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<p>Wow, yesterday Canon was selling the 5D MK3 (Refurbished) for $2239.37 from Canon Direct:<br />http://shop.usa.canon.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_10051_10051_309850_-1<br>

They had a 20% off New Years Eve sale from the regular $2,799.21 price. This is the lowest that I have seen, and $1000 less than they are selling the body only new.</p>

<p>Has anyone found an Album Company that is using Fujicolor Crystal Archive - Professional - Deep Matte Paper. I need a leather-bound 8x10 parent album in horizontal format. </p>

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How does the Voigtlander 28mm 1.9 Ultron screw mount work on the M8 with the LTM/M adapter vs a native M mount?

<p>I agree I love Leica, however I don't really want my street camera to cost more than my car and (with the M8) have worse high ISO performance than a $500 camera. The crop factor 1.3 vs 1.5x is similar. The Sony sensor should be one of the best high ISO APS sensors on the market.</p>

<p>I am thinking about a new wide-angle take everywhere camera and was considering an M8. I read that the Sony NEX-3 and NEX-5 will be announced on May 11th<br /> <br /> http://asia.cnet.com/crave/2010/04/26/almost-official-sony-s-mirrorless-system-to-be-named-nex/<br /> <br /> Do you think that this will be a decent alternative to the M8 with 21mm 2.8<br /> <br /> The Sony has a 1.5x APS-C 14 megapixel ExmorHD sensor <br /> <br /> http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-gives-nex3-and-nex5-names-to-its-first-ultra-compact-interc/<br /> <br /> The 16mm F2.8 IS pancake lens will have a 24mm equivalent FOV.<br /> <br /> I am thinking that for much less money I could get a decent wide-angle solution with much higher image quality than the M8 in a smaller size but with similar background blur as the M8 w/ 21mm. Any thoughts.<br /> <br /> <br /></p>

<p>I am looking for a M8 or some variation. What is the best value now. It seems the M8.2 is about $1000 more than the M8 currently. If I am using the camera for strictly B&W work, with the original M8 bee equal in image quality to the M8.2? Is the shutter upgrade (to eliminate the loudness) necessary? I am also looking for a 21mm lens, what is the best value currently<strong>?</strong></p>

Thank you everyone for your help, I will use the Raptor for OS and programs.

 

The other drive is a 250gig Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3250310AS and is SATA 3.0 however I think it only has 8mb of cache. My third drive for storage is a 500gig Western Digital WD2500KS Caviar SE16 with 16mb cache, however the drive test seem to show the Seagate as being faster.

 

I will most likely put the windows swap file on one and the photoshop scratch on the other in a small partition at the front of each drive.

 

FYI I also use a separate external SATA RAID5 setup for archiving.

Is it best to have the fastest hard drive for the Win XP OS and Programs or for

use as the Photoshop Scratch Disk?

 

I am setting up a new computer and have one 7200 rmp drive and one 10,000 rpm

Raptor drive.

 

Which would benefit more from the faster hard drive?

I saw the Canon EOS 20D today while assisting someone shooting a wedding. The photographer is sponsored by Canon (they use his shots for advertising). The camera looked just like the 10d except on the back panel where your right thumb sits is a cool joystick like toggle. The sensor is 8.3 MP, I don't know the crop. There was a 580ex Speedlight flash loaned to this gentleman as well which he said was more powerful than the 550ex. Also, he said they hit the market in two weeks. The consensus was that it wrote to the flash card as fast or faster than the Mark 2. RAW files popped up amazingly fast.

I beleive the Canon EOS Elan 7e has a better (true) mirror lock up than the A2E's mirror delay feature. But that is only from reading this site, I own an A2 and A2E.

I find this a very important question. I do almost all of my "darkroom" work on the computer now with Photoshop. About a year ago I purchased the Nikon Coolscan IV ED which scans 35mm at 2900 dpi. This produces a 2870 x 4200 pixel image that at 8 bit is a 34.6 Megabyte TIFF file of excellent quality both color and black and white.

 

I made the decision to purchase the Coolscan IV because I love my Pentax MX 35mm camera and manual lens setup. I thought that this would be the best of both worlds, which for the most part it is.

 

The software that comes with the Coolscan "Digital ICE" I beleive, does an excellent job of taking scratches and dust off of all negatives and slides except Kodachrome and Black and White film (it works on Kodak T400CN B&W). I like to shoot Black and White especially Kodak Tri-X 400 and Kodak T-Max. This film requires hours of cloning work to remove dust particles in Photoshop.

 

I will never give up my film cameras or scanning in that film. It is a great method to have your cake and eat it too you might say. But I could not resist giving in to the technology of a 5 megapixel digital camera for under $500.00. I justified the purchase of the Nikon Coolpix 5000 because I have another child on the way in less than a month and wanted to save money on film and processing as well as get more instantaneous results out to family etc.

 

The Coolpix 5000 gives me a 2560 x 1920 pixel image that saved at at 8 bit is 14.1 megabytes (at 16 bit it is 28.2 M). I take all photos at the RAW setting and have Photoshop convert them into TIFFs after I make my adjustments. I am finding that when I get a good photo with good lighting it nearly matches that of the full film scan image. The 5 megapixel images are very sharp and have excellent color. There is no "second generation" blurriness however slight that you might get with the film scanner.

 

So my long winded contribution would be both, if you have the opportunity. The downside of the digital lens on my "prosumer" camera is that it has an enormous depth of field even at 2.8, so it will never be able to replace my Pentax MX for certain types of shots.

Newsday photographer Moises Saman who was missing in Iraq, yesterday relaeased from Iraq custody with other journalists and peace activists into Jordan was shown with his Leica. I am assumimng that he used it on assignment as a photojournalist in Iraq.