Nikon Announces Another Must Have Camera, The D700!!
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From: Alfred Molon on 2 Jul 2008 05:22 In article <xLvak.2867$bX6.590(a)news1.pds.libertysurf.fr>, says... > As, I'd remind you, do American software companies' pricing policies for > sales to those outside the US - oh, and don't confuse stupidity with lack of > choice... You missed my irony... -- Alfred Molon ------------------------------ Olympus 50X0, 8080, E3X0, E4X0, E5X0 and E3 forum at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MyOlympus/ http://myolympus.org/ photo sharing site
From: RichA on 2 Jul 2008 12:52 On Jul 1, 2:20 pm, Alfred Molon <alfred_mo...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > In article <_riak.636$zv7....(a)flpi143.ffdc.sbc.com>, Paul Furman says... > > > What does a D3 sell for in Euros? > > 2800 Euros = 4400 U.S. dollars > > That is because Europeans are stupid and will happily pay 50% more for > cameras than Americans. All camera manufacturers know that. Takes a special kind of people to let their governments decide how to spend 60% of their income for them.
From: ASAAR on 2 Jul 2008 15:18 On Wed, 2 Jul 2008 15:11:44 +1000, Mr.T wrote: >> It's probably as bad as you were thinking. The D700's Large, >> Medium and Small resolutions in FX mode are 12, 6.75 and 3mp. The >> corresponding resolutions in DX mode are 5.1, 2.9 and 1.3mp. So >> only about 4mp are lost when switching from FX to DX in Medium >> resolution mode. For Large resolution, the loss is almost 7mp. > > > Why I wonder. You lose a lot less than that by simply cropping later in > Photoshop. That would be my preferred option in any case. Two reasons come to mind. First, more camera-cropped images can fit on the card, and second, it allows Nikon to advertise a 'feature'. Namely, that you can still use your old, DX lenses with the FX body. Which isn't to say that (as you said) a little cropping on the computer wouldn't also allow the DX lenses to be used.
From: Chris Malcolm on 2 Jul 2008 19:52 In rec.photo.digital.slr-systems RichA <rander3127(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Jul 1, 2:20 pm, Alfred Molon <alfred_mo...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >> In article <_riak.636$zv7....(a)flpi143.ffdc.sbc.com>, Paul Furman says... >> >> > What does a D3 sell for in Euros? >> > 2800 Euros = 4400 U.S. dollars >> >> That is because Europeans are stupid and will happily pay 50% more for >> cameras than Americans. All camera manufacturers know that. > Takes a special kind of people to let their governments decide how to > spend 60% of their income for them. Since most people live in the country they were born in I doubt it very much. But I would agree that sneering at the weird ways of foreigners is a matter of choice. -- Chris Malcolm cam(a)infirmatics.ed.ac.uk DoD #205 IPAB, Informatics, JCMB, King's Buildings, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK [http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/homes/cam/]
From: Roger Moss on 3 Jul 2008 03:45
"RichA" <rander3127(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:246310d7-e72a-4db2-aa4f-1eed4fad6767(a)b1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com... > On Jul 1, 2:20 pm, Alfred Molon <alfred_mo...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >> In article <_riak.636$zv7....(a)flpi143.ffdc.sbc.com>, Paul Furman says... >> >> > What does a D3 sell for in Euros? >> > 2800 Euros = 4400 U.S. dollars >> >> That is because Europeans are stupid and will happily pay 50% more for >> cameras than Americans. All camera manufacturers know that. > > Takes a special kind of people to let their governments decide how to > spend 60% of their income for them. > Not a figure I recognise, but then I've only lived and worked here for six years... One thing I do know, however, is that if and when you get sick, old or both in France, you'll be grateful to find out where much of your taxes went. Care and compassion can't be discounted - which is one reason we don't tend to vote for someone who simply promises to cut taxes. [Now let's get back to cameras.] RM |