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[Lyman Green <lymang AT gmail.com>]

To give everyone some background:

I am looking for something that will be a suitable upgrade from my
Olympus D500L (circa 1998 it was a really nice camera, and it's still
very functional, if limited).

My father visited Rome over Thanksgiving (my younger brother was
ordained as a Catholic priest) and took some pictures with his Sony
DSC-707.  OK, some pictures doesn't begin to describe it.  He took
something like 1250 pictures.  I saw most of them while visting over
the holidays.  While many were just.. pictures, there were a good
number of them that were just absolutely stunning - mostly
architecture, nature, and texture shots.  It definitely re-ignited an
interest I've always had in photography (I took a b&w developing class
in high school at a local community college) and so the circumstances
are right at this time for me to get a new camera.  Or at least to
thoroughly research the current crop.  I spent (back in '98) about 800
on the Olympus D500L, and it looks like for not a lot more I can get a
boatload more functionality and power and capability.

Do I need more than 3.2MP? Well, I don't know.  But I have seen poster
prints made out of higher MP cameras and I see some appeal to that. 
This area is just amazing for things like nature shots - I have some
(what I would call acceptable) pictures of various wildlife in this
area, but one issue I've had with the D500L is low light shooting is
nearly impossible (even with a flash the autofocus becomes an issue). 
It will be nice to get something more capable in almost every
technical area, and then the only limit will be can I compose a
picture worth a damn? :-)

Lyman

On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 15:44:12 -0500, Edward Wesolowski
<edwes AT idisplay.com> wrote:
> fyi: The photo (hard copy, Wednesday, November 10, 2004, &  web image) with
> the N&O article
> http://www.newsobserver.com/business/story/1815451p-8122291c.html
> http://www.newsobserver.com/images/xtq_photos/2004-1/xtq_20041110-images/reg-712757-427912.jpg
> was made w/an Olympus C740, 3.2 mega pixel digital camera
> so was
> http://www.avvmmp.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=27835
> http://images.digitalmedianet.com/2004/Week_35/3zdx1giy/story/truck175.jpg
> I offer these as examples of 3.2 megapixels, (Is greater resolution
> needed?) altho I am lusting after the Nikon.
> Ed Wesolowski
> 
> At 12:39 PM 2/8/2005 -0500, you wrote:
> >On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Lyman Green wrote:
> >>Anyone on the list have a Canon Digital Rebel or a Nikon D70?  Looking
> >>for info on these digital SLR's from a real person (as opposed to a
> >>faceless internet reviewer).
> >
> >The Canon does well for a consumer most of the Pros I know are using the
> >D70. Especially since ALL the Nikon lenses work. Canon has changed their
> >mount a couple of times. I know of at least 3 pros in the area that are
> >using the D70 as their primary camera. I know of no pros using the Canon.
> >The prices on the D70 will most likely come down a little more in the next
> >couple of months as Nikon is getting ready to release the repalcement for
> >the D100.
> >
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