Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/18
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Thomas Kachadurian <kach@freeway.net> wrote:
>[ Nikon Coolpix 950 ]
>At up to a 6x8 print you'd have trouble telling it from the best of 35mm
>cameras. As a scan in the computer it rivals ANY image from a Leica scanned
>with the very best scanner.
No offense to Thomas, but I think he got a little carried away.
1. Betcha can't shoot a 180-degree diagonal fisheye image with it
to match the 16mm R fisheye-elmarit. Now for extra points, shoot
super-wide into the sun without flaring...
2. How about macro - can it beat the 100mm R Apo?
;^)
For super-wide or close-up work, the 950 doesn't come close.
So who cares about super-wide? All the VR photographers! Also,
as an aside, there are problems at the moment with downloading
images from the 950 onto a mac (you currently have to go via
a PC-CARD reader). Don't have no such problems scanning in 35mm!
Digital cameras *are* getting better. But IMO they are still
a long way off for real world commercial work.
Cheers,
Andrew N.
www.nemeng.com