Well, see it's like this. I was given my first camera in 1957 and after that made photography an on and off hobby, when in the 90's I turned it into a much more serious venture and started a business using my camera gear. Between about mid 1980 to date you can imagine that I've managed to own a few different cameras. Around the year 2000 I tried digital, mixing digital with film shots at weddings and went all digital in 2002. Since then and especially more recently, I've come to the conclusion that just about any DSLR made since the Fuji S2 can take beautiful portrait photos and many can take nice landscapes and much is up to the operator and also post processing skills. However, I've also learned in all my collected years, that there are just some cameras that fit you like and glove and you just want to be out shooting them. Others maybe not quite the same feel and others you would just as soon not bother picking up after the first try.
That said, I've certainly had my favorites, to include the Mamiya C220F, believe it or not, a favorite over the 330F. A little RF 35 rangefinder comes to mind, just wanted to be shooting it. My RB 67 for a tripod portrait and landscape camera but still not over and above that 220F ( I just loved to have that 220F along , in the car , in my hands in a camera bag or on a tripod). A little Minolta Autocord TLR comes to mind, loved to shoot scenics with it. And my D70 Nikon. Of all my DSLRs, that D70 still feels the best in the hand, followed next equal share by the Fuji S2 and Nikon D100 ( loved the D100 for wedding receptions and scenics incidentally, it was my number one choice for wedding receptions coupled to the Quantum Qflash, hell I'd shoot a reception with that rig tomorrow !). The D7000 just doesn't have that same feel and non of these have the FX sensor that will allow me to keep my studio door shut with a 100mm. lens on it ( I do portraits with a combo of lenses, one of which that is important to me is the 70-200VR1) .
I like 16MP, but don't need 16 MP, much less the 36MP of the new D800. I shoot portrait photos of families, and High Schoolers. You don't need every wart popping off the skin in a 16x20 canvas print and school shots are 4x6, 4x5 and maybe 8x10 if you sell that package. 16x20 or 16x24 is about my largest print size. The very very most popular print size for RC paper is still 5x7. But you will never never capture the same feel with DX that you can with FX in a given limited space. Never, you can make great photos, you can do stupendous work, your clients can love the work and do love the work but if that element ( of 100mm is) is missing for me and the body isn't quite a fit for me anyway, then it's time to at least allow myself to look around. No ?
It boils down to an aesthetic appeal in the images that I want or would like and a camera feel in the hand that I may enjoy more. Which reminds me of the Pentax 645 I forgot to mention above !!!!!!
Kindest regards,
David G.
It's also a wowowowow price difference. It's double the price. Your not getting double the camera.
