jay_merrill
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Re: How many other Photographers are there on the site
Actually, I paid more than that for my D200. The body was about the same price, but the battery grip was about $300 more. I bought it both for the extra battery capacity, and the extra trigger and aperture/shutter speed controls, for shooting in portrait mode. After throwing a lense in, with a couple of new cards, etc., the package cost me a little over 3 grand.
The funny thing is that the stuff in my camera bag, is worth more than the boat that I shoot out of! As I've said in here a few times, I don't "do" pretty boats - they are tools to me and since I don't take clients out on them, old and funky works fine! In your business, I understand that appearance is important too, but I am happy to be able to get away with my mid-seventies Glassmaster and my '72 Johnson!
I do agree that you should never skimp on glass to buy a better body. That said, my view on processors is that they are sort of like the difference between Kodachrome and Fuji Velvia. Some people used to swear by Kodachrome and wouldn't shoot with anything else. Others, myself included, liked the warmth and color rendition of the Velvia slide film. I have always been a Nikon shooter, but have never been in love with the processors that they were using in the DSLRs. The CMOS processor gives me an "off the disk" look that resembles the Velvia characteristics that I liked so much, and I'm really glad that Nikon has begun to use them.
Here's a shot that I took the other day with my "knock-around" camera. Its a a 5.0 MP Canon Powershot S2 IS, with a 6.0 - 72mm, f2.7-3.5 lens. In the 35mm film world, that is a 36 - 432mm lense. I looked at Nikon "P&S" cameras and just thought the Canon was a better camera for the money. The only thing that I really don't like about it, is that it doesn't have a true viewfinder - the image that you see is an LCD that works when the monitor door is closed. The processor is almost the same as in your camera - its the DIGIC II, instead of the DIGIC III.
Other than reducing the image size for posting and adding ? info, this image is straight off the disk, with no tweaking.
Actually, I paid more than that for my D200. The body was about the same price, but the battery grip was about $300 more. I bought it both for the extra battery capacity, and the extra trigger and aperture/shutter speed controls, for shooting in portrait mode. After throwing a lense in, with a couple of new cards, etc., the package cost me a little over 3 grand.
The funny thing is that the stuff in my camera bag, is worth more than the boat that I shoot out of! As I've said in here a few times, I don't "do" pretty boats - they are tools to me and since I don't take clients out on them, old and funky works fine! In your business, I understand that appearance is important too, but I am happy to be able to get away with my mid-seventies Glassmaster and my '72 Johnson!
I do agree that you should never skimp on glass to buy a better body. That said, my view on processors is that they are sort of like the difference between Kodachrome and Fuji Velvia. Some people used to swear by Kodachrome and wouldn't shoot with anything else. Others, myself included, liked the warmth and color rendition of the Velvia slide film. I have always been a Nikon shooter, but have never been in love with the processors that they were using in the DSLRs. The CMOS processor gives me an "off the disk" look that resembles the Velvia characteristics that I liked so much, and I'm really glad that Nikon has begun to use them.
Here's a shot that I took the other day with my "knock-around" camera. Its a a 5.0 MP Canon Powershot S2 IS, with a 6.0 - 72mm, f2.7-3.5 lens. In the 35mm film world, that is a 36 - 432mm lense. I looked at Nikon "P&S" cameras and just thought the Canon was a better camera for the money. The only thing that I really don't like about it, is that it doesn't have a true viewfinder - the image that you see is an LCD that works when the monitor door is closed. The processor is almost the same as in your camera - its the DIGIC II, instead of the DIGIC III.
Other than reducing the image size for posting and adding ? info, this image is straight off the disk, with no tweaking.
