Amen to what you wrote. Jim A.
> From: Caveman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 10:28:01 -0400 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Deegetal Schmeedgital > Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Resent-Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 10:26:32 -0400 > > In the good old days of film, what eventually mattered was the lens and > film quality. Except the case of some very particular applications, the > camera body was just a box holding the lens in front of the film. Put a > standard 50/1.7 lens on the simplest cheapest body, use a tripod, and > you get the same image quality as the next "pro" guy using a $3000 > camera body. Yes he has a better viewfinder some extra gadgets and so on > but the image quality is the same. > > With the advent of digital, bodies and lens are of equal importance. The > sensor type and MP, the image processing algorithms, everything is as > important as the lens. If you want to be succesful in digital, making > nice lenses ain't sufficient. > > Seems that this is not very clear for P. >
