Do you also use a DSLR?

[raid]

Many of us do use a DSLR. Which one do you use and why?

I have never used a DSLR. By the time I accepted the fact that digital cameras were not gong away, Leica brought to the world the M8.
If I had been a pro, I would have used a DSLR for sure.

 

[Range-rover]

Sure, I just got a digital dinosaur a Nikon D2X to use along with my
Nikon S3, what choices this is what photography is all about.


Range

 

[amateriat]

No, not so far: for digital stuff, I have a Nikon P6000. For the rare bit of SLR work, it's an Olympus OM-2n with Sigma 21-35 zoom, usually bolted to a tripod or monopod.


- Barrett

 

[mfunnell]

I tend to use film and RF for B&W and a DSLR for colour. In regular use I have a Canon 5D (the original aka Mk I aka "classic" version) and a Canon 50D. I also have a cheap 2nd-hand Pentax K200D that gets used sometimes for digital with older Pentax MF lenses and a couple of earlier semi-retired Canon DSLRs (with essentially no resale value) that I sometimes lend to friends or take into dubious environments (dust, salt-spray and so on). I also have an EOS 30v body that sometimes comes along if I'm carrying Canon gear and think I might like to use film.

...Mike

 

[Cindy Flood]

I have a Sony A99 that I use with adapted manual focus Leica R lenses and a couple of older Minolta zooms (when reach is needed). The A99 focus peaking/magnifier makes focusing Leica R lenses easy.

My heart is still with rangefinders. I choose them whenever they can handle the job. M9 and M2 are my main shooters.

 

[Chris101]

No, not so far: for digital stuff, I have a Nikon P6000. For the rare bit of SLR work, it's an Olympus OM-2n with Sigma 21-35 zoom, usually bolted to a tripod or monopod.


- Barrett

I had that lens in the 80's, when it was the latest thing. I saw one at KEH for Olympus recently - did you get that one? Either way, cool! Some of those were my best pictures... or maybe it was just the times. Maybe my favorite lens, ever!

 

[rwintle]

Nikon D5000. It was reasonably priced, had a tilty-swively LCD screen (useful for ground-level or overhead hand-held photos, sometimes), and felt good in my hand. I've since added a used D70s as a second shooter, because it was dead cheap.

 

[Anton Caro]

Please, add NO to your quizz.
I do not have a DSLR ...

 

[barnwulf]

Now I use a Nikon F or a FE2 but not often. I sold my D300 and D700. - jim

 

[palmerfralick]

Dslr

Dslr

Most certainly and without regret. Nikons. Cameras are tools of the medium and if one type of camera is better suited for a task than another type I have no bias. I also have several rangefinders and pro video gear.

 

[JuJu]

Yes, a Nikon D600, to handle macro, short-tele and low light works where M9 suffers.

 

[mwoenv]

No. I've done my own b&w and color film and print development for many years, which is fun and easy, so I've never had the urge to use a digital camera.

 

[isoterica]

I chose Canon because of the macro glass and have not been disappointed. 🙂

 

[Tijmendal]

I do use one 🙁
That is to say: I've touched it exactly twice this year (since Jan 1st). One was for a shoot I did for someone, the second time because I was taking pictures in the archive (I'm a historian to-be). I really want to get rid of it though, but I don't know what I want instead, because I want a digital body...

 

[mdarnton]

I have a Nikon D300 that I got for the more technical stuff I do at work, which is mainly documentation of instruments and repairs. It pretty much lives with a macro lens on it when it's in the shop. We're going to be doing some videos, so I'm looking at a D7100 for that job,and to replace the D300.

I bought a Nikon over Canon because of N's support of legacy lenses, since most of my shooting outside the shop is on film, with old bodies. Since I'm not a zoom guy, nor much for auto anything, that's an important issue. I've got a complete set of manual lenses now for which I paid less than a lot of people spend for one fancy AF zoom.

 

[gnuyork]

Canon 1D MkII and Canon 5D MkII.

The 1D I used as my first foray into digital, and that was fun, but after a while I went back to shooting film.

The 5D was more for the video capabilities. I did however force myself to only bring the 5D on my last photo outing, and I didn't really have that much fun with it. I do like it for night photography though.

 

[Monochrom]

I don´t use DSLR´s although i had film slrs like the canon t50 and 10s film cameras as well a leica r6.2...and the last was a canon 5d.

I found them so difficult to focus and i don´t use zooms...anyway all ones i had were excellent machines...nothing to complain.

So for now i´m happy with the m9 and the sigma dp2 merrill....and zeiss glass...