Digital BW, The Print

And good centimes they are... I shoot Canon, but share all of your issues and sentiments. 

C. David Tobie
Global Product Technology Manager
Imaging Color Solutions
Datacolor inc. 
cdtobie@...
www.datacolor.com

On Mar 12, 2012, at 6:22 PM, Louis de Stoutz <loudest@...> wrote:

> On 12.03.2012 22:24, Bob Frost wrote:
> > The D800 allows you to take 4 sizes of raw images - 36, 30, 24, and 15MP.
> 
> Very interesting. I wonder if the reduced sizes would bring a reduction 
> in noise, which is depending on pixel density on the sensor, maybe it 
> wouldn't.
> 
> Sorry to jump on the OT bandwagon, but this thread coincides with one of 
> my current preoccupations. I am a very happy user of a D700. It is this 
> camera which finally managed to make me accept digital picture taking. I 
> can use (almost) all my old lenses which I had bought as a teenager some 
> 40 years ago! (That's Nikon to you...)
> 
> Since I have long been considering the purchase of a Hasselblad, I am 
> now very tempted by the D800, which I would complement with a Harrtblei 
> 40mm to provide for studio and architectural needs.
> 
> Last but not least, the video capabilities of this camera are a major 
> asset to me, since it would allow me to do at last some 
> cinematographic-quality filming. The big problem with amateur and 
> semi-pro video cameras is the very small size of the sensor, because 
> this implies short focal lenses. You can hardly play with the separation 
> of planes, having constantly too much depth of field. The 24x36mm sensor 
> size of the D800 on the other hand is perfect. And you can use all those 
> wonderful lenses... And they all have a manual focusing ring, which is 
> the only way to do some watchable filming.
> 
> Just mes 2 centimes
> 
> Louis
> 


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