Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/10/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Now if we could just persuade the owners to call it a Nikon on this list instead of that Leica D700 silliness........ We get it. It is a great camera that can do things that a rangefinder cannot. They're different. Cheers Geoff http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman NO ARCHIVE On 21 October 2010 10:09, Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote: > I'll bet you'll like it. My first "full-frame" dslr is the Canon 5DII. I > have a number of friends with the D700 and they love it. It may even have > less noise than the Canon, though so far the Canon is fine for what I do. > I > like the extra cropping room for prints, since I can never seem to get the > full-frame image right to begin with. > > Ken > > On 10/20/2010 7:02 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > >> I'm glad some of you guys are pulling for me; I'm moving up. >> Had been shooting with a D200 on my good days since I got it before >> leaving >> Portland for here, NYC 3/30/2006. So I've been using it for 4.6 years! >> That's not bad even for a film camera. >> The D300 came out halfway back which was much nicer but more importantly >> professional and serious work went solidly into the full frame 24x36 area >> in >> this interim. >> First with eight thousand dollar specials. And then less then a year later >> as usual they came out with the streamlined models that most people >> including pros get -- priced to sell. In effect as Kyle says the F100. >> Though the F100 you'd get for 1000 bucks and An F5 for two and a half >> grand. >> That was 1999. >> " So tonight I'm gonna party like it's 1999" >> When the D700 first came out it was going for $2,999.95 August 2008. >> And you'd think you'd have to spend three grand for a camera like that. >> Now they're $2,399 but with tax and license a few hundred more. >> That's the kind of money I'm not seeing so much of any more. >> But I put my foot down and pulled it off. >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >