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Re: Sleeping with the Enemy—Trying a D700
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Re: Sleeping with the Enemy—Trying a D700
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Re: Sleeping with the Enemy—Trying a D700
14-24 arrived this morning. The beast makes the EF 85 f/1.2L look like a can of cat food. Now for a little testing to make sure I got a good one. It's so strange; Last week, my camera bag looked so different to the way it does today. It went from EF 24-105, EF 35L, EF 135 f/2L, EF 50 f/1.4, Nikon 50 f/1.4G to no 24-105 or… -
Re: Sleeping with the Enemy—Trying a D700
Note I said "needing". You know how it is: you get tired of the schlep and become a renunciate every few years, and want to travel light. Then you get tired of that and buy new lenses. A bit like being an occasional vegetarian. Renting the 14-24 this week. It was love from the first look through the finder. It's also HEAVY… -
Re: Sleeping with the Enemy—Trying a D700
I'm also a recent D700 convert and have no regrets. I love this camera so much, it simply amazes me every time I shoot with it. So far I've rented most of the standard ED lenses (the equivalent of Canon L lenses) and every one of them is breathtakingly awesome, especially the 14-24, which you already know is just… -
Re: Sleeping with the Enemy—Trying a D700
I use them a lot too. Terrific service. I just read Thom Hogan's Desert Island article—good reading, if landscape-centered. I have often thought of carrying a more stripped-down setup, so I like the spirit of the article. Where he and I differ is that I shoot a lot of people, so those obnoxious 24-70 f/2.8s are quite… -
Re: Sleeping with the Enemy—Trying a D700
I just finished a exhibition of 24 8x10's from a 2.0MP camera and I didn't hear one thing about the lack of resolution from anyone at the opening If you get a properly exposed image capture you can blow the images up to huge sizes, if you mess it up even 24MP wont save you Oh and I just took my D700 into the studio, it is… -
Re: Sleeping with the Enemy—Trying a D700
Yes, a fantastic lens considering the price compared to the Canon 35 L. And if you buy it used, you should retain most of it's value if/when a Nikon 35 1.4 AFS comes out for FX... (Seeing as Nikon recently engineered a 1.8 DX...) Or if you want wider, consider the Sigma 28, 24, or 20mm f/1.8's... Not as sharp as a Nikon,… -
Re: Sleeping with the Enemy—Trying a D700
Well, ladies and gentlemen... I'm selling the 5DmkII. The time has come to commit to a camera. The mkII is a brilliant, brilliant camera, just, as it turns out, not the camera for what I need most. If I spent more of my time in the out of doors, on tripods, I would likely keep it, but my indoor seat-of-my-pants… -
Re: Sleeping with the Enemy—Trying a D700
Thnx Pindy, for the comments. I'm always interested in the differences of equipment and appreciate your work here. it's funny, but I probably wouldn't have bought the MKIII if it was a FF. I need the reach for wildlife, which is shorter than my 40D, but it gives me a little wider 24-105L, so I am happy for landscapes. I…
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