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So, if you wanted a second system
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A second digital system ? In fact I don't know. I'm not sure I could have need more things relatively of what the E3 offers. I would prefer a kind of Digital Rolleiflex 6008.... something different... but yes for me portabilty is became a must. I've used to carry my Pentax 6x7 or my Hasselbald system, I don't remember how I could do this when I compare the Oly system. Hey Guys, we are living in a luxuous time where the libido is became preeminent over the art of photography... we always want something else, hope to be and to do better, but when I see what is abble to produce my 11-22 + E3 compared to my SWC Hasselbald I definitively can rest and breathe... and taste my "Holly Graal" as a nice french Bordeaux wine !
Anyway many Thanks Louis, I often appreciate your opinion..... and obviously your art...
Anyway many Thanks Louis, I often appreciate your opinion..... and obviously your art...
Canon still makes as much, dealers make far less than before, but do we know what the margins were and are, enough to say there is no dealer profit left? And if you thing Nikon's D3x pricing is absurd, are you now saying that Canon's current 1Ds3 pricing is equally absurd? If so, I find it hard to agree that the two dominant SLR makers are both botching the pricing of their flagship models!
We also do not know the price Nikon will be charging to dealers: there might be an intention to give dealers a nice big margin initially (to encourage them to push the D3x over the 1DsMkIII etc.) before the price drop I expect. Or Nikon might plan to adjust dealer prices down in time, unlike Canon. Frankly we know far too little to make such definitive criticisms of Nikon's strategy.
Hardly: the AF and AE are the same or similar which is a nice decision from Nikon, but the D3 has a higher speed mirror and shutter mechanism for its 9fps/11fps, better (100%) VF, integrated vertical grip, more robust build quality and sealing ...
Plus the inevitable multiplier effect of higher costs: unit sales wil be lower even at equal markup, so markup needs to be higher to justify R&D costs. Higher level models typically have higher percentage markups, AFAIK.
True only if you believe, strangely, that market price should equal production cost plus a fixed (percentage?) markup. But in reality, two factors dictate a higher price for the D3x, at least initially. Firstly, the pent-up demand for higher resolution in Nikon mount, with any potential customers "captive" to Nikon lenses or at least preferring them to the far more limited Minolta-Sony offerings. Secondly, the inherently smaller market compared to the sports/PJ market of the D3. The "high res." 1Ds models have always sold at only about half the rate of the "high speed" 1D models, and please do not cynically attribute this to persistently stupid pricing decisions by Canon.
The D3 by contrast likely had to be priced to draw users away from the Canon system, so might be selling at relatively low margins for such a high end item, in order to get a bigger share of fast, high end lens sales, where Canon had been eating Nikon's lunch for years.
Zoltan2
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Add to this the 500mm f/8 mirror lens, which is the only mirror lens in the world to have AF and the only f/8 lens to have AF as well: http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/lenses/sony500.shtml
At less than 700 grams it is not exactly a heavyweight either.
Especially if you consider that it is a super telephoto lens.
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