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Court
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - 09:52 am: | 
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The 950 with Nikon optics does great. Similarly the $2,000 D100 with a high end Nikon lens seems to do quite well with 6.1 mp.
The kid I am borrowing this from uses primarily film with Leica optics. I've learned, the cheap way through borrowing, that "real" photogs think nothing about putting a $4K lesn on a $2K camera.
Court |
Dino
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - 11:06 am: |
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Henrik - Or, even better...a great lens, usable menus and controls AND more pixels!  |
Henrik
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - 11:55 am: |
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Dino; right you are. I have however realized (took years and lots of $$ spent on SLR gear), that if I don't bring/assemble/carry around/use a camera, it doesn't matter how much bling it's got 
So for the last years I've been using a Nikon 990 with 3.2 MP and have shot
1) a lot more photos than when I thought I'd carry around my Olympus OM4 w/ lenses.
2) enjoyed photography a lot more (I am really into the instant gratification thing digital has going for it)
3) shot the vast majority of the photos on the Team Elves site on the salt and in CO, some of which a pretty decent - if I may say so myself. Click "Bonneville" and select the event years at the bottom of the drop down menu. The first year alone I shot about 900 pictures.
Now, if someone would make a small, fast digital camera with a decent resolution, pivot screen and a killer lens, that I could still fit in a (large?) pocket, I'd be all over it. That said, I think the Canon G6 is pretty darn close, but would like a bit more lens - say 28 - 105 (?). Of course I don't want to pay the f-stop penalty either 
Henrik |
Ebear
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - 12:15 pm: |
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Henrik...seen an S1-IS Canon?...37-370 with IS...only a 3.2 but should change this year to 5 or 6.2... |
Dino
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - 01:17 pm: |
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Henrik - The CP-5400 fits everything you said almost dead on, except fast.
There are several really excellent cameras with 6-7 MP resolution but that are just a bit on the large size to really be pocketable(Canon G-6, Sony V-3). And they don't go 28mm wide, more like 35mm.
The Casio EX-P600 (6MP)is almost right on...'cept no pivoting display and 33mm on the wide end. More compact than most.
Look at the Nikon CP-8400 (8MP). Perhaps a bit on the large side.
Coming soon, and sounds like it may be a killer digicam is the Olympus C7070-WZ (7MP). |
Henrik
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - 01:31 pm: |
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Thanks for the cam recommendations eBear & Dino - all good candidates.
I keep an eye on the DP world via DP Review and Imaging Resource mostly. I check others as well, but those 2 are my main source. They seem to do the most rigorous tests and don' t sugar coat their findings.
I'm only partly shopping these days - too many other things to drain my $$. But soon.
Henrik
(Message edited by Henrik on February 22, 2005) |
Road_thing
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - 04:00 pm: |
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Wow. I haven't even figured out all the settings on my CoolPix 775(?) yet!
This discussion reminds me of one held on the porch of the National Gun Club in San Antonio at the World Skeet Shooting Championships about 15 years ago. Several worthy competitors were describing the features of the new guns they planned to shoot next season--adjustable stocks, trick chokes, release triggers, all kinds of esoteric stuff. My late friend Earl Barroso, who had just come in from completing the second half of the 12 gauge event,shooting a perfect score of 250/250 with a ratty old Remington 1100, pretty much capped the discussion with the succinct observation:
"It ain't the arrow--it's the Indian!"
My point being that, no matter how many bells and whistles I have on my camera, Court Canfield or Jerry Houghton or Henrik "The Great Dane" Pederson will capture a better image with an Instamatic!
rt
Sorry, I just thought I'd throw that in... |
Dino
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - 09:46 pm: |
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rt - But I really hate it when I've been lucky enough to get a shot I really like...and it's low res. This one was taken with a 1.3 MP Olympus D460...would not be able to print it larger than a postcard without it falling apart. 
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Pdxs3t
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - 09:57 pm: |
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Dino,
If ya need that printed, I would be more then happy to run it through my Genuine Fractals 2.5 program so you could have a nice printable copy of the pic.
JC |
Dino
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - 11:59 pm: |
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Jim - Send your e-mail address to dave93257@yahoo.com and I'll send you the full file...I'd like very much to see what the program does to the file!
Dino |
Pdxs3t
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - 12:00 am: |
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On its way Dino! |
Road_thing
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - 10:21 am: |
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Dino, I hear you. That's a great shot and a beautiful bunch of azaleas!
rt |
Dino
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - 03:06 pm: |
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Thanks, rt. That was one of those target of opportunity deals. I walked out of my house early one morning to go to work and the rising sun was slanting in thru the trees to light that bush. I ran back in and grabbed the first camera that came to hand and snapped that shot. Purely good fortune that the beam of light caught that group of flowers that way. |
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