but you have to wonder about
every picture and the banding problem.
Said by someone who doesn't own one. As usual.
Well I own one and I
never worry about banding and even if I did,
I certainly wouldn't worry with
every shot. It's just not that
big a problem in real life. In real life I haven't once gotten a
picture that had banding so bad I couldn't use it unless it had
other things so bad I couldn't use it anyway.
So the Big D is not an alternative, it is handicapped and the D60
is not.
The D60 is handicapped by it's AF. It's better than the D30's but
not much better. I got to handle the D60 at the last COBA meeting
and on the very first shot, I pressed the button and got the same
darn hunting behavior that drives me crazy with the D30. The next
shot went better and even with the hunting it was faster about it.
But it still wouldn't meet my needs. It's still not an AF system
along the lines of an EOS3.
For what each is designed to do, the D60 does it and the 1D
does not.
What nonesense. The 1D was designed for the pj and sports shooter
and the pj and sport shooter
love them. I love mine. It does
exactly what I want it to do -- which is operate like a film camera
while taking action shots in low light.
(Likewise both the D30 and D60 do what they were designed to do as
far as I can tell.)
Wow, what am I supposed to do?
Think for yourself.
What do the folks who do the sort of
photography
you do think about it? I mean the ones who actually
own and use the camera. Listen to them, try it out yourself , look
at the samples on this forum and elsewhere and form your own
judgement. Don't worry about what "everyone else" says. There will
always be someone who thinks some camera stinks even the most
absolutely perfect one. Most of the people whining about the 1D
never even tried one. So why listen to them when trying to figure
out how the camera will perform in real life?
To me, it looks like the camera is poised to graciously go into the
background as Canon totally replaces it eventually.
You mean like they replaced the D30?
In the digital world, all
camera bodies are a consumable comodity. They are just like
computers this way. They get replaced every 2 years or so so you
get 2x as much "stuff" for the same or a lower price.
The new one
will not be handicapped but give clean pictures just like it is
supposed to at each given ISO.
Yeah, well, I've noticed on this forum that cameras that aren't out
yet are perfect and cameras that are out are handcapped/defective.
Even the D60 that everyone was raving about a month ago is now
being trashed for not being perfect. So until it's out, I'll
reserve judgement about this mythical perfect camera if you don't
mind.
Marie
