dippe1

It is interesting to see that this forum seems much more mature than fotosidan.se (Sweden) where mentioning Ken

Rockwell immediately made me an outcast in the same thread I started there a month or so ago. Here somebody

thought KR shouldn't be the only source of info. That is much more sensible and I agree on that but despite that he's an

excellent photographer and his level of knowledge surpasses most of the members at photo.net (how many of us have a

US patent in the field of photography?).

Please keep up the good habit of not killing the threads by being "besserwissers" (smart-asses)!

Enjoy your thinking!

Cheers

Carl Stone wrote

"Apple does not discount current models before new models are released."

No, but the store selling them usually tries to get rid of the old ones if they still have any in stock by lowering the price.

I have a Macbook 2 GHz and 2 GB RAM (and an external 22" monitor) and it works fine for me with my D2Xs and 5D

RAW files but I don't think it is fast enough for eg. 5D mkII. In my experience (I used to be a salesman focused on Apple

products) try to get this generation of Mac immediately before the next one is released. Spend the money left (?) on as

much RAM as you can and possibly get a third party hard disk installed because Apple for some reason always seems to

fiddle around with the original HD cache making their modified disks quite a bit slower than necessary. I never managed to

find out why.

Don't you have something like a consumer ombudsman in Canada? We have them here in Sweden (because way too many shops

tend to forget you as soon as you walk out their doors). Other than that I agrre with the others. Hopefully Nikon sees that your

difficulties are also noted overseas. Not good Nikon!

Boys toys! Digital is fast, convenient, expensive and so-so quality. Analog is still getting better as long as scanners evolve and

they do. I listened to a Kodak salesman in 1997 who told us a Kodachrome 25 resolution is about 25 Mpix. I still belive that,

happily taking pictures with my D70s and 5D.

Check out the Tamron 200-500mm. You can easily handhold it and the picture quality is all you can ask for spending that money. Attaching an

extender is in my opinion a waste. You can use it occasionally but not to permanently to be able to shoot at 500mm. I owned this lens myself once

and used it together with a Nikon D200 with good results. You can check out this and the two following pictures here

http://gdmedia.eu/pp/index.php?showimage=40

and this one and the following three pics

http://gdmedia.eu/pp/index.php?showimage=28

Cheers