Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/06/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Canon's offering (5D) is quite long in the tooth - also remember that the D700 is supposed to have all the low light capabilities of the D3, and a body construction as good as the D300, so the price looks reasonable. These are rumors, but IMHO a Nikon camera with roughly these specs will be have to be released sooner rather than later. Cheers Jayanand On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com> wrote: > For Nikon to come out with a prosumer full frame for three grand with the > Canon's costing two or less that's a guaranteed marketing bomb. > Nikon has not been stupid in that direction over the past decade quite the > opposite. > Therefore I believe its hogwash. > People making stuff up. > Sure it will be a bit higher its first few months out but not three. > Three is death. > Two a much nicer smarter friendlier happy number. > They're going to match Canon of course and do one better. > Then canon comes back and does the same. > Repeat and rinse. > > > > mark@rabinergroup.com > Mark William Rabiner > > > > > From: Frank Filippone <red735i@earthlink.net> > > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > > Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:21:30 -0700 > > To: 'Leica Users Group' <lug@leica-users.org> > > Subject: RE: [Leica] "Budget" full frame Nikon SLR > > > > Question: > > > > There appears to be a trend to publish the image (pixel) sizes of the > image > > both for FX and DX formats.... > > > > Why would any rational person use a DX ( smaller) format if he had the > > larger format available to him? ( It is called cropping..... in old > > fashioned speak) > > > > Someone is going to say... to keep memory space down.... like a second > $50 > > 8GB card is going to break the bank..... I don't believe that one..... > > > > Does the write speed improve with the smaller image files so the buffer > dies > > not fill as often? Is that really a big deal these days? > > > > Frank Filippone > > red735i@earthlink.net > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >