Hi--

Thanks for the Mamiya info. Well, the N90s arrived today, carried
by its owner. I popped on a 35mm f2 AF, and, uh, new glasses or
not, the finder was TERRIBLE! NOT SHARP!!! I could see the fine
Fresnel lines just fine - just not any fine subject details.
Yuck. Then came the next shock (well, you HAD almost gotten me
prepared to believe that the N90s could focus) - it missed,
hit, missed, missed, hit, etc. in AF. I put on a 105mm f2.8
Micro-Nikkor and tried again, and about 1/2 the time, I could
improve focus slightly by moving, or tapping the shutter release
to have it try again.... Hmmmm!! (I am beginning to think that
Nikon is following the lead of other companies and making their
VF's brighter and softer - looks "better", unless you know
better, but it is harder to detect the AF errors [though they
are still visible], and it makes people think they actually need
AF [gotta get rid of those FE/FM/FA/F/F3/8008's with matt-center
screens, so people won't see how easy MF can be.....].) I was
impressed! (That Nikon has sunk that low in VF quality - they
were tops.)

David