[Leica] D700

[afirkin at afirkin.com (afirkin at afirkin.com)]

> I only tested the A900 with 35, 50 and 85 mm lenses.  I liked the way
> images from it in low or contrasty light looked like the scene I was
> photographing straight out of the camera, rather than like the scene
> taken in flat bright daylight, like the D700, Canon 5D and other very
> capable full frame cameras tend to, and the general film-grain look of
> its noise when it became apparent.
>
> But the lens range is limiting and I wouldn't buy one just on the
> principle that if I need to use a tilt-shift lens, or a 14 mm lens, or
> whatever, I can easily hire one for a Nikon, whereas I cannot for a
> Sony here in Australia.  I can also easily mount a D700 on any of my
> microscopes with a Nikon built C-Mount adaptor, whereas I looked and
> as far as I can tell no such thing exists for the Minolta-Sony mount.
> Maybe it does, but I couldn't find one.
>
> Marty

So Marty would you go D700 or cough up for the D3s/x. The x would
"emulate" the sony in file size.

Alastair