Digital BW, The Print

Ginny wrote:
>  >And, I must admit, I still have NOT bought a digital camera. I'm
>>waiting for something in the 12-14 megpixel range to be affordable.
>>Or has that happened alrdy?


At 5:32 AM +0000 2/22/06, Clayton Jones responded:

>"Affordable" is relative, of course.  Probably the Canon 5D is the
>best thing going right now, 12mp and about $3K.  The 20D, at 8mp, is
>another excellent price/image quality deal at about $1.5K (and the
>Rebel XT is even lower cost for same image quality, just lacks some
>features).  I'm using an 8mp Canon Pro-1 (smaller sensor than 20D, so
>lesser image quality).  8mp is enough to make acceptable 11x14s and
>still have room to crop.  I consider it to be the minimum acceptable
>resolution.
>

Nikon's brand new D200 should be considered.

Full comparison table between the 5D, 20D and the D200:

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/nikond200/page25.asp

That page also includes a nice bit offering some perspective on the 
megapixel chase.
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