help me with my nikon 8800

[jagtrumbul]

this is probably the dumbest question ever posted, but if i don't ask i won't know..ok..after i screw on the adapter of my wide angle lense and then the lense itself, how can i zoom on an object to shoot it. everytime i zoom in, it starts zooming in and out on its own. please help! :confused:

[brucegarrett]

Hi

Can you describe which Wide Angle Converter you are using?

As you are using an adapter with your wide angle converter I presume you are not using the dedicated Nikon WM-E80. The 8800 manual recommends only the WM-E80 so this may be the cause of your problem.

You might try selecting 'Wide Adapter' as the Lens Option in the Shooting Menu and see what happens.

Bruce

[John_Reed]

this is probably the dumbest question ever posted, but if i don't ask i won't know..ok..after i screw on the adapter of my wide angle lense and then the lense itself, how can i zoom on an object to shoot it. everytime i zoom in, it starts zooming in and out on its own. please help! :confused:...But if you're at the shortest zoom of the 8800, i.e., 35mm equivalent, and you then attach the wide angle adapter, let's say it's a .8X adapter, then you're down to 28mm equivalent. I'll assume the lens works there? It seems to me that there wouldn't be much point in using any zoom at all, since only a little nudge on the zoom (anything more than 1.25X) would take you back into the lens's "native range," where you wouldn't have needed the adapter in the first place. So maybe you should just be happy with the un-zoomed wide-angle range you have, and suppress your desire to "zoom in?" :o

[brucegarrett]

Hi John

Um... "...it starts zooming in and out on its own...".

Grasp the concept.

Bruce

[John_Reed]

Hi John

Um... "...it starts zooming in and out on its own...".

Grasp the concept.

BruceI guess you didn't read the OP's entire question, Bruce: "everytime i zoom in, it starts zooming in and out on its own." What part of that concept didn't I grasp? :p

[brucegarrett]

Hi John

Sorry... I just thought we might stay on subject.

The original post was querying the erratic behaviour of their 8800 with the Wide Angle Converter attached, rather than if they needed a Wide Angle Converter at all.

Perhaps you may have some other suggestions for jagtrumbul as to what the problem might be?

Bruce

[John_Reed]

Hi John

Sorry... I just thought we might stay on subject.

The original post was querying the erratic behaviour of their 8800 with the Wide Angle Converter attached, rather than if they needed a Wide Angle Converter at all.

Perhaps you may have some other suggestions for jagtrumbul as to what the problem might be?

BruceMy question (or response) had to do with why you'd want to zoom in after once installing the wideangle adapter, and I was posing the possibility that maybe it wasn't intended for the camera to zoom in with the WA adapter installed, since almost any zoom at all would put the combination into the focal length range of the original lens, sans WA adapter. I don't have an 8800, but I do notice that with the WA conversion lens option selected on my FZ15, the zoom is constrained to be no more than 2X. It could well be that going beyond this zoom level with a WA adapter attached might result in an apparent reversal of the zoom progression? Perhaps jagtrumbul could tell us what zoom level he was using when the "reversal" started happening?