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p.1 #1 · p.1 #1 · Stupid Ken Rockwell may cost me a customer! | |
So one of my clients, who hired me to do an engagement session (but not wedding), is considering backing out because of my equipment. .
When I signed the contract (when she was pregnant, but decided to hold off until baby was born), I could tell she had no clue about photography, and now after she's given birth - and I assume got to play around with cameras during her maternity leave is convinced that her photos will be miraculously better with a Nikon D7000.
Yea. Exactly. Now, the D7000 is a great camera, but I use 2 D700s. Yea, they're not state of the art in 2014, but they still take amazing pics! There is no way I'm sacrificing my setup for a D7000.
We start talking on the phone about location and time of day, and she starts asking me about my cameras, saying how she would prefer if I used D7000 to shoot her session. To me that came out of left field. What? I shoot with 24-70mm 2.8, 70-200 2.8 VR2 and 85mm 1.4D. I normally bring all 3 to my engagement sessions but spend most of the day with the 85. No way was I going to stick that on a D7000 or any DX body for a shoot.
I tried explaining to her the difference between FX and DX, but she was having none of it. She felt my equipment was an older generation. After the conversation, I came away feeling as if this woman is going to be really difficult if I didn't rent a new body like D800 or D4. Regardless, I think after this session, she may not even hire me in the future, or when she decided to get married. We'll see.
Last night, she sent me this link:
http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/d7000.htm
Saying: "Hi, I'm sure you're comfortable with your camera, but I think you're wrong here. Please see this review."
I know Ken Rockwell is a moron, thus never pay attention to his reviews, but I never took into account how many people read his reviews and take it as gospel. So I read the entire review. Is this guy serious?!!! He makes it seem as if the D7000 destroys pro Nikon bodies! And people in the market for $600 DSLRs are probably eating it up!
Here's some snippet:
One of the biggest stand-out features of the Nikon D7000 is its fantastic autofocus system. Whatever Nikon has done under the hood has made it the best, fastest, most precise and most accurate focus system of any Nikon. This becomes more apparent as you've shot more cameras for longer; it's a subtle thing, but something I very much notice. It feels about the same or better than my professional Nikon D3, and worlds faster in actual use than my Nikon D300.The D7000 was Nikon's most advanced camera at any price in 2010. Today the D610 is the same thing in a bigger package with a larger sensor, and the D7100 is the same thing with a white finder LCD instead of green. If money matters, this D7000 is still your best buy in 2014. Yes, the D800 and D4s are more expensive, but also a lot more clumsy. The Nikon D7000 handles better than any of them, and has more resolution than the $6,500 D4s.
Among the many things I love about the D7000, in addition to how much better and faster it handles than any other Nikon DSLR (and I also own a professional Nikon D3), is that the pictures I make with the D7000 simply look better than what I've ever gotten with any other digital camera. The effects are subtle, but as a prolific photographer, I see that the colors are simply better, especially under difficult light under which my D3 just doesn't look as good.
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