Digital BW, The Print

Seth Rossman wrote:

>Take a gander over to the D1 list.  WHY spend $4000 on a 300 2.8, when the
>80-200 now does the job?  Why spend $7000+ on a 400 2.8, when the 300 2.8
>works.
>  
>
Try getting a field of view equivalent to a 20mm in 35mm format?  

You need a 12.5 mm rectilinear... Seen a lot of those around?

Suddenly I have people idiotically touting digital's multiplier as a plus?

Yeah, there's a lot of photo-j and landscape work done with a 400 2.8 
huh? Sorry, the only people who benefit are sports and nature/animal 
photogs...  I'm a sports photog at base, but I bought 300 2.8 and 400 
2.8 lenses or rented them when needed.

Why do you think Canon users are so happy to see full-frame EOS Digital 
bodies?

If Nikon chooses not to go full-frame digital (and I have heard that 
they WILL be offering one this fall - you really don't believe they 
would license to a full-frame Kodak body, the DCS 14n,  if they weren't 
bringing out one on their own?) then I'll simply buy a DCS 14n or 
whatever else..  Nikon loses the sales..  They keep that up, they might 
as well just become a lens maker..

I use Nikon gear, but it seems like Nikon is institutionally unable to 
react to a fast-changing market... If they don't come out with a 
full-frame offering they might as well focus on the consumer market and 
forget about pros.  Nikon blew it similarly on fast auto-focus in the 
early 90's, and saw how the loss of pros quickly affected Nikon's 
consumer sales.. Canon ended up converting a huge number of Nikon pros 
simply because the Nikon auto-focus was useless for sports when compared 
to Canon's offerings..  If they want to replicate the same mistake again 
and find themselves with dwindling market share,. so be it..  I'll 
simply move to Canon then..  Brand loyalty to Nikon is fine, but I'm NOT 
about to commit financial hara kiri to remain brand loyal..  If I'm 
going to buy all new glass to support digital, I'll go with Canon.. Why? 
 Because Nikon has for years told us it promised future interoperability 
of it's lens offerings with its bodies.  They marketed the fact that we 
could use all our old Nikon glass with the newest bodies, and often, 
vice versa..  Now, we need to extremely expensive newly designed wide 
angle optics to use digital?  Be realistic..  It's unsustainable as 
corporate policy AND is hypocrisy given Nikon's longtime profession of 
future interoperability..

 
Keith

 

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