Thank you for reply Winsor. Well the 4x5" needs I have is of course Mr
Adams fault...
The x-sync of 1/180 is good enough. I've thought about the D70, I have
a good deal on one with a used NIKKOR AF-S 28-70/2.8 D IF ED, (a huge
lens). But that puts me back at least 2 times the E-300. And that it is
not what I want... And I'm sure I would need a 36-pack sensor house for
that lens too...
I'll be calling my local provider to get one E-300 for me to look at
instead of the C-8080...
/ Johan
2005-02-21 kl. 09.47 skrev Winsor Crosby:
>
> Johan, could I suggest that you check your local library and look at
> Polaroid Land Photography by Ansel Adams. Art can be made with a
> Polaroid camera. Certainly you can make art with a digital camera. So
> go ahead and satisfy your need for one now. Nothing is forever and
> certainly you may want to get that Sinar sometime in the future but
> perhaps it is not time yet.
>
> If you are really considering a choice between a digicam and a dslr,
> don't hesitate. Get the dslr. Nice as the C-8080 is, any dlsr will put
> it in the shade.
>
> E-300, x flash synch is 1/180 sec. Not sure about C-8080.
>
> If high speed flash synch is important to you consider a Nikon D70
> which is one of the few inexpensive DSLRs which have a high speed
> 1/500 second X synch and it can synch wirelessly with a second flash as
> well. The kit lens it comes with is very sharp, with good color
> rendition and has a built in motor which focuses very quietly and
> quickly.
>
> A DSLR is going to give a shallower depth of field than the smaller
> sensor of the c-8080 at the same stop of course. A DSLR is more
> flexible and more like a traditional film camera. Sometimes even if the
> lens of a digicam is fast at wide open you only have F stops up to F8
> to work with. Zoomed you have almost no aperture flexibility at all.
> Even if the lens is fast on a digicam you are running into noise at 100
> ISO and the picture is getting pretty ugly at 200 ISO. A DSLR is
> relatively noise free up to ISO 400 and some are very good beyond that
> as well. Which is not to say you can't make great pictures with a
> digicam. It is just easier and more consistent with a DSLR.
>
>
>
> Winsor
> Long Beach, California, USA
> On Feb 20, 2005, at 11:44 PM, Johan Malmstrom wrote:
>
>>
>> First a question that seems to be hard to find answer for: What is the
>> shortest flash-sync speed on the C-8080 and E-300? External studio
>> non-ttl flash is what I use.
>>
>> It seems that I need a digital camera. My heart tells me, buy that
>> 4x5"
>> Sinar F, you owe it to the coming generations that you once have made
>> art in real format. Or at least a *blad with that lovely 6cm by
>> 6cm-format. But the demands around me says different: "Go digital,
>> your
>> customers only want fast jobs, they don't want art. And you already
>> scan all your works". In this area I do mostly in-door work like
>> studio-portrait and product-photos. (I think I have shown you shoes?)
>> And some occasional indoor-office etc.
>>
>> So what h*ll. I'll give up. A week ago I had decided to wait to see
>> what's coming on that pma-show. Know we know it brought some lovely
>> lenses. But I have had my mind set on the C-8080. Well this weekend
>> Ida
>> has kept me and Anna awake a lot, and I have had much time too my
>> thoughts. (Carrying Ida on my shoulder, walking in a dark apartment,
>> not much else to do but thinking...) Maybe the E-300 is a better buy.
>>
>> As this is my first investment in a non-OM system my thinking was to
>> start cheap. With the C-8080 I could get a complete camera that fills
>> my need, it's affordable, it have a nice sharp lens, rather large
>> aperture all the way from wide to tele. And that is all. For the same
>> price (almost, a bit more) I get the step-in model of the E-series
>> equipped with a rather cheap (small aperture) lens. But the sensor is
>> larger and by that maybe it's easier to get some kind of shallower
>> DOF?
>> The argument here is that in the future I could grow in to this
>> system.
>> But I wont buy another lens from the start, because that will not fit
>> in budget.
>>
>> As you are the best bunch of enablers, possessors of deeper knowledge
>> and curmudgeons please come to my help!
>>
>> / Johan
>>
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