Re: Nikon D200 (for alt)

Christina,

a digital camera is a very attractive proposition, I don't know if you used
one before or not but I think the best suggestion I could make before you
spent hard earn money, is to learn what kind of photograph you are. It's
simple but when you think about it, it make a lot of sense. With digital
camera, many people because they can scrap image they don't want after the
fact, will trigger the shutter every five feet and when the memory is full,
no problem, just tranfer it to a portable disk and you wind up as many many
people do, managing images rather then "making" photograph. Maybe it wont be
your case but it was mine, I took about 15000 shots with a digital camera, I
became obsess with sharpness and other things like that but I forgot the
essential.

I decided one morning to sell it and buy a medium format (film) camera. It
was one the best decision I made in a long time and it didn't take long for
me to realise that my behaviour change completely and I'm more satisfied of
what I do now. I also have a cheap 4x5 that works fine and I'm going to
build myself a very simple, low weight, fix focus and hand held 4x5,
hopefully this will allow me to make much larger print keeping the qualities
that I want.

It seems I'm better off with a film camera but that's for me, for you it
maybe a very different story, I admit I still have a small 3.2 mp digital
camera for snapshots which I practically don't use now.

Regards
Yves

----- Original Message -----
From: "Christina Z. Anderson" <zphoto@montana.net>
To: "Alt List" <alt-photo-process-L@usask.ca>
Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2006 10:41 AM
Subject: Nikon D200 (for alt)

> OK, since we can talk about motorcycles I have a quickie question (i'm
just
> full of questions this week). I KNOW there are digital camera techies on
> this list, and I am not one.
>
> Does ANYONE have an "in" on the real scoop about the D200 and its expected
> date of arrival? I know it came out, it was recalled because of banding
> problems, autofocus problems, etc. I've searched dpreview.com but must not
> be using the right question. I've also searched Nikon and the same. I
think
> there was just a big digitrade show so maybe someone on the list will
know.
>
> I will be heading to New Orleans in about a month so that is why I am
> concerned.
>
> Is there a comparable camera to this that is better? Price is $1700 body
> only which is pretty pricey...
>
> If this is not alt enough you can email me offlist.
>
> I promise I'm doing alt with it...
> chris
> ps thanks for all the Epson gassing answers--I forwarded them to the
person
> having the problems.
>
>
Received on Tue Feb 7 01:50:43 2006