> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Konstantinos Bibis > Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2003 5:32 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: EOS Digital vs Film discussion > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Chip Louie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > My guess is that in one, maybe two years (I bought a LOT of other > stuff for > > digital shooting that I'm including), I will have paid for my EOS 1D > body > > and all the other stuff I needed to go digital. > > How can you be talking about two years from now? Who says that you > wont have to spend more money 6 months from now to 'upgrade' to the > next model up from 10D. And dont fall in the trap of saying "10D is > good enough for me, i wont need to change". People who owned the D60 > said that and now they own the D60. Two years is a long long time for > digital... > > > >
Hi Konstantinos, It's easy to talk about in two years from now, what are you talking about? I decide what I do, not someone else. I've shot with EOS 1N and EOS 1NRS bodies for the last 5 years or so and still have one that I didn't sell. When the EOS 3 came out to much fanfare, I decided that I didn't need an EOS 3. When the EOS 1V came out to world wide acclaim and even the Nikon faithful were jumping over to the EOS I decided not to buy an EOS 1V. Personally I don't fell compelled to buy new stuff for the sake of buying new stuff. I buy new tools when I need them and when I see that they can offer me some advantage to making images for me. Past that I'm not that interested in new this or new that. I bought an EOS D60 knowing that a new Canon EOS digital body (now known as the D10), was coming out very soon (within a few weeks). I made this decision based on what I knew about this new body and the "old" D60 body. I developed a plan for a digital system to fill MY requirements and filled it with EOS gear that would provide the equipment that I would need to capture the images that I wanted to shoot. I knew that I would need an EOS 1D for the fast AF and frame rate it can provide. I knew that the new body would have the same sensor as the D60, I knew that Canon would claim to have "improved" the AF performance (of course Canon said that about the D60 too), I knew that it would have a "better" chassis. Then I went out and bought the D60 because it had a proven reliability track record with no major initial quality problems and because it was a proven image producer for the kinds of images (table tops and portraits), that I wanted to produce. I didn't and still don't care about what the Canon marketing people have to say about their new product. I listened to the people here and on several other websites to people who actually have and use their EOS digital cameras to produce images and hard output. I also listened to the armchair generals and Monday morning quarterbacks who have little or no digital experience saying that film is "better" than digital. Then I went out and looked at the best wet prints (small and VERY large and what machines they were printed on), that I could find produced by the digital camera bodies I was interested in. Then I judged for myself if these Canon digital bodies were good enough to meet MY very strict ideals of output and image quality. Ask anyone here if I'm picky and they will tell you I'm obsessed with final image quality and processing. Read my old posts, it's all in there. If I was still shooting with film, just the money I save from shooting digitally now would easily pay for my 1D in less than a year. I loved shooting and printing in my B&W lab, digital gives me the option to work the RAW files over and get the most out of the file and onto paper. This is just like being in a darkroom but it requires different skills and techniques. I started up my own B&W darkroom almost 35 years ago and I'm still learning new tricks and techniques. This is the same as wet lab work and nobody can know all of the tricks, even to know "enough" will take many lifetimes to absorb and use. The digital process is just as complex (okay maybe a little more), and just as satisfying in the end to this photographer. I think that many of the old school photographers who enjoy darkroom work will enjoy the digital darkroom too if they can get enough help to get up the steep learning curve that will be required to produce good prints. Maybe you should go to a professionally produced seminar for digital photographers. This way you could get some hands on experience with digital and see the images that can be produced. Once you do you may change your song if you can find a way to justify the costs which IMO are the most formidable part of going digital at this point in time. Cheers/Chip * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
