(ii) I'm not moving away from Canon, no matter what Nikon brings out. I'd be deluding myself to think that the 1DX, 1DIV, and 5DII aren't good enough for me. Not to mention the glass. Oh, the glass...
I'm extremely tempted, £3000 for a mk III is just a piss take.
Deliberately leaving off things like micro-adjust, pc sync and af-on buttons to differentiate it from the D800 smacks of Canon's ridiculous deliberate crippling policies of 3 or 4 years ago though, stupid and pointless move by Nikon IMHO
RobertLynn wrote:
Imagine that, a company keeps full feature sets in their top line equipment...
There's always one dick who thinks being smarmy is a clever, relevant, articulate response isn't there?
Strangely it's nearly always you.
If you're prepared to explain why putting $0.00000002 worth of plastic and electronics into a camera is such a massive hassle for a company, I'm happy to debate the relative merits.
If you just want to wave your willy around about how clever you are, I've lost 3 relatives this week and I don't have the time for another confrontation with you where I try to get you to talk and debate instead of posturing around trying to make other people look small.
Wow! Not bad at all, Nikon! Price tag is now $2100. Including wireless capabilities, Android app and iOS app to control camera features, and good camera features with FF sensor. Extremely tempting for new starters in FF! Let's see what Canon will have in comparison with it.....
retrofocus wrote:
Including wireless capabilities, Android app and iOS app to control camera features
Does the app do that as well? I thought it was just for "tethered" shooting......which on it's own would be amazing for photobooths and things at weddings, certainly beats the Rob Galbraith eye-fi card workaround!!
Having camera controls as well? That's an excellent new feature!!
Chris Beaumont wrote:
Deliberately leaving off things like micro-adjust, pc sync and af-on buttons to differentiate it from the D800 smacks of Canon's ridiculous deliberate crippling policies of 3 or 4 years ago though, stupid and pointless move by Nikon IMHO
Regarding the MA, I felt exactly the same.
But as snooked123 pointed out earlier in another thread:
The camera does seem to have AF fine tuning available:
As an amateur not making any money from photos, I don't NEED a new camera. I was kind of interested at the $1500 price point that was causing so much heavy breathing. Not immediately, but many when things settled down and you could actually buy one. Right now I will, um, focus on other things.
It's a pretty good camera for the price. And it looks to me that Nikon doesn't take away too many features from the D800. (If it's up to Canon, no way D600 would have had the same weather sealing as D800.)
Chris Beaumont wrote:
There's always one dick who thinks being smarmy is a clever, relevant, articulate response isn't there?
Strangely it's nearly always you.
If you're prepared to explain why putting $0.00000002 worth of plastic and electronics into a camera is such a massive hassle for a company, I'm happy to debate the relative merits.
If you just want to wave your willy around about how clever you are, I've lost 3 relatives this week and I don't have the time for another confrontation with you where I try to get you to talk and debate instead of posturing around trying to make other people look small....Show more →
Firstly, you're acting like a jerk. You're trying to call me a dick, but are doing the same thing and hiding behind the death of friends/family as the reason for your strife, when in fact, you haven't a clue what's going on in almost any of our lives... Im sorry for your loss, but pal, acting like a jerk and then saying well people died and I don't have time for this...that's weak and does the dead a disservice.
With that out of the way, seriously, you're complaining about crippling of camera bodies and say that it only costs 2 cents...in reality you have no idea how much it costs. But beyond that, does that mean they should
Because it is 2 cents? Do we draw the line at 5 cents? 10?
What point is buying a higher product then, if the base product is going to as good as the best? Seriously? If instead of being coy, posturing yourself, and calling me names, YOU can tell me why?
How much does it cost for full weather sealing? Why isn't every rebel weather sealed?
Where do you draw the line? At what point is a company allowed to differentiate product lines? I'm not sticking up for canon. You know it costs like 20 cents to add a 4x6 print to an order but photographers charge 5 or even 10 dollars for it....should they just give it away for free? I've worked management level in retail and seen the costs of some clothing, I have seen polo shirts sell for $40 and they cost the store 6 cents... No bull, no posturing no being a jerk, no willy waving, 6 cents. Should we have given it away because they bought something else?
Where do you draw the line? And at what point does adding more to the lesser model take away from the higher model?
Great offer imo. Great size and weight. I would like to see the IQ performance at ISO 6.400, 12 & 51k compared to 5D III. If they still use an EXMOR sensor the noise should be one stop less, thann D800s. I will test one, I guess.
As far as I see from specs, the only feature I am still missing is the rear wheel.
Chris Beaumont wrote:
Where? Cheapest I've seen is 2700 at WEX. Do you mean grey import from HK?
If so, what's the repair/warranty situation/implications?
Not actually from HK, probably an import but already in the UK, the prices are tumbling now. I was offered one for £2k for cash on collection last week
I have no idea about the warranty, if it didn't work I'd just send it back.
Not a direct response to anyone, but I've always amazed at people or articles that try to make the cost of manufacturing an equipment look really cheap by only considering the pure material costs. They probably forgot that the manufacturer has to have someone there to operate the machines. Oh, yes, there are also some machines there in the production. Then, the designs, the researches...a bunch of prototypes that have been tossed away and never seen the production line. And countless of many costs to run a company.
Back to the topic, I'd love a 6D with all those specs from CanonRumors and flipped screen plus built-in flash. That will be a nice backup body to my 5D3. But it'll be hard to get rid of my 7D too.
