[OFB Cafe] Photographers?

[Rick Bowers]

At Thursday 7/17/2008 08:43, you wrote:
>said Timothy Butler:
>| > d-200s. got 'em because they would use my existing nikkor lenses.
>|
>|       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.

Or --- you simply have been affected by the fumes ;-) (fixer smells sooo nice).

>--
>dep

~Rick

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