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donaldejose said:
Will Nikon destroy sales if it starts to put "night vision" in the new camera bodies?
My Sony cameras literally do have "nightshot" and "nightframing" modes. But they use built-in IR lamps and project a laser grid to focus and see in total darkness. I don't expect Nikon's supposed "nightvision" mode to be anything like that.
Night vision isn't going to kill f2.8 lenses either.
Testing123 said:
The difference (when talking about DoF OR light capturing) between a 300 f/4 and a 300 f/2.8 is significantly larger (both as a percentage and as an absolute) than the difference between a 50 f/1.4 and 50 f/1.2, yet people seem more than willing to sell their mother up the river for the latter. ;)
Oh I am certainly one of those - bring me the Noct 1.2!
It seems like there are four camps in this discussion:
1) Bokeh Kings - The DOF camp.
2) Dark Warriors - Low light camp
3) The AF Speed Demons - Need for AF speed Camp
4) 56ers - those shooting 5.6 and above.
The "night vision" sounds similar to what my sb-900 throws out in low light to focus and is less intrusive than that damn white AF assist light that I always forget to turn off. Niko is right about Sony and I think Canon (at least from film days) used something similar.
My last true AF film camera was a Canon Elan IIe that tracked my eyeball to help with focus. That was about the coolest thing ever and worked quite well for fast action but not so well when I was looking around the frame for exposure points. I often thought that would still be a great feature if it was improved on.
I think the High iso quality and ability to stop down lenses to get additional DOF is a huge plus. Shoot someone at an angle, in low light, with a 85mm and getting both eyes in the focus plane can make or break the photo.
Funny thing is, when I hear higher usable ISO I immediately think cool, higher shutter speeds, not stopping down. What I shoot is dancers and musicians on poorly lit (or sometimes just dark) stages. To me, two more usable stops of ISO would mean two steps faster shutter speeds. bumping from 1/125 to 1/500 would be absolutely fantastic.
Get slower lenses? Not likely.
Seriously this is how all these most recent threads sound like!
And you think you're adding something valuable by adding useless spam videos?
roflol. I think we all need to step back from the keyboard and take a breath sometimes. I have stopped arguing sometime because I have caught myself trying to make a point to someone that either does not understanding me, does not care to debate like adults or just plain does not want to listen to anything other then themselves=)
~Cheers..
Plus I love the dark and bokeh Does that make me from the Dark King or the Bokeh Warriors camp TaoTeJared?
aetas you and I are both a free agents!
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