[rollei_list] Re: FW: Re: Digital Advice
- From: "Jeff Kelley" <jlkphoto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 09:49:23 -0700
Mark, The New York Times "a great metropolitan newspaper?" Ha! Nice work!
Have you put a Nikon D3 through the motions & if so, what's your opinion?
Jeff
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>
> Nikons lower priced full frame is of course in the wings.
>
> I'm a professional photographer and I have not switched from Nikon to
> Canon.
> I use lenses on my D200 and D40x which I bought in the 70's and 80s as well
> as 90's.
> I just did a feature for a great metropolitan newspaper here in New York
> using a 14mm 2.8 and a 28 1.4 only.
> Come to think of it here it is:
> http://tinyurl.com/63rko8
>
> When I got into professional photography in the mid 70's I was intrigued by
> the new Olympus OM1 system.
> I was told that if I did not use Nikons I'd not be considered legitimate in
> the business. So that was the main reason I got an F2 the year it came out
> as my first SLR. (and was told by everybody it was junk just get an F. I
> didn't listen.)
>
> That's the way it's always been in photography.
> Photographers don't buy the best camera.
> They buy the ones they think will make them perceived as legit.
> Then it was Nikon.
> Now its Canon.
>
> I knew a guy shot Canon F1's in the late 70's I thought he was really cool
> and did great work. Also a guy who had to switch from Oly's to Nikons
> pressure from his boss.
>
> It of course doesn't make any difference much which camera you use most
> people just buy and sell cameras and never make pictures.
>
> Buy a Pentax Spotmatic.
> Take pictures with it.
> Make prints.
> Show them to people.
>
>
> ....................
> Mark William Rabiner
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