Re: Nikon D200 (for alt)

Hi Yves,
I'm a camera junkie in a way--I own pinholes all the way up to 4x5, and
teach all traditional camera formats.

I've shot digital for going on 3 years now because of the ease of deriving
color separation negs for gum. No scanning, no dust! I have a Sony
cybershot and a Canon Powershot s50. I much prefer the Canon for image
quality, but still, occasionally the edges of the image will be unsharp and
have color fringing. A major reason for going to SLR though (aside from
image quality of course, as a given) is shutter lag. And I have a whole slew
(sp?) of Nikon lenses.

I have a process of editing that works for me. I never edit in
camera--can't do that well enough from an lcd screen. I download at the end
of the day and view it in "slide show" mode, where I get delete happy. I
never moan about the "one that got away" but accept that what I have is what
I have. I did this same process with all my traditional negs this fall-went
through all of them and tossed about 100 contacts. I try to edit my images
as well as my mouth.

Do you know what I just found out??? Henri Cartier-Bresson did just that,
and CUT individual frames of his best shots so all could fit in one
shoebox!!! He regrets cutting the frames from the strip because they are
hard to print--or he did, anyway, cuz he's deceased.

You are right that digital does become an image management issue--you can
store negatives in a shoebox on a shelf and forget about them, but digital
you do have to whatever the term is migrate or something to media...Oh,
however, talk about image management--after my parents died I went through
20,000 slides and had to edit those down to a mere 8000. That took a lot of
time, and Salvation army got a lot of slide carousels, which, sadly, are
soon going to be of no use.

Dan, thanks for the apples to apples comparison on digital and that guy's
website, and the other website URL. I have yet to be a digicamera techie
and need all the help I can get. Jack, thank HEAVENS you found the D200 to
be better than your Olympus...since I made my purchase yesterday.
chris

> 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
Received on Tue Feb 7 09:10:06 2006