Joel <Joel@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> And in general.
>
>1. BODY is just a small part of the whole photography system. Or you can
go
>for average body
>
>2. LENS is one of few most im****tant parts of camera gear. Or it's a
waste
>to mount a cheapie lens on expensive camera body.
It is a waste to mount an expensive lense on a cheapie
body. It is NOT a waste to use cheapie lenses, _where_
_appropriate_, on an expensive body.
For example, try using a 20-30 year old Nikon lense on a
the latest D60 camera body. It may not work at all, and
if it does it will require considerable technical talent
on the part of the photographer. You can't hand the two
of them to an average newbie and expect anything
productive to happen.
Do the same with a Nikon D3 and it will probably work.
Of course the question then is why do that? What is
gained by using a cheap lense on a D3 that can't be done
with an expensive lense on a D60? First, keep in mind
that cheap lenses can be optically just as good as
expensive ones, but just don't have modern frills that
make the work easier but do not actually make the image
better (VR, AF, etc.).
Try photomacrography, as one example. Buy a $55
bellows, a $20 adapter and a $25 50mm f/2.8 El Nikkor
enlarging lense. On a D3 the results are as good as it
gets. I'm not sure what it takes with a D60 to equal
that, but it won't be inexpensive, and it won't produce
equal images either!
That one example alone doesn't make the D3 over the D60
more economical, but one or two more similar situations,
and in fact there are many possibilities, will easily
pay the price of buying the D3 in the first place. (I
wouldn't argue that case for the D300 against the D3,
because frankly the D300 would probably win based on
that criteria alone.)
By going for an expensive body that can do anything, the
possibilities in the future are not restricted. If a
cheap lense is workable for a given job, buy it, use it,
put it on the shelf and forget it; it didn't cost an arm
and a leg.
--
Floyd L. Davidson <http://www.apaflo.com/floyd_davidson>
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) floyd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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