Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/11/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Most of the camera companies are on to the jacked up megapixel scam and have tapered off selling new cameras by MP numbers. People are knowing now that a higher MP number does not mean better pictures and could mean worse with the main issue being noise again as you are looking at smaller than necessary pixel grabbers. New camera models are now starting to taper off on MG's or even go lower from the previous years model. Sony has to be sold cheap because its appealing to the percentage of people who have Minolta glass. All six of them. And to people who think that just because it says Carl Zeiss on a a lens its really a pie on the sky Carl Zeiss lens worthy of being compared against Leica up a tier from Nikon or Canon. So Sony is less big news as in the end very little serious photography is going to be done with them - as most people have a Glass stake in either Canon or Nikon and if they want pie in the sky high end German glass they are going to get real high end German glass non name branding engineering left up to our imagination as to who did what. The Sony thing in this day and age sounds very hear today gone tomorrow. They, like Fuji does for Nikon should made a camera body for Canon or Nikon glass systems; Or best of all.... Leica R or M Or S. Glass systems.. mark@rabinergroup.com Mark William Rabiner > From: Leonard Taupier <len-001@verizon.net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 23:18:03 -0500 > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: Nikon's got something.......... > > We will have to wait for the reviews to find out. I think it is the > Sony chip but my dealer, for what it's worth, told me that the Nikon > processing engine is much better then Sony's. I saw the Sony A900 > after it was purchased and returned to the dealer with some kind of > an issue. I wasn't told what it was. > > Len > > > On Nov 28, 2008, at 11:09 PM, mehrdad wrote: > >> Jaynand, you can believe what you want but this is the sony chip >> that is in >> a900 >> >> On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 7:27 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj >> <jayanand@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> I believe it is not the Sony chip. Sure they can charge over >>> $5000, if it >>> is >>> good enough. Sony seems to have limitations above ISO400 according to >>> reviews...I bet Nikon delivers clean files at ISO 1600. It also >>> has a crop >>> mode at 10mp. >>> Cheers >>> Jayanand >>> >>> >>> On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 6:42 AM, mehrdad <msadat@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> the d3x is out, 24 meg like the sony iso to 1600, good studio >>>> camera and >>>> daylight use, unlike sony, nikon has limited the iso to 1600. the >>> question >>>> is can they ask 5k for it when sony is asking 3k? >>>> >>>> On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Chris Williams < >>>> leicachris@worldnet.att.net >>>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> D3 prices today - $4199 >>>>> >>>>> D700 - $2400 >>>>> >>>>> Something's coming I think even before the BIG announcement. >>>>> >>>>> Chris >>>>> NOLA >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Leica Users Group. >>>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more >>>>> information >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> ------------------------------------- >>>> regards, mehrdad >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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 >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> ------------------------------------- >> regards, mehrdad >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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