Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 16:05:55 -0800
From: Winsor Crosby <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [OM] Re: OT - Awesome Digital Photography
Is it possible to do manual focusing on the D60 or D100 cameras with a zuiko
mounted on it ?
I would think so. The B&H says that the D60 takes EF lenses and all
of the tilt/shift EF lenses are manual focus.
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Winsor Crosby
Long Beach, California
yeah, Sure can...if you switch off the AF on an AF lens body, the
lens and camera will focus wherever the photographer manually
focuses the lens. Same would be true for a manual focus only lens.
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 16:29:07 -0800
From: Mike Veglia <msvphoto@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [OM] Re: OT - Awesome Digital Photography
<snip>
I would add the Fuji S2 to that list...if you get one that works reliably it
may be the best of the three.
I've read that the Fuji has some unorthodox battery requirements.
That's pretty much the holding pattern I'm in too (besides having no
equipment budget that is).
<snip>
So is the Fuji S2, and from what I gather it offers pretty amazing image
quality. However, I would really like to test a Can*n D60 with the Zuiko
350/2.8 (Stephen, I'm guessing you're game to help me test this if we can
score an adapter????) to see how well it works out. One place that does
adapters, in the UK, told me they do not do an OM to EOS adapter because
lenses won't focus out to infinity (and they could be wrong). The 350/2.8
focuses beyond infinity anyway so that wouldn't be an issue for me.
Yes, we can sure do that. I would love to try that experiment.
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 21:50:34 -0500
From: "Jim L'Hommedieu" <lamadoo@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [OM] Re: OT - Awesome Digital Photography
Popular Photography says gives the nod to the Nikon D100 for faster focusing
especially under low light. (That's not important to everyone, admittedly.)
For what it's worth, Pop Photo says the D100 is not based on a film camera
but they may be in denial. Never having held the D100, it sure looks like
the N80 to me.
That might be true, but the D60 had better resolution and sharpness,
less noise than the Nikon acc. to DPReview.
I guess you decide what's more important for you. DPReview did say
the D100 had better autofocus performance than the D60, however, the
CMOS sensors in Canons represent a big advantage over CCD's IMHO.
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 14:14:01 +1100
From: Wayne Harridge <wayneharridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [OM] Digital vs. film
> Stephen Scharf <scharfsj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Take a look at these and see if you see ugly pixelation...
http://www.jsfotografie.de/zepeople/index.htm
> http://www.jsfotografie.de/portzeland/index.htm
>
Don't know about ugly pixelation, but definitely some ugly artifacts from what
looks like sharpening. Have a look at the hair across the girl's face.
Wayne Harridge
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 13:40:36 +0800
From: "C.H.Ling" <chling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [OM] Digital vs. film
Overall the pictures are over sharpened.
C.H.Ling
One shouldn't blame the camera for sharpening artifacts induced by
the end-user. In this case, the photographer probably used Unsharp
Mask in Photoshop in a fairly unsophisticated way. The D30 and D60
do very little in-camera sharpening, with the intent that it is
better to do too little, than do too much, sharpening in-camera,
which would be a lot harder to correct. As such, D30 and D60 images
often look a little soft right out of the camera. Canon leaves it to
the end-user to provide the level of sharpening desired. The fact is
that both of these cameras provide a great deal of picture detail
that can be brought out to produce superb results using proper
workflow and sophisticated sharpening techniques. Check out
www.fredmiranda.com for examples of what D30's and D60's can do.
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