where did you get this price from?
cathay?
wonder how much will the E cost?

eh KTCY,
gives you a juicier rumour.
hassy mirrorless
almost medium format
7k also
euro lah hahaa

you know you want it
hahaa

in my opinion arr... only in my opinion and of course you are free to disagree
there is no such thing as lousy lens. there is only lousy photographer

oh ya?
can give few example of lousy optical quality?

as i do interior and architecture photography, i don't like the 16-35 f4 lens because of the barrel distortion. but i don't call it a lousy lens.

you can correct the barrel distortion using photoshop. but you have to remember that you will probably need to do each and every photograph. as for the 16-35mm lens, zoom it at 16mm and the distortion is so bad that it looks almost fish eye. once you have corrected the distortion, your 16mm angle becomes more like 18mm and above. then what's the point of getting this lens? i rather use the rm 300 18-55mm lens

tilt shift lens is fantastic. but it's expensive too. i assume your friend is using nikon. nikkor has only 24mm PCE lens as the widest. this lens is a fantastic lens. however, canon has a 17mm TSE lens. sometimes due to the space, you just need a wider angle tilt shift lens. so, if your friend is serious in doing architecture/interior photography for a living, change system to canon. by the way 17mm TSE is about rm 8800 and 24mm TSE is 6500. but then again, i have heard that samyang are coming out with a 24mm tilt shift lens soon.

nikkor 14-24 is nice but it has a little bit of distortion too. and of course you couldn't shift the lens when you needed it to.

correcting them in post can get pretty accurate. it all depends on the the photographer's eye.
if you friend was using the 1Ds, then it's a plus point as he get to use the 17mm TSE... probably one of the best L lens. the 24mm TSE is fantastic too. just remember to get a super sturdy tripod (Gitzo series 3 at least) and a hot shoe spirit level and your friend can start to make some moneyyyy

upgrading to the f1.4 version?

KTCY, get the samyang version of f1.4
it's as good, considering the price that you pay

was brain storming on nikon club yesterday and realise that the KL members are not really active when it comes to outing and walk around and stuffs.

any nikon club members here? have you been to any outings before? if not why? what do you hope to see in the future?

hmm... okok will put in you guys' ideas.
by the way, medium format is not nikon so i can't bring those out hahaa

if i am not mistaken, cambo is not nikon

do you see nikon promoting sigma lenses?
or nissin flash?


nikon club in penang, terengganu and another state which i have forgotten are super active.
according to stats, the least active is currently kl hahaa
so they are scratching their heads now

i remember you mentioned about the price somewhere sometime.
and i forgot which page was it (i went back all the way till page 10)

berapa edi arr?
this camera make sense to me leh...

nikonrumors.com rumoured it at USD 1500
one thing that caught my attention is the 16 bit colour processing. why didn't they put it in the d800/e and d4?
why this?

if really 16 bits colour processing and rm 6000 hor, i no need to think edi. terus buy 5 units hahaa

one small thing that irritates me is dual SD card slots. what am i going to do with my CF cards now?

i welcome the small body. the dual SD card slots is a small matter. i just have to buy new cards and sell off my CF. but it is still irritating hahaa
on the 16 bit colours. some said it still capture on 14 bits but process at 16 bits. well, 16 bits process is still wayyyy better than 14 bits process...

few more days to go

ok
this applies to tonality of your photographs actually. and since tonal is affected by 2 main 'colour', brightness and darkness
8 bits mean 2 to the power of 8 = 256
this 256 refer to 256 tones per channel.

camera has 3 channels. RGB

14 bits mean 2 to the power of 14 = 16384
means you now have 16384 different tones per colour channel.
this also means your tonality is smoother that 8 bits

DSLR technology is at 14 bits and medium format digital back is 16 bits.
you guys must be saying that 14 bits to 16 bits is only 2 bits.. pfffttt how much difference does it make?

let's see

16 bits mean 2 to the power of 16 = 65536
means now you have a freaking 65636 different tones per channel.

i hope it's easy to understand hahaa

the only cameras that capture 16 bits and process 16 bits are the digital back
japanese dslr currently is 14 bits, 14 bits.
but d600 rumours is 16 bits pulak... it will be the first japanese camera.

i want a D400 actually. but they are welcome to name is as d7100 but the power pack punch of a supposedly d400.

eh give me a full frame D7000 and i will be as happy as a clown
people are complaining about the supposedly only auto and kelvin white balance on nikonrumors.com
hahaa

all you ever need is kelvin white balance dude