Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sounds like a Canon user :) Come on, the istD may be a great camera but nowhere near the sales of Canon or Nikon. Whoopee is that the N50 will be the same price as the new Digital Rebel, but with more features. Sure the Rebel has 8mp, but hardly a difference between 6 and 8mp. Nikon's a smaller company that depends on others for CCD's,CMOS chips. Canon's a giant that would lose nothing if they dumped the photo business. D2x shipments are doing well from reports I've seen. Of course it's about time the 20D sees the discontinued racks, it's been more than 6 months I think. Cewl thing is now with adapters, my Leica 35/f2 fits on my Nikon D2h, while using Canon's 16mp CMOS inside. Oops, are we supposed to know that? Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Dory"Subject: [Leica] OT Nikons new cameras > I just received a push email giving a few brief facts on two new Nikon > DSLRs. There is a new D50 at 6 MP and small and light. Whoopee, that > is certainly earthshaking revolutionary product. > > The second is the D70s also a 6MP camera that at least will shoot 144 > consecutive shots at 3fps. Of course there is an asterisk on that claim > so I am sure there is a card speed and a file size requirement. > > Couple that with a price decrease and a rebate on the 20D from Canon, > Nikon's stupidity at trying a proprietary RAW format, and some pretty > aggressive pricing on the Pentax *istD doesn't leave much hope for > Nikon. Has anybody received their D2x? > > 0.02 > > Don