One thing you may (or may not) have missed is the wide angle problem...that is, the D30/60 both crop the image area from 35mm film and the effect is as if your lenses were 1.6x longer than they are with 35mm film.
This might screw up your "couple of pretty good lenses" especially if, as seems to be in vogue nowadays, you use a super wide angle or a fisheye for your skiing shots. Just thought I would mention this in case you hadn't thought about it. The 1D, which is a whole lot more money, reduces the focal length multiplier to 1.3x, but again, it is another order of magnitude (well, almost) financially. And I second Evrim's story about his sprintscan 4000...I have one too, and I rarely use it anymore, but I am a telephoto kind of guy, so the wide angle situation isn't a problem for me. Mike Alexander McLeod wrote: > > Another question, and a pretty common dilemma. I have used Canon products > for quite a while, for years an FX 1 and more recently an EOS 5. I have a > couple of pretty good lenses for my purposes: basically travel and ski > photography. I had anticipated keeping my EOS 5 and getting a good scanner > (FS4000US or CoolScan IV) and a printer like the Canon S900. I have a lot > of slides I use in my university classes and printing some of the more > appealing ones (for me) seems cost efficient. I could keep shooting slides > and life would go on as usual. > > But now I have heard more and more about Canon going digital, etc. on this > site. The D 60 reads like a step in the right direction. Discard the idea > of a scanner, have the older slides I really like printed by my local guy, > and still get the photo printer. Instant gratification and only a slight(?) > drop off in resolution. Maybe a problem with skiing but I also have a > digicam for that. I'm not getting any younger and don't care to wait five > (four, three?) years for another "breakthrough." > > Have I missed anything in this meandering. Is there anything else I should > plug into this equation, other than that I am teaching less and therefor the > slides per se are not as important as they used to be? > > I guess the bottom line is, should I replace the EOS 5 with the D 60. > > Thanks in advance for your insights, > Sandy * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
