On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 12:53:27PM -0600, Tom C wrote: > > If one's more concerned about the BANG, then get the most BANG and > realize it'll take more BUCK.
A friend of mine won at a round of Silicon Valley roulette, and is now a full time professional landscape photographer. On most years, he even makes enough money to cover his travel expenses. He's a Canonite, and some years back bought a 1D3, which set him back something close to $8,000 IIRC. A few weeks ago, he rented a Nikon D800E and did a comparison shoot between it, and his 1D3. The short answer is that on 12x18 prints at low ISO, the differences between the two cameras were detectible, but subtle. The bigger the print, or the higher the ISO, the bigger the differences were, in favor of the Nikon. It seems that no matter what gear you have, something else will do something better. I was a bit shocked when we looked it up, and it seems that 1D3 bodies are going for less than $1,500 on KEH. (Interesting: a D700 is at KEH for $1570, though I suspect the D7100 may perform nearly as well) -- Larry Colen [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
