Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/06/30

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Subject: [Leica] Re:OT: New Nikon D700 full frame
From: leicachris at worldnet.att.net (Chris Williams)
Date: Mon Jun 30 22:24:33 2008
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Seriously, how many photographers will need 24mp's? Commercial yes, 
news/event/wedding no.

Will be fun to see the file sizes. My NEF's are already 16mb's in some 
cases.

Zeiss is coming out with the ZF Nikon mount 18/3.5

I thought good lens systems were ALWAYS important.

Chris









----- Original Message ----- 
From: "mehrdad"
Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: New Nikon D700 full frame


> there are also ziess lenses manual focus for nikon too. but the
> quality of the primes need much improvements for nikon
>
> when they roll out the next camera based on the sony 24 meg, the
> playing field is level!! even pentax and sony will have a 20 meg
> camera. then we will be back to basics and a good lens systems will be
> important again
>
> meanwhile leica is stock in deciding about the upgrade of the M8 (as
> of right now it seems up in the air according to one of the dealers)
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 10:07 PM, Chris Williams
> <leicachris@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>> Nikon rumors are new primes are coming. Let's hope it's true.
>>
>> Nikon's 85/1.4 is just fine. Faster AF would help though.
>>
>> A new 50/1.2 would be nice. At least Nikon's old manual 50/1.2 can still
>> work on a digital body though. Try that Cannot,er Canon.
>>
>> Chris


In reply to: Message from leicachris at worldnet.att.net (Chris Williams) ([Leica] OT: New Nikon D700 full frame)
Message from red735i at earthlink.net (Frank Filippone) ([Leica] OT: New Nikon D700 full frame)
Message from leicachris at worldnet.att.net (Chris Williams) ([Leica] OT: New Nikon D700 full frame)
Message from msadat at gmail.com (mehrdad) ([Leica] OT: New Nikon D700 full frame)
Message from leicachris at worldnet.att.net (Chris Williams) ([Leica] OT: New Nikon D700 full frame)
Message from msadat at gmail.com (mehrdad) ([Leica] OT: New Nikon D700 full frame)