Digital BW, The Print

Nikon has been so successful with the D70 line, I imagine that they'll
look to price point vs. features in their upcoming D200.  I have a friend
who is reasonably well heeled, and he emailed me all excited about the
D50.  Just an example of market sweet spot considerations.

I'm eager to see if the D200 has (1) a great VF and (2) AI/AIS lens
metering and (3) a price point ~2K to attract a large enough number of
buyers.  Hold onto the Nikon faithful who want to manual focus their
Nikon lenses and not spend a mint to do so.   While some on this list might
not mind, Canon's $3K+ body is a bit pricey for a many, many camera
buyers.

We'll see. For me, I'll certainly wait and see what the D200 has to offer
before making any decision (and see how the Canon  D5 performs in
practice).

Nevertheless, the D5 with "full frame" at that price point is still a big
shot across the bow to all the DSLR manufacturers.

For me, it certainly puts on hold my plans for a Mamiya RZ body and
a few lenses and another scanner. As much as I love B&W film shooting
and souping, the economics might change with the D5 introduction.

Scott

Paul Aparycki wrote:

>
>
> >>Shoot, I'll just wait another an aditional year and but it
> >>used for a
> >>thousand:)))
>
> >Might just drive the prices down on used 1ds models and
> >possibly on new Mk2's
>
> >Regards, Walt
>
> More importantly for those of you who drool over press releases, it will
> cause Nikon to hurry up with their full frame chip . . . maybe (they are
> still at a price point considerably higher than Canon), and it will be
> interesting to see if Minolta, Pentax etc rush forth in a foolhardy 
> manner.
> Canon still has to address their 1/4 success rate with their chip . . . if
> there is a mad rush for this camera there might well be long delays . . .
> that NEVER makes for a happy customer.
>
> It makes me think of the viruses  . . . oops, excuse me, the 
> "improved" OSs
> we have had from Apple and MS over the recent years . . . put on the 
> market
> just to be ahead of the other guy, even though the product was barely 
> ready.
>
> When ALL the cameras available are full frame that will be a step 
> forward. I
> for one (along with a few thousand others) don't appreciate my
> multi-thousand dollar wide optics like a 14 f2.8 suddenly become a
> grotesquely overweight 21 f2.8 . . . that is not progress . . . it is BS.
>
> Paul Aparycki
>
>