Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/11/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Adam, It allows the use of the digital only lenses from the 1.5X crop cameras. The camera actually senses these lenses and automatically goes into crop mode. It is Nikon's way of not obsoleting expensive or even inexpensive lenses. It is kind of like Nikon's not obsoleting their older manual focus lenses on their current higher end cameras. It has certainly kept me as a Nikon user. Len On Nov 28, 2008, at 10:40 PM, Adam Bridge wrote: > I don't understand why the "crop mode" is important or even > desirable. It's not like you get to suddenly have bigger pixel buckets > or anything. > > Could someone explain this? > > Adam > > On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 7:27 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj > <jayanand@gmail.com> wrote: >> I believe it is not the Sony chip. Sure they can charge over >> $5000, if it is >> good enough. Sony seems to have limitations above ISO400 according to >> reviews...I bet Nikon delivers clean files at ISO 1600. It also >> has a crop >> mode at 10mp. >> Cheers >> Jayanand >> >> >> On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 6:42 AM, mehrdad <msadat@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> the d3x is out, 24 meg like the sony iso to 1600, good studio >>> camera and >>> daylight use, unlike sony, nikon has limited the iso to 1600. the >>> question >>> is can they ask 5k for it when sony is asking 3k? >>> >>> On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Chris Williams < >>> leicachris@worldnet.att.net >>>> wrote: >>> >>>> D3 prices today - $4199 >>>> >>>> D700 - $2400 >>>> >>>> Something's coming I think even before the BIG announcement. >>>> >>>> Chris >>>> NOLA >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more >>>> information >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> ------------------------------------- >>> regards, mehrdad >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information