[Leica] Professional use and Professionalism

[robertmeier at usjet.net (Robert Meier)]

You might be thinking of the D3200.   At any rate, the D3200 and the D5200, 
which isn't available yet, have 24 meg sensors 
that are very good.   At the normal range of ISO's you probably can't tell 
the difference between the files they produce and 
what a full-frame camera produces.   As for the articulated screen, it's one 
of the most useful features a camera can have, 
letting you shoot at waist level inconspicuously.

It's the lineal descendant of the D40x that you used so extensively and 
touted so highly.

Robert

On Dec 3, 2012, at 2:39 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:

> Make a living, Don with a D5200  upper entry level nikon which comes in
> different colors notably red, cost eleven hundred dollars and has a big 
> dial
> on top with a flower, a mountain, a skier (maybe its a jogger), a women 
> with
> a hat, a kid with its head cracked open, a big word in caps: EFFECTS or
> SCENE.  Has a cropped sensor and a back screen which flops out to the side
> idiotically.
> Its an insult to your client and to yourself.
> And basically on this list its one more insult to the profession of
> photography. The only thing its not is an insult to the Leica company.
> You want to join a profession you do it right.
> 
> http://content.hwigroup.net/images/products/xl/166270/3/nikon_d5200_body.jpg
> or
> http://tinyurl.com/cchms4u
> 
> If you used it to shoot a wedding half the wedding party would be shooting
> with a better camera than you are.
> 
> 
> Mark William Rabiner
> Photography
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/
> 
> 
>> From: Robert Meier <robertmeier at usjet.net>
>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2012 20:15:45 -0600 (CST)
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Professional use and Professionalism
>> 
>> Except that the D5200 isn't available for sale yet.
>> 
>> 
>> On Dec 2, 2012, at 7:20 PM, Don Dory <don.dory at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> I have read with great interest the thread on professional cameras and 
>>> the
>>> failings of Leica.
>>> 
>>> My only real point is that if you are getting paid you have back ups to
>>> your back up.  If you can't afford two or three identical bodies then you
>>> rotate into newer stuff before your current tool is too far gone to be
>>> dependable.  Same with lenses, power, flashes, and memory storage.  All
>>> things fail when you need them so there has to be a next.
>>> 
>>> My second observation is that all brands fail, all lenses have issues, 
>>> and
>>> sensors from every vendor can do some very interesting things.  This is
>>> from direct observation from handling thousands(yes thousands) of 
>>> cameras,
>>> lenses, flashes and what have you.
>>> 
>>> Last, the worst thing you can do is not use your equipment.  I see more
>>> really nice outside with fuzzy, stiff, non working insides because 
>>> someone
>>> put the item away in deep storage and didn't make such good choices as to
>>> what that storage might be.
>>> 
>>> Use the tool that you can afford that gets the job done.  Believe me, 
>>> I've
>>> gone down many rabbit holes searching for the best: knife, 1911, fast
>>> burning powder, 50mm lens, 35mm lens, framing hammer....My conclusion is
>>> that most of the time any of the top three manufacturer's in any given
>>> field will have a perfectly adequate choice starting in the low middle of
>>> their line.  In Nikon you could make a living with a D5200 if you were 
>>> down
>>> to that.
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Don
>>> don.dory at gmail.com
>>> 
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