Lew wrote:
>Last night when doing a photo shoot with my 8008S in manual mode I had set
>the F-stop to F8. After shooting some pix it said F11 on the LCD and in
>the viewfinder. I changed it back to F8 thinking I had bumped it...then a
>while later it said F5.6, I changed it back and then later it said F11
>again. I kept changing it and it kept changing to one F-stop up or down
>from my setting.
>I think I saw this behavior from the camera before but thought I had
>bumped the aperture ring. I know now it wasn't me. As an aside, I was
>using a Nikor 28-85AF lens with it.
>Anyone else seem something like this? Would you suspect the body, the
>lens, or the contacts between or????
Or possibly the operator! :) Your lens is a variable f stop zoom lens.
As you zoom from 28mm to 85mm the f stop changes from f/3.5 to f/4.5.
This is almost one stop (actually 3/4 stop). The mechanical aperture ring
obviously cannot change during zooming but the camera's electronic aperture
readout does reflect this change. So, if you set your lens to f/8 at or
close to the 28mm focal length and then zoom toward 85mm at some point the
viewfinder display will change to f/11 and vis-a-versa. If you set your
lens to f/8 at or close to the 85mm focal length and zoom to 28mm at some
point the viewfinder display will change to f/5.6. This is all normal if
these changes occurred as a result of zooming. If you experienced this
problem and you didn't zoom the lens, I have no idea what the problem is.
Art
Art Searle, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Lake Grove, NY, USA
20 miles east of Nikon USA www.erols.com/w2nra
