[OSX-Users] Re: d-slr recommendations

[m.c. schraefel]

Thanks Steve.

For those interested there's a great docu on BBC about Duffy, an 
iconic london photographer of the 60s/70s

seeing him do a photo shoot outside with a single fixed lens 35mm 
manual wind - awesome.

bbc iPlayer.

mc

At 20:55 +0000 on 15/1/10, Steve Harris wrote:


>On 15 Jan 2010, at 17:46, m.c. schraefel wrote:
>
>>Thank you all for the time for such thoughtful recommendations.
>>
>>have any of you taken the plunge for "full frame" ?
>
>Yes, the D700 is FX (full frame). Overall I'm happy, but it does 
>mean carrying much bigger lenses for the same field of view.
>
>Main advantages IMHO are reduced DoF with fast primes and better 
>high ISO performance, on the D3s for example ISO 3200 looks 
>essentially noise free.
>
>Sadly, decent "walkaround" type lenses, e.g. 18-200 aren't available 
>for FX format yet. The nearest is the 24-120, which is not that 
>good. Also, wide zooms are lacking, the only good full frame one 
>(for any system) is the Nikon 14-24, which is very big and pretty 
>expensive.
>
>- Steve