Just annoying and pointless to argue with.

Is it an American car? Americans can’t design or build cars that do anything but go in straight lines and do that so badly. Have you ever tried turning a corner in an American car? You are ludicrous. I think UPS are delivery service but don’t know of their depot near me – I do use TNT though and they are brilliant – never lost anything or had delays with them – not sure if you have them in US but they are good.

Are you jealous that I am successful and know what I am talking about?

“So real man use abacuses and not calculators? haha you’re hysterical.”

YOU ARE MAKING MY ARGUMENT FOR ME NOW – A REAL MAN CAN USE BOTH! – AN IDIOT HAS TO USE THE CALCULATOR – THINK OF MY OWN CAR ANALOGY – KEEP UP, I KNOW YOU ARE STRUGGLING, I WILL GO SLOWER AND KEEP WRITING IN CAPITALS FOR YOU IF THAT HELPS.

SERIOUSLY IF THAT IS THE BEST YOU CAN DEBATE, YOU SHOULD MAYBE STOP. EEK!

I DOUBT THERE ARE SEVERAL THOUSAND PHOTOGRAPHERS MORE ACCOMPLISHED THAN ME – THERE ARE SOME THAT I ADMIT ARE BETTER AND THAT I HAVE SO MUCH RESPECT FOR. INTERESTINGLY THOUGH THEY ARE ALL ARTISTS (PROPER ARTISTS, THAT IS!!) FIRST – THEY VERY OFTEN HAVE A BACKGROUND IN PAINTING BEFORE THEY EVER PICKED UP A CAMERA.

MOST PHOTOGRAPHERS HAVE MERELY MASTERED THE EASIEST ART OF ALL (AND IT IS THAT – THAT IS FACT, AGREE OR DISAGREE WITH ANY OF WHAT I SAY BUT PHOTOGRAPHY IS THE EASIEST OF THE ARTS TO MASTER) AND THE BLOOD HAS RUSHED TO THEIR HEAD AS A RESULT – THAT’S ONE OF THE REASONS THEY HAVE ENDLESS DISCUSSIONS ON THEIR EQUIPMENT – RATHER LIKE THE POORLY ENDOWED MAN WHO HAS TO BUY A FERRARI TO COMPENSATE.

THERE IS A VERY FAMOUS QUOTE, ONE OF MY FAVORITES IN FACT… “WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TWO ARTISTS AND TWO PHOTOGRAPHERS?……… TWO ARTISTS CAN GET TOGETHER WITHOUT DISCUSSING BRUSHES.

SO IN SHORT, YES A TRUE ARTIST USES MANUAL AND THE IDIOT/AMATEUR DOES NOT OR CANNOT GET THEIR BRAIN TO UNDERSTAND THIS. OF COURSE THE TRUE ARTIST CAN – AND KNOWS HE CAN – SWITCH TO AUTOFOCUS ANYTIME BUT CHOOSES NOT TO, THUS MAKING HIMSELF EVEN MORE GREAT – LIKE ME AND MY FRIENDS.

Those that say it has a future are just fooling themselves – when was the last SERIOUS DX lens introduced? Not cheapo kit lenses that they can throw together (and usually do) but quality optics?

Personally I wish I had stayed 35mm film until they introduced the D700 as I would have saved tens of thousands!

I know I feel a bit cheated and though I now love the big viewfinder again, I could have lived with DX, but feel they took everyone for a ride. But hey, that’s marketing isn’t it and we do live in this throw away society which we will come to regret eventually.

But nobody thinks about making Hollywood class movies with a D90 or 5D MK II, that is obvious, but maybe a short.

Besides the final production one can make with this kind of Movie/Video tools, I want to say something about AF & MF in Video/Movie mode:

Manual AND Auto Focus has their OWN place and time.

Sometimes MF is necessary, other AF can do a better and faster job (also in still photography). It’s that simple.

Manual Focusing on small 3″ or even 4″ LCD screen can NOT deliver perfect focusing because of the size of the image your are viewing.
So far the image being recorded in Video mode in a DSLR is displayed only in the LCD screen.

THAT IS another reason why AF or “Focusing Assistance” is (could be) SO usefull and important in Video mode.

Focus tracking indicators on a subject or point will help a lot.

And of course there is the marketing reason, like channeljockey said, consumers also want AF on video, and they can have good reasons for that.

BUT AF in Video must NOT override or eliminate the Manual Focus because it would limitate the creative possibilities, making it just like a home-like camcorder, useless for Professional use.

Both modes has their own place and should be implemented.

In short, even if all thermal and read noise were eliminated the small sample of a small pixel means more noise.

DX has a limitation, but it’s not “dying”.
If it was dying Nikon wouldn’t release any new DX camera.
And there is still space for DX new models between D300 and D700.

Maybe Nikon already defined that keeping place for a D400, D500, D600. No one can be Really sure if the D500 and D600 will be DX format, but I guess there is a good chance.

A company don’t do business only with the high-end devices. INSTEAD they can produce the high-end thanks to selling mid and low-end products.

One VERY good thing is to watch the list of products the company has sold the most in the past years. They wouldn’t drop something they are selling well.

Of course improvements and developments will change that path, but not drastically cutting the best selling lines because I would hurt their own business.

Olympus does not have the ammount of lenses you can still use with a DX Nikon camera (Full frame lenses in a DX DSLR are perfectly compatible besides the 1.5x factor, and in some cases it is a benefit)

Dumbest “consensus” bunch of crap–if you didn’t know, there’s a “new” Nikon camera, uh, actually, THREE FX sensor cameras–in case you’ve been asleep for the past year plus, they are the D3, D3X and the D700. Yeah, if you check around, I heard some kinda positive reviews. Duh!!!!

DX is dying, and will be dead within 5 years, IMHO. DX was and is marketing crap from the time when Nikon (and Sony and others) could not make a FX sensor (either affordably or at all) and could not compete with Canon head on–it was to sell a weakness as a sales asset. If DX was so good, Olympus would rule the photo world with its 4/3 Standard–but that’s not the case, is it?

Later than Sooner – excellent. Think you may have realized what Sooner than Later was up to.

you mean while you are commuting to your job at the UPS warehouse you appreciate your automatic saturn better? I can see that.

>Real drivers use manual – others don’t.
So real man use abacuses and not calculators? haha you’re hysterical.

>Real artists use manual focus – and, >well, others don’t.

So if you are not using MF you’re not a real artist? I’m sure there are several thousand photographers far more accomplished than you, who make a living shooting AF. Man you gotta start your tv show. you’re goood.

Cmon boy get the bone! good boy.