Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/01/21

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Subject: [Leica] OT: Nikon D300 impressions so far
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Mon Jan 21 00:41:11 2008
References: <006401c85be9$f3ac44c0$0202a8c0@MacPhisto> <200801210645.m0L6ixYx026388@dragonsgate2.imagecraft.com> <D8A82D19-4AEB-4679-8912-B4242C0A01DE@gmail.com> <3cad89990801202313o71d28cb8xc26985e55915d110@mail.gmail.com> <03743ED4-0A6C-47CC-8BD3-EDF655251501@gmail.com>

It is just a question of flexibility down the road...
Cheers
Jayanand

On Jan 21, 2008 2:05 PM, Luis Miguel Casta?eda Navas <octabod@gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> On 21/01/2008, at 8:13, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote:
>
> > To me - I do not have either camera - the Nikon seems to be a far
> > superior
> > system in every way but for  weight - even here a Nikon D40x + AFS
> > VR 18-200
> > lens is an ideal carry around outfit (this I have!)
>
> At this point I do understand that we're discussing just personal
> preferences, not trying to convince anyone about what is a superior
> system, that's why this topic, like canvas bags or others alike keeps
> poping-up often. To me, althought I do not own any of those systems,
> but used it often [canon, nikon, oly], the oly lenses fits perfectly
> my needs, with as much quality as any other in the SLRD market, often
> more luminous, less bulky. I do like their skin colors ands greens out-
> of-the-shelf better than the canon or nikons, their TTL-flash system
> is understandable and not a moving target like used to be in nikons,
> and frankly speaking, noise to me and what I do is a endless thead
> filling subject more than an issue. But again, that's just me and my
> kind of photography when I shot digital, if I were back to the press
> biz, I'll use whatever my editor will give to me or he stated as
> desirable for the job, and that's all.
>
> And yes, your combo is a very nice carrying kit, but still I'd go with
> the oly 410 and one of their nice lenses, and not because I have
> something against nikon lurking inside me... I have no less than 4 of
> them and a few lenses here. :)
>
> Cheers.
>
>
>
> Any day above ground is a good one.
> ----------------------------------------------
> http://luis.imaginarymagnitude.net
>
>
>
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Replies: Reply from octabod at gmail.com (Luis Miguel Castañeda Navas) ([Leica] OT: Nikon D300 impressions so far)
Reply from dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings) ([Leica] OT: Nikon D300 impressions so far)
In reply to: Message from leicachris at worldnet.att.net (Christopher Williams) ([Leica] OT: Nikon D300 impressions so far)
Message from richard-lists at imagecraft.com (Richard Man) ([Leica] OT: Nikon D300 impressions so far)
Message from octabod at gmail.com (Luis Miguel Castañeda Navas) ([Leica] OT: Nikon D300 impressions so far)
Message from jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj) ([Leica] OT: Nikon D300 impressions so far)
Message from octabod at gmail.com (Luis Miguel Castañeda Navas) ([Leica] OT: Nikon D300 impressions so far)