Comments on: Nikon D60 Second Edition

By: Richard Starkey

Richard Starkey — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:54:32 +0000

I can tell when a house is built with a nail gun or the builders has been a true builder and used a hammer. Its easy!

By: Johnny Cash

Johnny Cash — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:08:21 +0000

… or ISO 25600.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:14:37 +0000

As someone below has pointed out, the gold could be something to do with Nikon celebrating 50 years ? I think they just had a 75th for Nikkor (?) so maybe we can look forward to a diamond special edition too ?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:29:38 +0000

What’s film ?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:15:43 +0000

As for Black and Gold, well it is Nikon’s 50th anniversary (as in Golden).

Thanks for that – I couldn’t understand why Nikon had pimped a bottom end camera.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:58:25 +0000

Minority Report was shot entirely on digital because it gave the movie a particular look the director wanted. It’s horses for courses.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:47:49 +0000

Digital isn’t 100% digital. It’s an analogue signal that has been digitised. This is true of music too. What matters is the sampling rate and bit depth. One day, digital will exceed the fine detail in the original analogue and the whole film vs “digital” debate will be moot. SACD and DVD-audio is a good example – and they haven’t really caught on because the masses can’t hear the difference between a CD and an SACD. So, for the masses, film is dead, because they just can’t see a difference.

By: Gustav

Gustav — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:26:58 +0000

For the record, when I look in magazines, I find a pretty even split between film and digital. I also find that the quality of the image is *not* correlated to either film or digital.

Have you every walked into someone’s house and said “that’s a nice house, the builder must have used a hammer and not a nail gun?” I haven’t.

Have you ever read a book and said “Wow, what a great story! This guy must have used a typewriter and not a word processor?”

It seems we’ve all forgotten that it’s the photographer that makes the image, and not the equipment.

By: Artisan

Artisan — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:59:22 +0000

Yes but some of it was on hand-held digi-cams so they could get the some of the slum scenes without being rumbled.

Canon WAS claiming – or someone from Canon was claiming in the press – it was a G10? (not sure what the canon p &s range are called) and a 5DMII but I would be surprised at that.

By: [NR] admin

[NR] admin — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 02:44:34 +0000

Slumdog was shot on on Fujicolor colour negative film:

http://www.ephotozine.com/article/Slumdog-Millionaire-shot-on-Fujicolor-colour-negative-film-11268

By: [NR] admin

[NR] admin — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 01:25:35 +0000

I am ok with that too, but people started to be nasty to each other.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:33:45 +0000

No, but it shouts a bunch of comments and put “you know dawg” or “it’s cool dawg” with them.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:32:32 +0000

Admin, this only happens once in a blue moon, lets not jump to extremes. This kind of thing brings a little vitality to the board. So long as it’s not every day, I’m okay with it.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:07:41 +0000

It’s actually not a matter of taste. It is likely that you can not hear a bit of difference, you have just convinced yourself that there is a difference. Your ear likely can’t hear the “dynamic range” that analog can provide. I think gizmodo just had a post with different frequencies. I was surprised at how limited my hear has become in my old age (I’m 30).

What you probably like about analog is the warmth of the recording. Records are far from perfect. They process of laying down a record track and transferring it to a record introduces a lot of errors. You hear those errors and assume it is part of the music. It’s kind of like taking a cheese cloth image. It softens the edges and to some it gives a more beautiful image.

This issue came up in film a while back. It’s still argued today though technology is such that it’s pretty much stopped. DP and directors all said digital is too perfect it doesn’t forgive. That is why you like analog it allows the rough edges to be smoothed. More and more are moving to digital filming. They are the minority, but they are growing. The reason why, is the realization that there is nothing wrong with perfection.

I have seen test after test that prove digital photography in it’s current state is better than film. I hear people talk about dynamic range, but when have you been able to print a picture in high dynamic range anyway. So what does it matter. But if DR is of great concern, do what I did, buy and S5 Pro. Hey for the first time the someone has beat it. You can throw down the money and get a D3x.

Okay, enough arguing. Just realize that it is not likely that you can even tell difference and you are just thinking there is a difference.

By: matthew

matthew — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 03:02:22 +0000

wow. way to come off as a know-it-all jerk. i was simply stating my experiences in the rare chances ive gotten to talk to a DP or from what others have told me. sorry if i did not clarify that. and i said film industry pretty broadly, i should have been more specific. i work at a VFX house, so there is a good chance you do know more about the actual camera work and DP’s than i do. you win, youre the best! anything else you’d like to jump down my throat about?

By: Kitty Shark

Kitty Shark — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 23:43:07 +0000

Really? where do you work? I am in the industry and would take issue with the reasons you imagine DPs use film. Please enlighten me. I would be delighted to be enlightened.

By: Kitty Shark

Kitty Shark — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 23:40:51 +0000

Think the poster knows that. They said it is an acronym and were just telling how to say the acronym.

By: matthew

matthew — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 22:32:20 +0000

As someone who works in the film industry, I can tell you that much of it is still shot on film because thats what the DP’s know. Its how they work. They don’t understand the properties of digital as well as film. In fact most people agree that digital is far better quality, but like I said, its mostly because the DP knows how their film stock reacts to certain lights/etc.

By: [NR] admin

[NR] admin — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 17:43:30 +0000

Johnny – I don’t think he was referring to you – I think he was using the word “nazis” to describe the high tensions from the above comments.

By: [NR] admin

[NR] admin — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 17:40:16 +0000

OK, I will be doing some housecleaning here – post with personal attacks to other readers will be deleted without warning. Please do not use ALL CAPS – this means you are screaming. Let’s keep it civilized here, otherwise I will be forced to introduce registration.