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i agree, great camera but Mamiya announced about a year ago that they have stopped supporting it for repairs and parts. that's my main complaint and the reason i would tend to hesitate buying one at this point.

"Where does it say that he uses the T4?"

 

i've read numerous articles where he has state that's what he uses. it's alluded to in this interview;

 

http://www.hintmag.com/shootingstars/terryrichardson/terryrichardson01.htm

 

but you obviously haven't looked through his site. Yashica T4s are everywhere.

i think there's a reason why numerous pros like <a href="http://www.terryrichardson.com">Terry Richardson</a> still use the T4, no digital quite compares.

The AP is reporting that Henri Cartier-Bresson has died in France.

That's all I know right now.

i got mine by calling around to all the stores in the area and ended up getting one in stock at Best Buy. only negative is i had to pay sales tax but i was totally willing to in order to get the camera. i've already shot a CD album cover with it and it's an amazing camera.

i can shoot low light indoors with no flash at 1600 with the D70 and it looks just like film=really nice. i cannot with the 300d. at higher ISO range, Canon noise becomes blotchy and looks very ugly.

i really don't think you will see any quality increase from your 35mm Pentax by going

DSLR. if you primarily interested in landscape photography, i'd suggest medium format or

even larger.

 

i suppose you could match perhaps 35mm if you spend $5000, on a DSLR body and some

expensive primo lenses. but it would be a compromise as medium format would still be

better.

see this review:

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"the silver Digital Rebel is asthetically challenged. However, Canon is bringing out a black version"

 

 

thank god, the silver one is hideously ugly. i always thought they made it ugly on purpose in order to upsell people to the more expensive 10d.

 

now Canon can make double sales from their customers who bought the silver one but really wanted a black one in the first place-a perfect scheme to sell more cameras.

 

contrast that to the Nikon D70, which looks and feels so much more professional. the difference is that the Canon feels cheaper than it costs whereas the Nikon actually feels more expensive than it actually is.

the wireless remote is a cable release without the cable. in bulb mode, you press it once and the shutter opens and will stay open until you press it again. perfect for those long nigt time exposures. works well and and better than a cable release because it's wireless.

i haven't seen any at all so far with my D70.

 

i'd rather have the occaisional (and correctible) moire than less sharp images all the time like on Canon. why sacrifice on image quality all the time just to avoid the rare possibility of a the occaision little bit of moire? the fact is you get sharper images with the Nikon because it has less of an anti-aliasing filter.

actually, the Nikon has better image quality:

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<a href="http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/nikond70/">http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/nikond70/</a>

 

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further, it feels much better, more sturdy, comes with a better faster lens and is much faster (feels more like a film cam). the Canon takes a few seconds to boot up when you turn it on whereas the Nikon is instant on.

right. first to market doesn't mean better. Canon and Nikon always one up each other but when Nikon comes out with a camera body, it is always better and more refined than the Canon counterpart.

 

i find it telling that i can get a Nikon D70 for about $1,100. and it has image quality which exceeds that of even the Canon 10d at $1500, which is even supposed to a higher end model.

 

do you want to be in a position of always having a Canon camera that has a Nikon counterpart that is better?

keep in mind that the mirror on non full frame digital cameras is smaller than on a film camera or full frame digital camera. thus, it doesn't induce nearly as much shake.

 

i've had a chance to compare side by side, the Nikon D70 and the Canon 300d and can tell you that the Nikon mirror/shutter feels silky smooth and quiet compared to the Canon. i have found that i can effectively handhold with the Nikon down to 1/8 of a second with no noticeable image blurring. not so with the Canon.

"the D70 only goes to ISO 200"

 

true, but it has a top shutter speed of 1/8000 of sec. so the ISO 200 issue is not much of an issue.

i too, prefer Nikon ergonomics to Canon's. if you compare the D70 to the 300d side by side, there just is no comparison, the D70 feels so much better quality.

 

further, Nikon lenses are better than Canon's. I have a friend who is a Canon user for some years and he recently told me that he is not happy with Canon's quality control. He has a 24mm lens that exhibits severe distortion only on on edge of the image frame. He has sent it back to Canon only to receive another one with the identical problem. and get this, apparently it's a known issue with this lens and Canon users just sort of put up with it.

the Nikon D70 has mirror lock up. i have no idea where Peter got the idea that it doesn't. I guess not from experience with the camera. anyone with a D70 can read about it's mirror lock up on page 162 of the manual.

Amazon has it for $1757. already:

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What's the deal with getting Leica to upgrade an early M7 with the MP

viewfinder? If it's under Passport, is there a charge for this? If so,

what is the charge?

"Once the techniques for this are down, it's not that much work, especially with the lens blur filter in CS."

 

How does that filter work anyway? I have not been able to make heads or tails of it..

i agree that the Lifson review is totally without merit. The Digilux 2 is not supposed to be an M camera. Leica is working on a Digital M.

 

the negative points he makes about the Digilux all seem fairly moot when you consider that with a film camera, you will have to wait to process the film.

personally, i would buy the Leica based on resell value and name recognition alone. the two cameras only differences are cosmetic but the Leica Digilux 2 includes a 3 year Passport warranty, whereas the Panasonic only has a 1 year warranty. These factors are worth the extra $$ in my opinion.

 

I think the Digilux 2 is a good hold over until the Leica Digital M hits the market in a couple of years.

i think the Digilux is a good hold over until the Leica Digital M comes out in a couple of years. i do hope that will be full frame.

 

as an aside, there is some benefit to a smaller sensor in that you get more depth of field than at a given f-stop than you do with a larger sensor.

i dunno i've been told this image of mine is dramatic.

i've got a few on my site:

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mostly Hasselblad although a few were shot with a Lubitel. see if you can tell the

difference...