Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I got to play with one a friend bought as a preorder from KEH (ordered the first day it was announced) and received around the first of March (they got in something like 6). I really didn't get to do anything complex with it but it seemed impressive. He's promised me a day with it sometime this spring, but here in Alabama spring already seems to be morphing into early summer. <grin> I'll let you know when I get more time with it. Allen >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 >dorysrus@mindspring.com > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information