Ok, I know that you guys have heard this story before but here is
my situation. My primary business has been weddings and I started
using canon D30 this year. I am now using my Mamiya 645 AF for
formals only and using the D30 and EOS 3 film for the remainder on
the work. While I would like a digital back the situation is that
the 645 AF does not make me any money. I would like to replace the
645 for a high res camera which will work for formals. The Canon d1
was my hope and dream, but I do not feel that it can replace the
645 quality. So the next choice... DCS 760 or D1X.
Reading thru Phil's review I feel that D1X is favored, but the
resolution seem to be the best on the 760.
How did you (760 users) get thru these issues ?
No ICC Adobe profile sRGB ?
Noise at ISO 400 + on the 760 vs. the D1X ?
Any issues with Blue Channel Noise ?
No White Balance setting ?
Thanks for your support
Bill
I see that this post is three days old as I write this, and there
has been only one response, from someone who had only brief
dealings with the camera.
Since I also am considering the 760 against the D1x, I've "stopped
in" here at the Kodak forum several times, and rarely see any posts
concerning the 760. Considering the number of posts about problems
with the D1x, and the lack of posts on the 760, you'd almost have
to think of the 760 as a perfect camera, especially as compared to
the D1x!
I'm waiting a bit longer to get my hands on a real live 760 before
I make the decision in the next 3 or 4 weeks, but here's why I'm
leaning toward the D1x:
If you have a problem that requires a return for service, it first
goes to Kodak. If they determine that the problem is with the body
instead of the digital part of the camera, it then gets sent to
Nikon. So you could probably add at least one week, probably two to
down time over "one stop shopping" at Nikon for repairs on the D1x.
While the one other poster, Neal, notes that the software had sRGB
and Adobe 1998, the camera itself only has Kodak's Pro Photo RGB
and a "near" sRGB profile, unless the have recently changed the
firmware to add the Adobe profiles.
The 760 has a very limited ISO range compared to the D1x.
A recent experience with Kodak over this camera has left me
wondering just how mixed up things are internally at Kodak right
now: I was offered a demo, via a promo card mailing. I called for a
follow up, and no one knew anything about it. When they finally
found the department offering the demo, it seems thay hadn't yet
figured out just how this would be accomplished. When that was
decided after about three weeks, I was told I would be getting a
call shortly to set it up. After another two weeks, I still hadn't
heard from the rep who was to contact me, and I again called Kodak.
The next day, (last Friday), I received calls from TWO reps, one
who said he'd like to give me a demo, but he didn't have a
camera,while the other said everything I had been told in the past
five weeks was in error, and that the program was never designed to
have a demo from Kodak... it was just to garner leads for dealers.
(So why does a rep 3000 miles from Rochester haave this insite,
when the department that initiated the mailing program in Rochester
say that a rep would demo the product for me?)
Seems like a lot of confusion at Kodak right now, just in trying to
market the camera, and this whole fiasco has made me question
whether or not a Kodak camera is the right choice at all. These
were all good folks trying to be helpful, but with such a lack of
communication and knowledge about their own marketing plan does not
speak well for Kodak. It's sad to see this happening to the "Great
Yellow Father".
Anyway, the 760 is not down and out for me yet, but I'm still
leaning toward the D1x right now. The one rep who "didn't have a
camera" was going to try and find one, so we'll see...
Ron
