Ironic New Nikon Announcements
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Thanks to Eric at PhotographyBay.com:
http://www.photographybay.com/2008/01/28/nikon-pma-leaks-d60-af-s-16-85mm-and-more/#more-816
Here’s the short list:
1) D60 Camera (Nikon D40x + dust control, essentially);
2) 16-85mm VR AF-S DX lens (consumer replacement for the 18-70mm “kit lens” that came with the D70, for most);
3) 60mm AF-S Micro Nikkor f/2.8 (A non-starter; I have the original non-AF-S version and speed of focus is of low-priority with macro.
In my humble opinon….
Matrix Metering or multi-sensor evaluative metering coupled with “regionally-variable” ISO will make a difference, but I don’t think it will truely blurr the lines between consumer, pro-sumer, and professional work.
True the image capture will be (and is) more exact to the eye and the sensor, but I still think a significant amount of a photographers work is done in the dark room.
Technology has pretty much made photographic mediocrity accessible for everyone that has the money to buy a good DSLR etc. If your in it for the money you need to focus on business practices developeing a visual style and taking care of your clients. Take your upcoming podcast of Tibor Nehmeth, people don’t go to him because he knows how to use a camera they go to him for how he sees. Technical and visual mastery is a
The last couple of years has seen an explosion in the number of ‘photographers’ out there.
There’s also a huge number of people in graphics who are shooting their own stuff and I even came across a make-up artist who’s started shooting.
Unfortunatly for pro’s a lot of these people will work for near nothing and sell photos to our markets for what ever they get because they don’t need to make a living from it.
I don’t want to sound bitter or upset about the situation because there’s nothing I can do about it and it’s just the way things in the digital world are.
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A picture is thousand words that takes less than a second while a thousand words is a picture that takes a month.
Its funny a guy told me once “a man buys a piano he owns a piano. A man buys a camera he’s a photographer”. That pretty much sums it up! There is always somebody ready to do a half ass job for next to nothing. Its been that way for a long time digital gear has just made it worse.
I just want to point out that my gut feeling regarding tilt/shift lenses is coming to pass:
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0807/08070102nikonpcemicro45mm85mm.asp
Nikon just announced two more PC (their term for tilt/shift) lenses in the lineup.
There is always somebody ready to do a half ass job for next to nothing.
True True!
Walk in to a Home Depot on a weekday around 8am…it will boggle your mind that people have actually hired some of these guys as builders to do remodeling projects. Cant even believe they call themselves carpenters/craftsman.
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