Hi Kayla,I try to share my experience if it can help you. I bought this adapter few months back so I can use my Spny alpha lenses on my Nikon F mount. It seems you Need to open up on the adapter to allow more light into the sensor. Notice the 7 white dots on the adapter? Try to turn to the darkest dot. However it seems to allow some light leak into the picture and it is not easy to turn it to the dot and stay there. Seems the barrel moves back to white dot so I use slow tap to keep it in place. Rather sloppy.What do you mean by horrible? Do you mean the image looks darker? I hope it helps. Hi Kayla,I try to share my experience if it can help you. I bought this adapter few months back so I can use my Spny alpha lenses on my Nikon F mount. It seems you Need to open up on the adapter to allow more light into the sensor. Notice the 7 white dots on the adapter? Try to turn to the darkest dot. However it seems to allow some light leak into the picture and it is not easy to turn it to the dot and stay there. Seems the barrel moves back to white dot so I use slow tap to keep it in place. Rather sloppy.What do you mean by horrible? Do you mean the image looks... » Read More Hi Kayla,I try to share my experience if it can help you. I bought this adapter few months back so I can use my Spny alpha lenses on my Nikon F mount. It seems you Need to open up on the adapter to allow more light into the sensor. Notice the 7 white dots on the adapter? Try to turn to the darkest dot. However it seems to allow some light leak into the picture and it is not easy to turn it to the dot and stay there. Seems the barrel moves back to white dot so I use slow tap to keep it in place. Rather sloppy.What do you mean by horrible? Do you mean the image looks darker? I hope it helps. « Show Less
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Hi, Suzanne, with regard to the washed out photos when took with flash, check the ISO level (sensor sensivity to light), perhaps ISO is set too high (400-800-1600)? Set ISO to 160 or 200. I suggest you to exercise a lot changing the camera controls and you'll learn the differences and how to manage it. With flash off, check to set Vibration reduction in OFF when using tripod, and reversely, set it in ON when using handheld. Also try to take lot of pictures in Auto, Scene Mode, Night Landscape, Night Portrait, etc. and see what suits better. Print the PDF manual (220 pages) and read it carefully and check controls and take pictures as you read it. Remember that you get a red box in the screen when the camera cannot focus. So move the camera back or front, and focus again. I bought this camera on July 2011 and it has a personality specially when focusing but I've got beautiful pictures. And I love the zoom, panorama mode and the capacity of taking pictures in low light . Hope this helps you!!
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What kind of lens are you using you may have to set the back focus. Or since this is a cheap adaptor it may be too thick for your camera
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Go to Setup > Release w/o lens and make it enable. It will definitely work.......
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Autofocus does not work with this adaptor. Use manual focus. It's like driving a stick shift car - once you learn, you will have more fun.
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you might want to check the specs for these lenses vs your camera. I also like to suggest you might want to contact the seller's technical support. sorry I couldn't help.
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I have had Zero luck with this adapter - it did not work with ANY flash I tried to use on it.
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don't use flash if I can help it, I like available light when I can. Olympus lights are a little high.
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Regarding plugging in to the USB on the back of the computer, etc. etc., I don't understand why it has to be so much trouble. My Vivitar pocket camera just...works.However, I'm going to try it...I've plugged the camera into a back USB port. We'll see what happens.
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I sent the flash back because I was extremely dissapointed how long it took to refire again. The company I bought it from gave me a hard time and wanted to charge me a restocking fee. I fought with Amazon and the company and they returned my money. I have learned that if you really want a good flash to work with a Nikon, buy a Nikon flash which I did. I hope you found this helpful.
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Hello, On EXR and Auto mode I've found my images in low light to be sub par without using the flash - which then can unfortunately cause it's own set of problems. However, as I learn the camera I find adjusting the settings and really depending on the manual as a reference guide, along with youtube tutorial videos that my low and dim light photos are improving. I'm an Amateur at this stage of course but more advanced photographers would have an effortless time taking great shots in low light conditions. If you're shopping around check out the Panasonic FZ200 and the Sony DDSC-HX300 both have won tremendous accolades for low light performance. Hope this helps!
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Use the aperture priority mode and set +/- exp. to +2. Depending on the light level, try to use the lowest ISO possible. 400+ is likely to be grainy. If you can get away with it, 80-200 looks great in most situations. In a restaraunt, you may be better off using the flash -- perhaps on a lower setting.
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I don't know because the lens hood that came with it creates a dark shadow in the bottom of the picture when used with built-in flash.
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You will need an adapter and it will work. In this way you may lose some auto focus speed but not image quality :)
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Try putting your camera in manual mode. AF doesn't work with this adapter, so use it as a manual focus.
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I don't know of any flash issues, I have a white case though and it doesn't really seem to affect the flash? Then again, I don't take too many indoor/night photos so I may not have noticed. I'm sorry I couldn't be more help :(
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No problem. Just pay mind its a harsh flash. If you're planning on using the camera casually its great, but you might eventually want to go the extra mile for a nicer model for the flash itself. Two cents.