I shot with the first generation 5D for several years and it had terrible problem with banding particularly when shooting back lit subjects. The upgrade to the MK II made all of the difference in the world. Now with the MK III the MK II is coming down in price. Looks like about $1500 USD so close to the £1000 mark.
Photographers Speak To Me! Nikon D2x
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I am still working, in fact I am typing this on a work computer... Currently I work for a small paper in my hometown but used work at the Associated Press where I photographed all of the big events on the west coast of the US. Highlights include the 1989 San Francisco earthquake and 5 years later the earthquake in Northridge. A couple of Superbowl games NBA playoffs and the World Series. Later when I worked in Florida there were a few hurricanes, murder rampages and the like.
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Yes, digital has a lot to answer for! :|
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When I left the paper I did weddings for a while until I got to the point where, having set up my shot, I could have quite happily committed multiple murder on all the guests who then dived in with their f*cking compact digitals...
...then had the cheek go come up and show me afterwards! :x
I did a family wedding last year; I used two Olympus digital-compacts, Photoshop'd them to b*ggery because SWMBO didn't like the fact her daughter's bra-straps were visible through the dress, added a couple of inches of drape to 'clean up' the garter shot ( :shock: ), cut & pasted a couple of heads in the groups because no matter how hard I tried certain people either looked like startled bl**dy rabbits or blinked ( :x ), bought a bargain quality, quality album off ebay, then uploaded all the final photo's to Tru-print!
Less than a week later I had one of the best wedding albums you've ever seen! :roll:
I only used go charge a flat £500 fee, and I was still making a tidy profit, but the number of times they would go with someone charging over twice that because they thought they must be getting more for their money! :facepalm:
Used to do some nice Christenings too; big country church with a nice long nave, f*ck-off-great Manfrotto tripod and available light...
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...then had the cheek go come up and show me afterwards! :x
I did a family wedding last year; I used two Olympus digital-compacts, Photoshop'd them to b*ggery because SWMBO didn't like the fact her daughter's bra-straps were visible through the dress, added a couple of inches of drape to 'clean up' the garter shot ( :shock: ), cut & pasted a couple of heads in the groups because no matter how hard I tried certain people either looked like startled bl**dy rabbits or blinked ( :x ), bought a bargain quality, quality album off ebay, then uploaded all the final photo's to Tru-print!
Less than a week later I had one of the best wedding albums you've ever seen! :roll:
I only used go charge a flat £500 fee, and I was still making a tidy profit, but the number of times they would go with someone charging over twice that because they thought they must be getting more for their money! :facepalm:
Used to do some nice Christenings too; big country church with a nice long nave, f*ck-off-great Manfrotto tripod and available light...
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highlandsflyer":33k0fina said:
I've currently got 4 D2's in various states of repair, beautiful cameras to work on and use, but can I make a suggestion of a D300 instead!
Superior to both the D2 and D200's, don't bother with the D300s though, as there's nothing really better on it versus the D300.
With regard to megapixels, unless you're going to be printing out huge posters, then anything up to 10 megapixels or so is fine
