Digital BW, The Print

In fairness the Nikon D1H and D1x are the competition for the 1D and 1Ds, 
and they have decent pro-standard bodies.

In article <04c601c2dcdd$9fa578a0$034cfea9@...>, 
julianthomas@... (Julian Thomas) wrote:

> only if you think the F80 is a pro camera. The eosIV - which is the 
> base for
> the IDs has the best weather proofing of any camera. When Nikon brings 
> out
> something where the camera body is as good as the F5 it will compete as 
> a
> camera with the Eos 1Ds. I can't really understand why camera are being
> judged on pixels alone and all the other criteria of judging a camera 
> are
> somehow ignored. It is quite possible - and samples from the Kodak bear
> itout - to have a high pixel count and crap image quality. Don't forget 
> that
> the last lot of Kodak sample images had to be pulled from the website 
> cos
> they were so bad.
> 
> Julian