Quote Originally Posted by KG4CGC View Post
Those tend to not be, "cheap." Well, some of the Sigmas of past have been dogs in the DSLR market.
Nikon makes some cheap lens too. They are the "G" series. Chromatic aberration. $170 for an 80 to 300mm lens. What do you expect.

Just test drive a couple of models at a camera shop. The new DSLRs offered from even Pentax take some pretty crisp photos. I almost got a Pentax in 2006 but at the time they had battery life issues. I was headed that direction since I already have glass for my K1000. Matter of fact, I hoping someone made a totally manual DSLR like the K1000 SLR. It's all I knew how to use. Now you can get spoiled (and stupid) with auto and program modes.
The first DSLR I saw was at my evil twins work. Kodak made it. They used a Nikon body with a custom made back with what looked like the most overboard winder hanging off the bottom you ever saw. I think it was based on an F3 or F4 body. I don't remember which. It captured about 2/3 of the visible frame at something around 2 or 3 meg pixels. It seemed pretty amazing at the time. You could shoot bursts of three frames but then you had a wait about 30 seconds for it to write the files to the hard drive, Yes I said hard drive. It also had a built in modem so you could phone home with your pictures. Boy, that thing was battery hungry!

Back in those days they mostly still shot to film but, they would scan the negatives into the system and do any cropping, color correction, or dodging in software. If they needed hard copy, they would print using a dye sub printer. They didn't use optical printing at all. These days he can do simple editing on the camera itself and he tethers the camera to his cell phone to down load picture while he is in the field. I miracles of modern technology.

There I go again, Rambling on again....


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