[OFB Cafe] Photographers?

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said Timothy Butler:
| > d-200s. got 'em because they would use my existing nikkor lenses.
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| 	Nice. What's the difference between the D200s and the D200?

nothing. i have two of 'em. i use my existing nikkors -- 105 f1.8, 85 f2, 
500 mirror reflex nikkor (which is a 750 f8 using the tiny sensor!) -- 
fairly rarely. i typically use the 12-24 and the 18-200. digital slrs have 
a far greater risk from dust than film ones do. first, any speck of dust 
is half again as big; second, film had a kind of self-cleaning aspect. if 
there were a speck of dust that landed on the focal plane, it would move 
along when the film was advanced. with digital, it sits there, picture 
after picture. so the 12-24 pretty much always sits on one body and, all 
else equal, the 18-200 on the other. the fewer times i have the lens off, 
the less likelihood of contamination getting in.

| 	Quite true too. Digital does take some of the challenge away. Of
| course, it provides challenge in that one can try many things and seek
| difficult subjects that might have previously been avoided due to cost.

i still have a hard time thinking of digital photography as photography, 
and an even harder time thinking of it as art. there was such a zen to 
chemical photography.
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dep

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