Posted on 01/12/2006 9:22:00 AM PST by Jack Black
Plus it only takes minutes instead of hours.
Can you save me a trip to eBay and tell me if the prices are any good on this camera?
what are your recs...thanx
Nikon PING
Don't forget Polaroid, one of the first victims of digital technology.
I run a Contax S2 (all mechanical, titanium body) with Zeiss primes. My subjects are outdoors, and it's not uncommon to find me trackside when it's -30F outside, waiting for the right lighting conditions and a train to photograph. The S2 is probably the most rugged and reliable SLR ever made, so I know that when I push the little button I'll get an image.
For my environment, digicams don't work. But because of the rapid disappearance of decent E6 labs, I won't have much choice soon but to buy a bunch of Y/C to EOS adapters and a Canon digibody. Heck, they're even torpedoing monochrome film...
My 105/2.5 is probably my favorite Nikon lens and one of my all time favorite lenses. However I would still rate the Zeiss 100/2.0 as a much better lens. And the Zeiss 50/1.4 I like much better than the Nikon equiv, having owned and used both extensively for many years.
We also see digital as superior to the other.
I don't. But clearly most of the world is with you on this.
There are digital Nikon's out there where you can do the same if not better job than with traditional film.
Transparencies? Black and White portraits? Ultra fast 3200 film? Top of the line Fuji color?
The new Zeiss rangefinder lenses look nice, and I like the camera body too (though it would be cool if they built a mechanical one).
Wonder if Zeiss will rethink their rumored release of Nikon mount lenses now? Or perhaps they will build a manual focus body and have the whole "curmudgeon" SLR market to themselves. (Leica still has the R I guess?).
I guess I better get to hoarding slide film. There is nothing better for capturing color.
I still have a perfectly-working Nikon F, and three original Pentax Spotmatic S models.
I don't shoot much 35mm any more, but I can't bear to lose these mementos of my days doing professional photography.
When I saw the picture of the Nikon rangefinder I thought that's gotta be from Cameraquest. I go to Cameraquest all the time and lust after all the cameras I want but can't afford. The pics on Cameraquest are so good it makes the pain all the worse.
Old lenses, traditional films, contact-prints, boutique b/w papers, platinum prints, etc.....all of these kinds of tools impart qualities that the digital market doesn't care about. Case in point: I read recently that there are people requesting platinum print wedding portraits. Someone with a large-format setup and platinum printing skills can do these portraits with ease and efficiency. Someone imitating such a thing digitally will offer a feeble imitation. And that's assuming they even have a real platinum print on hand to imitate.
I still have Kodachrome ASA 10 slides I made in 1952 with my PX special Argus C3. When Kodak changed Kodachrome from ASA 10 to 25, a lot of pros bought up all the old ASA 10 they could find and put it in the freezer. I did the same later when they stopped making ASA 25. Don't remember now what Big Yellow thought was "better".
The main selling point of Nikon was its lenses, and it is not that the lenses were superior in design but that Nikon's quality control allowed only the lenses that exceeded a minimum quality to go to market. Even cheap lenses by third-rate camera companies used the same designs and now and then by accident produced an excellent lens. It was possible to disassemble a cheap lens and by rotating elements improve the lens immensely, which is what Nikon did before they shipped and what the cheap manufacturers did not do since it is manpower intensive and expensive. Otherwise there is little difference between top of the line and bargain basement lenses.
Pros are going digital as fast as snapshot takers are. I just bought the Canon 20 D with 1.4 lens, which is the entry level of the higher tech cameras from this maker.
I'm still learning how to work with NO FILM IN THE CAMERA !
What are you talking about? Digital SLR's have blindingly fast shutter speeds. Even the consumer oriented Canon Digital Rebels compare favorably with film SLRs in shutter speed.
Aw shoot, you beat me to posting "Kodachrome."
I noticed a huge drop in color quality between my cheapo film camera and my cheapo digital camera.
I retired my Pentax ME after 25 years of perfect service, in favor of the Canon 20D. I'm learning how to shoot picture all over again...
"1957 Nikon SP"
Now that is beautiful. Wish it was mine.
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