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Looking at the latest flurry of discussions among Canon users regarding
Nikon's latest Digital SLR offering I can only conclude that with digital
camera owners it is more about tech than photography. As soon as a digital
camera with a higher spec gets released nearly every owner of a "lesser"
body wants an upgrade. Photography is about making images, the photographic
industry is not the microprocessor industry, although certain companies are
striving to make one into the other. 300D owners up in arms and in quotes: http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1031&message=7448549
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-You'd see the same flurry, maybe to a lesser degree, when a new film body
was introduced, too. I'd agree, though, with digiheads, the specs are the
thing, not the photograph. But a digihead is distinct from a photographer,
or a digital photographer. The new Nikon interests me because of its price,
flash exposure comp, selectable metering and spot meter, all of which the
RebelD lack, and the 10D lacks spot meter, which I use a lot. -In defense of SOME digiheads...who actually ARE interested in the
photograph...
Digital photography is unique in that the body determines far more about the
colors, clarity, and rendition of a scene than film cameras do. Film bodies
rely on...FILM...for color, resolution (grain), and white balance (tungsten,
etc.), ISO characteristics, etc. When you change a digital body, you are
effectively changing th eequivalent of ALL of those things, which, for the
film shooter, would mainly only require the consideration of shich film to
use on a given subject.
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