Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks Don, Today my main income doesn't come from cameras and I've been telling myself for a couple of months ... sit it out, sit it out, something is in the making. I have looked seriously at the Fuji S2 and don't have any real beef with it. I want to cover the Swedish Championships in Synchronized skating with digital. I'll need 1600 EI, but might get away with 800 EI if I have autofocus (I make as many focusing mistakes as "camera shakes"). That happens in March. Tight, tight. Thanks again Don. Daniel On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Don Dory wrote: > Daniel, > The march thing is PMA which is a largely US based marketing association for > photographic goods. This is an international affair but is no where near as > big a deal as Photokina. > > My best guess as to what will happen. Canon will announce two new prosummer > DLR's, one will essentially be a replacement for the D60 but with less > magnification of the lens. The second is unknown. Money is evenly divided > on an 8MP or so full frame and what you mentioned, a replacement with more > resolution of the 1D. With production of the D60 stopped more than 30 days > ago I suspect that the new camera's will be shipping immediately. I am > fairly certain that anybody with a valid order with Canon received the D60 > they ordered. > > As to Nikon, it is interesting what they will be doing. They were very late > shipping D100's, the first ones had serious problems in firmware, color > balance, and reliability. At this time, most dealers have several in stock > for immediate delivery. I would be careful if you go the Nikon route to get > a late serial number and go to the Nikon site and download the firmware > upgrade. I would also look at the Fuji S2, after memory and software it is > about the same price as the D100 and seems to have largely worked out of the > box. > > My general advice to anyone not actively earning their living with a camera > is to wait three to six months for some dust to settle. Nikon is going the > route with Kodak and Olympus to work out the issues using a smaller imaging > chip. If they can repeal physics then there are advantages to smaller > "film" Lenses can be sharper, cameras can be smaller, apertures can be > wider. Also, Kodak indicates that they will actually start shipping their > 14MP camera sometime in February. > > Then there is Foveon. > > 4 cents this time. > > Don > dorysrus@mindspring.com > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html