Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/05/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 5/4/07 12:42 PM, "Jeff S. Matsler" <jeffmatsler@amaonline.com> typed: > Hey Mark, > > Has the S5 finally been released. I notice that review still has a release > date of "early 2007" and some of the details remain listed as "unknown". > > I had an S2 - my first DSLR. An awesome camera with the one flaw of being > way to slow for sports photography - which is what I was using it for. > :-( Traded it in for a D1H and then a D2H. Those had awesome speed, but > the pictures were crisper from the Fuji. > > I've been waiting for the S5 specs to come out - and / or the camera itself > hit the market. It's the one camera that might convince me to buy another > Nikon DSLR. > > Jeff M > The Nikon D200 is the best camera I've ever shot with. I think of it as a Leica camera which shoots Nikon glass and for some inexplicable reason says Nikon on it. Its solid feel and handling also cant be beat. Magnesium fights for you! 12 ways. Based on the number of keepers I've gotten with it in the past year since I've had it. Ikons with my Nikon. It is a superb picture making machine second to none in terms of APS-2 format. So much so that I'm having a hard time forking over the 5 grand to get my much loved and exalted and priced Leica glass I'm accumulated over a decade with most my earnings going again. I'm almost more prone to just get some ZF glass and call it a day. Say the Makro-Planar T* 2/50 ZF. But I may to the M8 workshop on the 10th in Manhattan and see what that does. I'm also finding film to be more viable. I've got film camera bodies going again. Or shoot with my Leica Zeiss D200. http://www.dphotonews.com/shownews.php?idVesti=85 Love that deeply recessed glass. A clean cool quarter inch away. For extra flavor. A 75mm f2 I can live with that. I can LOCTITE that puppy right on the camera. Call it my Zeiss Nikon. The question is? Red or green? Green may lock it but Red may make it GO BACK IN TIME! http://www.action-electronics.com/loctite.htm Mark Rabiner 8A/109s New York, NY markrabiner.com