Small piece of curved black plastic in Nikon lens mount?
I just recently got the nikon 1.8D 50mm lens, & I wanted to put back on the 18-105 mm lens that it came with back on, I had a little difficulty reattaching it to the body, I lifted it a little, & I see a small piece of curved black plastic inside the lens mount, I removed it, & proceeded to put the 18-105mm lens back on, I finally got it on, it screwed in with a click into place. It freaked me out a bit, I tried a snapshot with it & all seemed to work, so hope it is ok. From my camera drop, I am still very nervous about handling the camera, I feel a bit like the bull in a china shop, as my hands fumble with it.
While out in town, I had a little trouble attaching the 50mm lens & getting it to work, I placed it on & the aperture setting just kept blinking, & I could not get the shutter button to press release & take a picture. I then fiddled with it back home & realized that there is a lock that is set at f22, I did this & got it to work. I think I would prefer to have the closest all round lens & leave it on the camera most of the time, & use the 50mm for when I shoot things like my artwork. This may be the safest with me, I dont like the idea of swapping out lenses for different purposes, especially outdoors around the beach etc when riding my bike, or in hurry to catch the moment. It increases the odds of something going wrong, & being a newbie to DSLR's this might be best. I figure if I want minimal distortion, I could just use photoshop or something to make corrections? isn't photoshop the big fancy program that can do alot fixing like this? & if I want to get close ups, I could step back from the subject & use the zoom. In addition, if I want to capture low light I will just have to use a tripod to compensate for lower shutter speeds. I notice the 18-105mm lens has a good range, a zoom, but with some wide angle capability. Would it work for shooting artwork? are there any other good all round lenses for the d7000 like the 18-105mm it came with that I could use most of the time? I notice there is the nikon 18-200mm lens. Is it much better than the 18-105mm that came with the nikon d7000? |
Did you ever figure out what this was?
(I think we had answered it for you in another related D7000 post, when you first had the camera and were posting questions here a lot.) Loose black plastic would imply something had broken, or that some loose junk had gotten into the SLR when you changed lenses. Also, how goes the photography? It's been a few months. Getting any good shots? |
No, I never did, I just removed it, I think I may have even placed it in a tiny plastic bag to save in case I needed it or something, & just screwed my lens back on, everything seems to be working ok, so I am hoping it was nothing serious.
Photography is ok, I just completed an online class of Adobe photoshop 1 from my local community collge & got an A for the course. I like how I can get instant shots one right after another, a point & shoot is slow in comparison. The only downsides are & they are minor, it is a bit bulky to carry around along with my day purse, & a little awkward to carry on my bike along with my purse. Also, the movie mode shoots in .mov format, which is a little awkward, as my family likes me to burn my movie files onto blank discs to watch a on a setop DVD player with our standard def tube TV. That is why I have like my sony cybershots for this, it shoots in .mpg format, which allows instant burning of footage to a disc. Other formats require time consuming conversions to .mpg format. It seems movie modes in cameras & camcorders are made in formats more for the web, as companies assume most people upload their video to youtube & facebook, where as in my case video is shot to watch on our older TV. Also it seems most setop DVD players do not support .mov format straight off the camera. Our DVD player is a Philips, it supports .mpg, .avi & divx. I know the camera is not meant to be a camcorder, I like it it for it's photo capabilities, but family will not let me go away from video they still insist I shoot some when I am out & about every now & then. I am also the one who gets stuck messing with the footage as none of them are as computer savy as I am. |
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The Quicktime container is Apple proprietary technology, and is probably why the "extra featre" type DVD players don't want to mess with it. The "AVI" files support by Philips, for example, are really Divx/Xvid MPEG-4 files in an AVI wrapper. MPEG-4 is decently supported in popular and/or open-source containers like AVI, MP4 and MKV -- the ones commonly supported by DVD players with added file playing features. If your DVD player supports downscaling of 1080p24, and also support MP4 or MKV files, then you may be able to simply re-wrap the files. There's several programs on Mac that can do this. (If you want to learn how, let us know, and we'll create a guide for this process. It's a very quick process, no encoding of video is necessary. Just dump the files to the Mac, re-wrap, and then upload to your flash drive or blank DVD for viewing.) I'd need to know exact model number of your DVD player, to know if it can support 1080p24 MKV or MP4 files, and assuming the info is in an online manual. If you still have the manual, you may be able to look on your own for supported file types. Another option is to buy a better player, like the very small and inexpensive WDTV: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...SIN=B003O85A96 Those cost all of about $65 + free shipping, and work well as "media center" players. |
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