On 2 May 2005 at 13:55, John Lovda wrote:
> My wife just purchased a Nikon CoolPix 8400. It is an
> 8mp, point and shoot camera with a 24-85 equivalent
> zoom. The widest, wide angle out there. She picked
> that particular camera just for that reason. She
> loves it.
Good choice, indeed no other way to get signficant wide-angle with a
hybrid/non-SLR, but still too large for a pocket-camera....;((
And once the bag gets bigger anyway, the step towards a real DSLR
becomes justified very easily....too easily....
(but that's perhaps because I can't vision anything ergonomic
inbetween pocket-camera and (the smallest-possible) backpack....;))
OTOH, an older Sigma 14mm/f3.5 is all you need for a relatively cheap
configuration; even on a half-size sensor DSLR still wider than an
24mm equivalent....
(that old f3.5 is also a lot more compact than the current f2.8 btw,
if you stay with that argument)
Willem (who couldn't vision shooting car pix, both indoors/total &
interior/detail, with any larger focal length, on a DCS3....so even a
24mm-equivalent pocket-camera would be a compromise (but 'luckily'
the flash capability would have been anyway)) Jan
--
Bye,
Willem-Jan Markerink
The desire to understand
is sometimes far less intelligent than
the inability to understand
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