Good Company
Hey, now I MUST get the D70. Glenn Reynolds just got one and Fletch told him I was on the verge. And whaddya know... my first InstaLanche! I feel like Cinderella (even though he has transported me to Herndon, Virginia... Fragments from Herndon... I dunno, it lacks something, somehow).
Meanwhile, even the wife is saying "go ahead and get the most camera for the money. And make it last. And, considering our ages, it might not even have to last THAT long!" Wives. Can't live with'em, can't live with'em.
Okay. Pile on and twist my arm just a bit more and I'll not have any choice but to go Nikon one more time!
And BTW, I'm going to be working to get the spiderweb pix ready to go along with some yet-to-be-written text to submit someplace soon for fall publication. And I am getting expert help! Stay tuned.
Comments
Congrats on your Insta-lanche Fred. But I noticed that people stop by but they don't stop and chat. It is fun though to see the insane counter action. GO NIKON!
Posted by: Marie Freeman | March 31, 2004 8:56 AM
Congrats on your Insta-lanche Fred. But I noticed that people stop by but they don't stop and chat. It is fun though to see the insane counter action. GO NIKON!
Posted by: Marie Freeman | March 31, 2004 8:56 AM
Just as with computers, buy the best, most advanced digital camera that you can afford. They are useful (and used) longer and have that COOL factor when people find out what you have.
Posted by: bogie | March 31, 2004 8:58 AM
Fred: do you already have a drawer full of Nikkor lenses? Or would this be a whole new game too? It's a beautiful camera, no question about it.
Posted by: Pica | March 31, 2004 9:07 AM
Hey, your adventure is really rolling! Nice that we can all be excited along with you!
Posted by: Ana | March 31, 2004 9:19 AM
Got here from Instapundit, and I'm very interested in getting either a D70 or a Canon Digital Rebel, and would be interested in your thoughts on choosing one or the other. Nice spiderweb pictures, BTW.
Posted by: Phil Manhard | March 31, 2004 9:23 AM
I'm in much the same quandary, Fred. I'm leaning to the D70 simply because it handles my Nikkor AF lenses I've bought over the years (and never use since I can't be bothered with film processing.) Still, one thousand simoleans is A LOT OF DOUGH!!!!!! Argghhh...
Posted by: Scott Chaffin | March 31, 2004 10:24 AM
Get the Nikon. Dumbest damned thing I've done lately was to buy the Canon G5. A stupid fiddley case design from a company that should know better.
Do not buy on price unless you must...you will regret it everytime you pick up the camera.
Congrats on the Insta-link and kudos! IMO-You deserved recognition ages ago.
Posted by: feste | March 31, 2004 12:17 PM
I'm sort of tending toward spending now to enjoy for the long haul. Heck. This tax refund hits the Money Market, it'll just go for Depends in the Failing Arms Rest Home someday. How uncool is that! I'm gonna borrow a D100 tomorrow, then compare the D70 to a known quantity. Will need to think about lenses, too. Guess I'd probably need three: macro, wide-to-medium zoom, and tele-zoom, plus polarizing filter, camera and lens cases... Just when I'd gotten use to the convenience of grabbing a camera and running off to grab the light before it changes. But I hauled all that for thirty years before digital, could do it again. --FF
Posted by: fredf | March 31, 2004 12:49 PM
You knew that the know it all would be by here sooner or later eh? Well, here I am!
You should defiantly look at either the D70 or the canon digital rebel. Even though there are higher mega pixel camera's available, you won't find anything with comparable image quality for less than $2000
The major difference between these two cameras and the other "pro-sumer" cameras out there is the size of the sensor.
Check this out (from dp review):
The other implication of a larger sensor is larger photodiode sizes (larger pixel pitch - a measurement of the distance from the top corner of one pixel to the next). Larger photodiode size makes for lower noise and higher sensitivity.
(That’s from a review of the Olympus e-1 but it's the info about sensor size that is important.)
The Nikon and Canon have a sensor the size of the one in the graphic labeled: "Canon EOS D-30..."
More than twice as large as the other sub $1000 cameras!
Here's the full article:
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/olympuse1/
Posted by: Jeremiah | March 31, 2004 10:28 PM