Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/06/21

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Subject: RE: [Leica] OT: Digital wars.
From: "Brian McCarthy" <straightline@btinternet.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 16:17:04 +0100

<sarcasm>
What a useful and sensible suggestion ;-) 
</scarcasm>


Logan Reinwood wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> If I would be you.. I would buy the current Canon D60 (rated 
> better than the 
> Nikon D100!), and sell all nikon lenses and buy canon lenses 
> instead, or use 
> R glass on the D60.
> 
> :-)
> 
> Logan.
> 
> 
> >
> >I'm looking to go SLR digital and have been doing a lot of reading 
> >lately. I have narrowed my search to the Nikon D100 which 
> has a release 
> >date of mid July and the new Fuji S2 Pro which is to be released in 
> >August. These would both fit nicely as I have all the latest Nikkor 
> >glass. Both camera specs look good but from pictures off 
> Japanese web 
> >sites it looks like the Fuji is better in picture quality. I 
> also noted 
> >that the Fuji uses their proprietary super CCD, which is 
> much smaller 
> >in size than the Nikon CCD, and there was a lot of 
> discussion as to the 
> >way Fuji specified their CCDs. Any comments would be 
> appreciated. Sorry 
> >for being so off topic but I have a lot of faith in the 
> minds residing 
> >here.
> >
> >
> >And then there's the Sigma coming in the fall with the new 
> Faveon chip. 
> >Decisions decisions.
> >
> 
> 
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