On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 03:55:39PM -0600, Darren Addy wrote: > "Pure Photography" indeed: > https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BYVYn_CCMAAMSMs.jpg:large
Very cute, but it misses the point entirely. If all you care about is the experience of taking photos, grab your Nikon F3, Leica M4, Pentax LX, or whatever, and wander out onto the foggy moors without putting any film at all into the camera. You'll get the pure experience without spending a dime on anything but beer and cold medicine. For me, the question isn't "how many pictures can I take", but "how many photos worth keeping can I create? and how much will I enjoy the process?". User experience, technical quality and artistic merit are all interrelated to some point, and the way that they interrelate are entirely different for the hobbiest, the professional artist, and the commercial professional. When Paul is out on a shoot for a magazine, I don't think that he cares a lot about what his camera looks like, whether the experience is pure, or pretty much anything but how little effort he needs to expend getting photos that are "good enough for the magazine". I think that the DF will appeal tremendously to a niche market, and by pulling systems out of their ready to go parts bin, Nikon was probably able to do a good job of minimizing development costs. For the photography that I do, the DF would probably be the lowest cost route to getting the best photos possible using Nikon lenses. To be sure, I'd have to see comparisons of it and the D800, whether post process noise reduction on D800 files would overcome the advantage of the DF's larger pixels. -- 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.
