I am actually in the "if it makes them happy, good for them" group. I always thought it was kind of stupid that people get angry that someone who is a poor photographer has a great camera. So what? I look at it like the ugly guy with the hot girlfriend/wife -- that person knows something good...

Quote: Originally Posted by Poohblah that's why you adjust for reciprocity failure using the aperture and not the shutter speed... Not if you are already wide open... Quote: How often do most folks do 2 hour exposures or shoot in the dead of night? The point is, most...

It's a balance though, as most films have reciprocity failure and digital does not. So your two hour exposure on film may only require 15 minutes on digital to get an equivalent exposure. It depends on what film you are using. Some like Fuji Acros are extremely well-suited to long exposures and...

I mostly listen to indie music, but a high proportion of them put stuff out on vinyl -- radiohead, stereolab, tortoise, chris whitley, aphex twin, cat power, beirut, iron and wine, american analog set....many many more. Those are just the ones I can think of off of the top of my head. I know...

Man, those gold Leicas are ghastly! The late 70s/early 80s were not a great time for design, were they...it will take great pictures though.

I am normally a hood over filter guy too, but the Nikon hoods are just so huge! So instead, I just got a B+W MRC uv filter and said the hell with it. They are very flare resistant and tend to repel dust and fingerprints well. One thing I like about the Leica lenses is that most of them have the...

The hood makes it look huge (it's big anyway, but the hood is gigantic). I have not found the hood necessary...it is very flare resistant.

But would you take a 135i over an NSX? That's the real question . I think all these companies are capable of producing killer cameras, it's just for whatever reason, they decided to market themselves in the specific positions that they have.

I think you are being a bit flippant. Regardless of how big Sony is, there are obviously a lot of good, talented people in their camera division. As Motox guy and I said before, they brought in the photo imaging section from Konica Minolta. Konica arguably made the best lenses of ANY Japanese...

I would dispute that Sony is not a photography company. They may only have made slr bodies in the last couple of years, they have long supplied the sensors to Nikon, Pentax and others. They made the sensor in the D2x and the would-be D3x is rumored to have the 24mp sony full-frame sensor. And as...

Old? I'm 30! My lord, is that old? I guess it is if you are 17...

Probably not. It looks like it is about the same size as a D300 or an F6. Both of those are still considerably larger than the M8...mostly with respect to lenses and body width. Also, the M8 still has better image quality than the D3 at base ISO and ISO 320 (it has no AA filter, so despite being...

Quote: Originally Posted by Towert7 The rich get richer, and the poor get poorer. Yay! This is not the case for me, I assure you. The Leica stuff going up is small consolation for the past 8 disastrous years. The collapse of the dollar has hit me a lot harder than most because I...

Much of it is the euro versus dollar exchange rate. A lot of these cameras and lenses were dramatically cheaper before Bush took office. Since then, the dollar has collapsed and with it the price of european goods has skyrocketed. In 2001, the 50mm f/1 was 3500 or so (it was cheaper than Canon's...

Leica lenses will not fit on Nikon mount with a glassless adapter. The problem is that Leica M lenses (the rangefinder lenses) are designed to be about 27.75mm from the flange to the film/sensor. Nikon F mount flance to film/sensor distance is 46.5mm, so you could put a Nikon lens on a Leica...

That said, a lot of older lenses tend to have that Kinoptic look. Spherical aberration is one of the causes (spherical aberration makes bokeh look better...usually). Another option would be to get either the 105/2 DC or 135/2 DC. Both these lenses have superb bokeh, and you can even control it...

If bokeh is really important to you, you should give up on this Nikon digital business and either go to Zeiss and Leica lenses or go to medium format. For whatever reason, they just seem to do it better than most of the Canon and Nikon versions. Leica also has a 75/2 apo and a 75/1.4 that have a...

I really don't think this will happen soon (i.e. not within 4-5 years). We have not seen a (new) full frame camera under 2500 dollars yet, and part of that is the sheer cost of the sensors...we are not going to see a D40 market level camera with a full frame chip for quite awhile. Part of this...

The difference is that the D700 is a professional sensor in a professional body. The 5D is a professional sensor in a prosumer body. The D700 has the top of the line image processing pipeline, weather sealing, top of the line AF, metering and so on. The 5D's body, while very nice, has more in...

Well, the professional sector is clearly going back to full frame...it is what pros have wanted since the beginning -- to have their lenses act like they did in the film era (which was not that long ago for many of them). In general bigger sensors have better signal to noise ratios, more light...

I'd be happy to if you will buy my D3! In fact, I am a bit annoyed, as I only got the D3 at the end of April, and had the D700 been available, I would have gone for that. I don't need 9fps, audio notes and things like that....I would have much preferred a smaller, lighter body frame. If I can...

Quote: Originally Posted by Towert7 Anyone 'shoot from the hip'? If so, any preference for focal length? Generally, something between 24mm and 35mm is a good choice. (on full frame). These lenses give you a broad enough field of view to make up for some inaccuracies in framing...

Sad to say it, but Canon's 35/1.4L runs rings around the Nikon 35/2. The 28/1.4...well, that's another story. I am hoping that Nikon starts updating their primes now that they finally have a full-frame body. I would love a good, modern 35/1.4 for the D3. Hopefully their will be some updated AFS...

anyone?

I see that this product is becoming popular here, but I was wondering if people could explain to me its advantages and disadvantages. As far as I can see, it just removes the computer from the equation and allows you to use only your iPod as a digital transport. Is this correct? If it is, is...