Doug Frost

I ordered my D800E from Amazon USA on March 25. I think mine will ship around the time Nikon announces the D900E. :D -- The gear is merely the means to an end, not the end itself.

...There is nothing wrong with image quality. And that is what counts. Apart from that OP should not even have brought this up in this forum, it is a case between him and his...

It's only a legitimate complaint if the oval shape of the aperture is causing image quality problems. And I have no idea if it is, but his silence on the matter suggests that it isn't. If that's...

Yes, you are a photographer. For that matter, anyone who takes photographs is also a photographer. I think the important question is: what kind of photographer do you want to be? Could you be a...

You must be a Best Buy employee. They absolutely do pressure the customer to buy stuff they don't need. Commission has nothing to do with it. The sales people are told by the management to make...

LOL you're very funny. The quality of the pictures is the only thing that matters. If you're more concerned about the appearance of the lens than the quality of the pictures it takes then maybe you...

I use the Domke F-803. It fits my NEX-7 with 50mm lens attached, along with my Zeiss 24mm and a Nikon 135mm, plus batteries, SDHC card case and other accessories. It also has a pocket in the...

I would understand if the shots you were getting from the lens were of unacceptable quality, but instead you're complaining about the aperture shape. Have you in fact shot with these lenses? If so,...

Yup. I'm getting it with mine as well in contrasty scenes. -- The gear is merely the means to an end, not the end itself.

You sound like a Best Buy employee. That place gives me the creeps. Salespeople always trying to sell you overpriced cables and accessories you don't need or worthless service plans. No...

Always better to stick with primes, if you can. -- The gear is merely the means to an end, not the end itself.

-- The gear is merely the means to an end, not the end itself.

I ordered one from Amazon USA on March 24. I doubt I'll get it before September. Has anyone received theirs? -- The gear is merely the means to an end, not the end itself.

The real answer is: If you're going to be making prints size A3 or larger, go with the D800E. All the real world test reports for the D800E show that the risk of encountering moire is minimal,...

Spoken like someone who doesn't know this camera at all and isn't qualified to judge it.

Leica is all about the glass. Nobody makes better lenses. Canon makes some very good lenses, but in terms of bokeh, microcontrast and overall rendering of the scene, Leica runs circles around both...

Leica is all about the glass. Nobody makes better lenses. Canon makes some very good lenses, but in terms of bokeh, microcontrast and overall rendering of the scene, Leica runs circles around both...

@Lea5 - presumably you spent a little more than a dollar for your D4, the sensor in which was manufactured by Sony.

@ljmac - Ansel Adams shot in B&W by choice, not because color wasn't available to him. He always shot in color occasionally, and had been doing so since the 1930s, but chose B&W as his preferred...

@ljmac - Ansel Adams shot in B&W by choice, not because color wasn't available to him. He always shot in color occasionally, and had been doing so since the 1930s, but chose B&W as his preferred...