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Nikon D2H and new lenses!
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I have to agree that YOU may be actually just as productive Photoshopping images, but isn't this simply because your end product is online (digital)? I doubt a print photographer does much manipulation to their pictures. I am not trying to argue with you, I am very interested and you seem to have insight.
By the time I'm ready to sell my EOS 3 my dream digital SLR will be available (and it WILL simulate different types of films, somehow---this request was posted on photo.net and many people have agreed). Thanks for the interesting information/perspective.
By the time I'm ready to sell my EOS 3 my dream digital SLR will be available (and it WILL simulate different types of films, somehow---this request was posted on photo.net and many people have agreed). Thanks for the interesting information/perspective.
Yeah, I didn't want it to get to sounding too much like an argument, but it started to anyway.
Some more insight though (as if you haven't had enough): Print photographers often just pay someone else to do essentially in the darkroom what I do on the computer. For our print sales, we basically print the file we already adjusted, and prefer that output to an unadjusted one.
As for the dream DSLR simulating films, I am sure it will happen, perhaps finally by name. Currently there are just parameters to adjust, but the effect is about the same. The 1D and 1DS do this. They have a setting recomended for portraits, comparable to reala or some other portrait film. There is a setting for high saturation and enhanced greens, like Velvia, and others too.
Some more insight though (as if you haven't had enough): Print photographers often just pay someone else to do essentially in the darkroom what I do on the computer. For our print sales, we basically print the file we already adjusted, and prefer that output to an unadjusted one.
As for the dream DSLR simulating films, I am sure it will happen, perhaps finally by name. Currently there are just parameters to adjust, but the effect is about the same. The 1D and 1DS do this. They have a setting recomended for portraits, comparable to reala or some other portrait film. There is a setting for high saturation and enhanced greens, like Velvia, and others too.
Yeah, they know that image quality comes down to lenses. 4MP is decent for most purposes.
Pixel-count is important, but you can have the greatest sensor in the world, but put a **** lens on there (say a sigma
and its going to be soft and full of aberrations.I think it comes down to the individual photographer.
Pick up a copy of IDN's Imagemaker's issue, and there's quite a few photographers profiled in there who do extensive work in photoshop even if they shoot film.
A scan of a medium-format neg is just mind-boggling with what you can tweak/
Originally posted by Moxiemike
USb 2.0/..... hate to say, if Macs had USB 2.0 (and i know they do now....) then there's no reason for firewire on a 4mp cam. files will be quick enough over USB.
What about when the D2X comes out, it will have USB as well and will be closer to 10MP.
Going to the D2H will not be a seamless migration since they abandoned Firewire, that is the point. The D1H had it, the D2H does not. Maybe they should have borrowed something from Apple, and offered USB and Firewire on the same port, you just use a different cable.
If the D2X does not have Firewire, I will keep my D1X. They probably switched to USB because people complained that it wasn't USB and yet they dont even own one. USB is a host-based setup where Firewire is not. That by itself will cause some problems.
I can really see all the photographers at half time of a huge sporting event, needing to flick through a 512MB card's worth of images on a big laptop LCD to find those few great images that they need to transmit via mobile phone... and having to wait 10 minutes to transfer at ~800k per second.
Meanwhile their Canon 1D using competitor has downloaded their shots in a couple of minutes, and is already sending the best ones down the line.
People neededing the speed of the D2H, and owning Apple laptops will be made to think twice.
Firrewire on D2h
If you are spending upwards of $3000 on a digital slr, and own a laptop without USB2, but have firewire (probably a mac), you could buy a firewire card reader. At less than $100, if you need the speed of firewire vs usb 1.1, go buy one and quit complaining about the d2h not haing firwire.
Nikon AF > Canon AF on the film SLR's so i don't know what you are talking about above.
4mp is good for a single page of published material. Use Photoshop to 3x the resolution, not 12mp but much improved from 4mp. Plus, for the people needing to shoot sequences, and using the entire sequence, ie Skateboarding Magazines, this camera is great, since the frames are not going to each be 1 page, but rather 10-12 frames over 1-2 pages.
In my opinion, the 1.5x focal length multiplier is more of an issue than the 4mp. What am i supposed to do with my fisheye on this camera? I see that both canon an nikon have released 12/13mm fisheyes specifically for the digital slr's.
If you are spending upwards of $3000 on a digital slr, and own a laptop without USB2, but have firewire (probably a mac), you could buy a firewire card reader. At less than $100, if you need the speed of firewire vs usb 1.1, go buy one and quit complaining about the d2h not haing firwire.
Nikon AF > Canon AF on the film SLR's so i don't know what you are talking about above.
4mp is good for a single page of published material. Use Photoshop to 3x the resolution, not 12mp but much improved from 4mp. Plus, for the people needing to shoot sequences, and using the entire sequence, ie Skateboarding Magazines, this camera is great, since the frames are not going to each be 1 page, but rather 10-12 frames over 1-2 pages.
In my opinion, the 1.5x focal length multiplier is more of an issue than the 4mp. What am i supposed to do with my fisheye on this camera? I see that both canon an nikon have released 12/13mm fisheyes specifically for the digital slr's.