10-12-2010, 07:03 PM
Hi Serkan,
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Well, what I've learned from forums (and I personally believe so) is that the investment is better made for the lenses. The lenses are the faithful friends... But all in all, I think the choice must be depending on the way we take pictures. My 70-300mm will be fine with the D700 because I barely used the 250-300mm range in my D90. What I'm looking forward to is whether the 70mm will still be deadly sharp or not. Also, my expectations regarding D700 are below the 50mm range (Nikon 24-85D and Zeiss / Nikon 50mm) and moreover the 105mm micro.
Kind regards,
Serkan
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I agree with the statement about glass before bodies, but not necessarily when the choice is between FF and APS-C. Certainly for me it was quite a revelation, going from APS-C to FF, and of course, it may be different for others, but the increase in IQ to me was almost earth shattering in nature.
I started with a 350D, and a bunch of lenses when moving to dslr from slr, and that indeed was quite a step up already. At the time I could have gotten myself a 5D instead at the time, maybe with a few lenses less. If I'd known in advance, I actually would have chosen that road, instead of going from 350D to 400D X2 to 40D and finally a 5D in addition, later followed by the 5D II. Apart from the fact that I would have saved money, FF just provides a very difficult to describe quality you don't get with APS-C. Even lesser lenses seem to look better in FF. And really good lenses, well, until this day shots that I throw away are still a pleasure to look at. As indicated, YMMV, but that certainly is how I feel <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
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Do I regret the path I followed, in the end? No, not really. After all it is an evolutionary path, getting used to the new paradigm and its new way of processing etc., and ever striving for a little more perfection, especially low light performance, IOW, IQ, and then there is the VF as well. However, my biggest step in IQ increase was going from the 40D to the 5D classic. And that was just keeping all lenses the same except for the few EF-S lenses I had, although the EF lenses got slightly different uses.
Kind regards, Wim
[quote name='PuxaVida' timestamp='1286891774' post='3594']
Well, what I've learned from forums (and I personally believe so) is that the investment is better made for the lenses. The lenses are the faithful friends... But all in all, I think the choice must be depending on the way we take pictures. My 70-300mm will be fine with the D700 because I barely used the 250-300mm range in my D90. What I'm looking forward to is whether the 70mm will still be deadly sharp or not. Also, my expectations regarding D700 are below the 50mm range (Nikon 24-85D and Zeiss / Nikon 50mm) and moreover the 105mm micro.
Kind regards,
Serkan
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I agree with the statement about glass before bodies, but not necessarily when the choice is between FF and APS-C. Certainly for me it was quite a revelation, going from APS-C to FF, and of course, it may be different for others, but the increase in IQ to me was almost earth shattering in nature.
I started with a 350D, and a bunch of lenses when moving to dslr from slr, and that indeed was quite a step up already. At the time I could have gotten myself a 5D instead at the time, maybe with a few lenses less. If I'd known in advance, I actually would have chosen that road, instead of going from 350D to 400D X2 to 40D and finally a 5D in addition, later followed by the 5D II. Apart from the fact that I would have saved money, FF just provides a very difficult to describe quality you don't get with APS-C. Even lesser lenses seem to look better in FF. And really good lenses, well, until this day shots that I throw away are still a pleasure to look at. As indicated, YMMV, but that certainly is how I feel <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
' />.Do I regret the path I followed, in the end? No, not really. After all it is an evolutionary path, getting used to the new paradigm and its new way of processing etc., and ever striving for a little more perfection, especially low light performance, IOW, IQ, and then there is the VF as well. However, my biggest step in IQ increase was going from the 40D to the 5D classic. And that was just keeping all lenses the same except for the few EF-S lenses I had, although the EF lenses got slightly different uses.
Kind regards, Wim
Gear: Canon EOS R with 3 primes and 2 zooms, 4 EF-R adapters, Canon EOS 5 (analog), 9 Canon EF primes, a lone Canon EF zoom, 2 extenders, 2 converters, tubes; Olympus OM-D 1 Mk II & Pen F with 12 primes, 6 zooms, and 3 Metabones EF-MFT adapters ....
