Nikon Help - Whats in an "E"?

your trusty 18-200 will not cut it

My trusty 18-200 is gathering dust. 90% of my stuff is done with my nifty fifty 1.8.

Want to get the 24-70 f/2.8to start with, and while I'm dreaming, the 70-200.

the 70-200.

I thought I needed that lens too, that was until I went through my metadata and saw +90% of my photos fell into the 24-70 category?

That will be my second purchase after the 24-70. but sometimes - sometimes - a man wants the extra zooming power. But I'll get a 105mm macro first.

the 70-200.

I thought I needed that lens too, that was until I went through my metadata and saw +90% of my photos fell into the 24-70 category?

Ya, but once you get a 70-200, you'll find that pretty immediately 100% of your shots will fall into the 70-200mm category.

Ya, but once you get a 70-200, you'll find that pretty immediately 100% of your shots will fall into the 70-200mm category.

Thats what i'm afraid of. Damn this is getting expensive!

Damn this is getting expensive!

Fortunately whomever walked off with my D7000 on Saturday morning didn't get the 70-200 which was in another bag.
However, I have had to rachet up my bank robbery plans to now also look at a D800 :-(

I was not as lucky, when it was my turn for "equipment liberation" they took my 70-200II and 16-35 with a nice 1DsIII.

Hurts!

Back on topic, Gerry you of all people should start collecting primes, unless you wanna hit the function market.

Nothing better than a 24-70 and 70-200 with a macro and a prime or 2 to shoot a low light function.

Matt

Matt - I love my 50mm nifty fifty! Not that I shoot low-light, I love the depsth of field at eff-one-point-fuckall, and I love the sharpness at f/8

Here is an idea!

I assume you haven't made a purchase yet.

Why not wait for Photokina in Sept, I believe we gonna see an announcement from both sides of some "entry" level full frame bodies soon.

That way you will be able to get more glass for you $$'s.

Like they say bodies come and go, glass is forever.

Why not wait for Photokina in Sept

I was supposed to go! tickets booked and everything, then we hit a bit of a financial pothole and we needed to cancel the trip to Germany.

EVERYTHING has been put on hold now. The month of June has seen about 60k worth of unplanned expenses in my houeshold. every spare cent w had, a a lot of rands we did not have - is gone. so both Phototokina and the D800 is, for now, a dream. It will take me about 5, 6 months to recover.

So have you gotten your answer yet about what the difference is between the D800 & D800E is yet Gerry?

If not, basically the E version doesn't have an AA (anti-aliasing) filter over the sensor. If you do any kind of google search on the comparison between the two, you'll see that the E version is actually very noticably sharper than the non-E version.

I had the D800E for a few days last week to test out & man, its so sharp I bled. That backed by being so sharp at such incredible resolution -its no wonder I've heard many people say the D800E is the medium format killer. With all the benefits of a 35mm system of speed & reliability.

Of course, you do need the glass to extrapolate all that image data. I don't know too many of the Nikon lenses, but I used the 14-24, 50, 70-200 mostly. All of those lenses were sharp from end to end & handled the resolution very well.

Just to comment on this pages lens recommendation, I must say that yes, if you do own a 70-200 you will shoot 99% of your work on that lens. Not because you look awesome with a mother big lens, but it gives the nicest (in the zoom category) results for people work. Even 70mm on a FF has a pretty wide feeling to it.

^ why do you think we have seen such large discounts from the MF boys?

I still believe that 35mm and MF are two different tools but MF is being pushed more into a niche with these incredible offerings.

maybe I should just save a while longer and go MF?

maybe I should just save a while longer and go MF?

R35k vs R100k+. Yeah... that might be a bit longer on the saving that you would like.

Heya ALL MB'ers !!! ... ok, I was looking at this a while back - I mainly basing my comment on a teacher who has actual experience on this exact camera.... Charles Lucima in California (a guy I studied with)

He did a webcast (quite a lengthy one) - & his comments in a nutshell were:

1) Medium format cameras dont have an anti-aliase layer

2) the D800e was almost as crisp & good as his Hasselblad H3 images

3) He considered that the image quality was soo good, in fact, he found it hard in terms of IQ alone to keep the Hasselblad.

If I didnt have so much Canon L glass - Id get the D800e in a heartbeat!!!!