Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/08/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Len, Because a lot of my lenses are either DX or the old AIS/AF lenses. I hear that the D700 demands a lot more from the lenses than the cropped bodies...will have to try and figure it out! Experimentation, here I come! Cheers Jayanand On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 7:53 PM, Leonard Taupier <len-1@comcast.net> wrote: > Jayanand, > > Unless you have all DX lenses, why upgrade? Even with DX lenses the D700 > automatically senses the smaller circle and automatically crops to 1.5X. I > find it's very difficult to see any degradation. And I'm now really > enjoying > all my old manual focus wide angle lenses. And they look great. > > Of course the new 14-24 and 24-70 zooms are spectacular. I don't have > either :-( but have used them. > > Len > > > > On Aug 11, 2008, at 9:55 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote: > > Mine comes tomorrow - cant wait to get my hands on it. I have to now start >> upgrading all my lenses (Ouch!). >> Cheers >> Jayanand >> >> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 7:12 PM, Didier Ludwig <leica@screengang.com> >> wrote: >> >> I didn't know that the D700 is already available. >>> Unless there's no digital rangefinder in the near >>> future with a comparably good high ISO performance, >>> this is the camera I want to have. >>> Didier >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> 3200 asa f 1.8 in near darkness, boosted a little bit in levels. very >>>> low >>>> >>> grain (and an excellent portrait, if you ask me) >>> >>>> >>>> http://www.kylecassidy.com/lj/2008/avhc5.jpg >>>> >>>> 1:1 detail: >>>> >>>> http://www.kylecassidy.com/lj/2008/3200.jpg >>>> >>>> I think we're approaching an age when "available light" might be >>>> anything. >>>> >>> with noise reduction tools (none of which were run on this image) >>> "acceptable" amounts of grain might be found at nearly any ISO..... >>> >>>> >>>> kc >>>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >