Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/09/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 09:13 AM 9/25/96 -0400, you wrote: >What is a "'pro' camera"? I have seen and read articles for years which site >this, but I have not seen a uniform definition of the term. Of course it's all opinion at this point. But for me a pro camera is a camera that is sturdy enough to take the banging a professional dishes out without giving up too soon. Nikon rates their cameras at over 100,000 exposures before failure. I think it's probably a rather conservative estimate for their great pro cameras - the Nikon F5/F4. The N90 is sort of a pro camera, but I don't think it's truly a pro level camera - it breaks too easy. Also, pro cameras don't always have features that are the latest, but have been proven already to be useful and contribute to the picture making process. Hence, the camera makers often don't put the latest innovations on the top cameras until they've been tested on the amateurs. That's a good practice, though the F5 seems to be breaking that trend. But it seems to be pretty throughouly tested. =========== Eric Welch Grants Pass, OR Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake.