d2mini
Member
Hi all,
I actually have two separate questions.
Right now I shoot nikon dslrs for pleasure and business. But sometimes I don't want to deal with lugging around the heavy equipment and depending on the situation I get very self conscious whipping out this giant hunk of machinery with an even bigger hunk of glass attached to it. I've been looking at small point and shoots and have tried a few but the dslr has spoiled me image wise and I just can't stand the low quality images that come out of the p&s. Edges are undefined, pixely, posterized, fuzzy, and the images have poor dynamic range and bad color. Not unexpected results when you're comparing a $300 p&s to a $2k dslr, but dissapointing nonetheless. And I always shoot full manual with my dslrs. I don't want the camera making decisions for me and applying sharpening and noise filters and such. The RD-1 on the other hand seems to produce quality images from what I can tell on the net, but have not had the opportunity to study a high-res raw file up close and personal. The problem is that I got into photography fairly recent, after everything went digital. Other than a brief period during college while taking a photo class, I don't really have any film experience, hence abosolutely no rangefinder experience. So what I'm wondering is if you think a rangefinder is what I need... quality images, manual control, relatively small, unobtrusive...?
My second question, for those that have nikon/canon/other dslr experience... how would you physically describe your images from those cameras compared to your RD-1? I've looked at flikr galleries and images posted here and there seems to be a "look" I like yet can't place my finger on what it is exactly. And it could just be my imagination, my subconscious looking for a difference and wanting to like them. But as long as the quality of the images is at least as good as my D70 (doesn't even have to match my D200) I would be happy. I just don't want to take pics and then later regret that I didn't take that same pic with my dslr instead. Ya know?
Thanks for your insight! 🙂
I actually have two separate questions.
Right now I shoot nikon dslrs for pleasure and business. But sometimes I don't want to deal with lugging around the heavy equipment and depending on the situation I get very self conscious whipping out this giant hunk of machinery with an even bigger hunk of glass attached to it. I've been looking at small point and shoots and have tried a few but the dslr has spoiled me image wise and I just can't stand the low quality images that come out of the p&s. Edges are undefined, pixely, posterized, fuzzy, and the images have poor dynamic range and bad color. Not unexpected results when you're comparing a $300 p&s to a $2k dslr, but dissapointing nonetheless. And I always shoot full manual with my dslrs. I don't want the camera making decisions for me and applying sharpening and noise filters and such. The RD-1 on the other hand seems to produce quality images from what I can tell on the net, but have not had the opportunity to study a high-res raw file up close and personal. The problem is that I got into photography fairly recent, after everything went digital. Other than a brief period during college while taking a photo class, I don't really have any film experience, hence abosolutely no rangefinder experience. So what I'm wondering is if you think a rangefinder is what I need... quality images, manual control, relatively small, unobtrusive...?
My second question, for those that have nikon/canon/other dslr experience... how would you physically describe your images from those cameras compared to your RD-1? I've looked at flikr galleries and images posted here and there seems to be a "look" I like yet can't place my finger on what it is exactly. And it could just be my imagination, my subconscious looking for a difference and wanting to like them. But as long as the quality of the images is at least as good as my D70 (doesn't even have to match my D200) I would be happy. I just don't want to take pics and then later regret that I didn't take that same pic with my dslr instead. Ya know?
Thanks for your insight! 🙂