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[peripheralfocus]

And the anecdotes cut both ways. For years, John Iacono, one of
Sports Illustrated's top photographers -- and, I should say, a good
friend of Nikon -- would regale people with the tale of the time he
was standing next to a Canon EOS shooter on the rainy sideline of a
pro sports event (I forget which one now) and the guy's camera
started billowing smoke. Water had leaked into it, it shorted out
and caught fire.

Haven't these people ever heard of plastic bags! How hard is it to
keep a supermarket plastic bag in one's pocket.

Actually, many of them do use plastic bags, though usually they're the large garbage can bags -- remember, they've gotta' be able to fit a 600/4.0 or a 400/2.8 lens in there.

But their main job is to get publishable pictures, not to keep their cameras dry. In a heavy rain, on the sideline of a 3-hour football game, amidst the jostling, running, competitive, madding crowd of 50-100 (or 400 at a Super Bowl) other photographers, it's not all that easy to keep water off your camera no matter how many plastic bags you brought.

 

[whereswade]

Interesting that you should call a guy nuts because he comes from a libertarian bent. He may be a bit too libertarian for my personal taste, but to call him nuts/say that he has some crazy ideas (in regards to gun ownership, gay rights and drug legalization) and then dismiss his postings on that basis is, at best, shallow. An interesting thing just happened here in MN with the passage of the Conceal and Carry law, and I look forward disproving the fear-mongering from those who support gun-control.

I just think it is sad that I will be maligned in much the same way, for MY extreme views.

 

[Clark Hampton]

To have thousands and thousands of lenses that cover the 35mm size and the fact that bigger is better, I can't think Nion would not eventually go full frame.

sure, current 1.5 factor sensors are really amazing. But they are bigger than point & shoot sensors because they are bigger, less noisy because of the size they are. using up all of the 35mm size (and getting the maximum use of a large base of existing lenses) makes good technical sense.

Sure, the current sensor can get you to 18x20 and larger and look great but to get to film quality, your'e going to have to move to a larger sensor or wait a very long time.

Right now, the 14mp sensor in the Kodak 14n beats 400 speed film and gives 100 speed a run for it's money.

I shoot the D100 because it's everything I need for the price. ut in the future, if larger sensors are a few steps ahead of the smaller ones and the prices come down (they will) I will go that way for the same reason I buy film. I want the highest resolution possible.

These are technical issues in photography and certainy have nothing to do with wining a proze or not. Just tools, yes, but when looked at from the tech side....it makes sense.