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the Nikon SLR's are top quality

[R1cho]

Originally Posted by PLANK

i've got an OM10 with plenty of lenses and filters etc. I have often wondered (and asked) if there is a digital body that would accept the lenses

i've been looking around and from what i can see they should fit other olympus cameras, not 100% sure tho, take them to a camera shop and ask them.

[(RIP) PLANK]

on the lens interchangability thing i just found this thread:
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question...3073633AA2uhfR

looks possible, but the body they suggest is out of my price range

[R1cho]

Originally Posted by PLANK

on the lens interchangability thing i just found this thread:
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question...3073633AA2uhfR

looks possible, but the body they suggest is out of my price range

you should be able to pick up a e420 body reasonably cheap http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Olympus-Camedi...item3f05e99a46

[lacroupade]

Originally Posted by PLANK

on the lens interchangability thing i just found this thread:
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question...3073633AA2uhfR

looks possible, but the body they suggest is out of my price range

They do fit, but thats only half the story....the problem is that you lose virtually all of the automated functions, from autofocus to exposure.....you have to do the whole thing manually. In addition, the resolution never seems quite as good.

I've always used Nikon and still have a thirty year old FE that still easily outperforms even the best digital SLRs in terms of picture quality, yet if I put the lenses on to my D70S, the results are never as good as with the dedicated digital lens.

[(RIP) PLANK]

Interesting, it might be worth me just buying a cheaper camera complete with a decent lens, and forgeting my old stuff. I'll get around to it eventualy

[lacroupade]

Originally Posted by PLANK

Interesting, it might be worth me just buying a cheaper camera complete with a decent lens, and forgeting my old stuff. I'll get around to it eventualy

TBH it is Plank, you can get carried away and spend stupid money but the technology is always leaping ahead....I mean the latest pro DSLRs are alteady over the 20 megapixie mark, but with four figure price tags....but you can buy, say, a 6Mp Nikon D70S second hand for about 200-250....it would have been around 700 new.

And don't be led astray by 12Mp point and shoot cameras....the lens is what takes pictures not the CCD and an apparently lower resolution Nikon, Canon etc DSLR lens will piss all over them any day of the week as far as picture resolution goes.

Just take a few older DSLRs and read their reviews online, then pick one you fancy.

[(RIP) PLANK]

I saw somehting on telly about cameras with big mega pixxels, and they reconed, that you would be better off with a better quality camera with no more than 10 mega whatsist, as yu say the lens is responsible for a lot. And they reconed that the processor in the camera was also important, and that cheaper caeras with very high resolution didn't have the processor speed to match and were slow to respond, and slow to reload after a shot.

A photographer from a big local paper came to our house last year and he had a s****y digital camera he said the body alone cost £15k and that was taking shots a fast as a motor drive 35mm slr, it was quite impressive as were the photos, but who can afford that not me!

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the bloke i know runs the local camera club, since his wife died . so picking up a nice used camera is the place to buy

try before you buy too

[lacroupade]

Originally Posted by PLANK

I saw somehting on telly about cameras with big mega pixxels, and they reconed, that you would be better off with a better quality camera with no more than 10 mega whatsist, as yu say the lens is responsible for a lot. And they reconed that the processor in the camera was also important, and that cheaper caeras with very high resolution didn't have the processor speed to match and were slow to respond, and slow to reload after a shot.

A photographer from a big local paper came to our house last year and he had a s****y digital camera he said the body alone cost £15k and that was taking shots a fast as a motor drive 35mm slr, it was quite impressive as were the photos, but who can afford that not me!

never so much bullshit talked about as money eh?!

I mean not only are the mainstream top end DSLRs all around the £5000 mark, but WTF would a local paper photographer be doing affording a camera that would be well over £20k with lenses (if the body was £15k)....was his name Walter Mitty by any chance LOL!

[R1cho]

Originally Posted by lacroupade

I mean not only are the mainstream top end DSLRs all around the £5000 mark, but WTF would a local paper photographer be doing affording a camera that would be well over £20k with lenses

agreed, top end bodys are just over 5k, its the lenses that cost though some ranging upto and over 12k, only serious sports photographer get lenses at that price, i cant see a papr paying that much for a camera setup, even the big papers rely on the paps and their expensive gear for the photos they use, me thinks he was telling big huge pork pies.

[(RIP) PLANK]

Well, i'm only going on what he told me, and it did look a decent camera - but i know nothing.

Simon King was on telly last night having a camera fixed that he claimed cost £30k and on the telly as well, bloody liar i'm ging to write to Ofcom.

out of interest i just did a not very thtorough search of ebay and the most exspenive camera on there (35mm) was around £43k and the most exspensive digital around £8k. But they might have included a free Bently and a Bolex watch for all i know as i didnt look any further.

But your right i didn't find any digital ones costing £15k

late additon to my post, these are pretty pricey, the best part of £9k plus vat!

http://www.rapidgroup.net/products/h...lad_cfv39.html

[lacroupade]

Originally Posted by PLANK

Well, i'm only going on what he told me, and it did look a decent camera - but i know nothing.

Simon King was on telly last night having a camera fixed that he claimed cost £30k and on the telly as well, bloody liar i'm ging to write to Ofcom.

out of interest i just did a not very thtorough search of ebay and the most exspenive camera on there (35mm) was around £43k and the most exspensive digital around £8k. But they might have included a free Bently and a Bolex watch for all i know as i didnt look any further.

But your right i didn't find any digital ones costing £15k

late additon to my post, these are pretty pricey, the best part of £9k plus vat!

http://www.rapidgroup.net/products/h...lad_cfv39.html

Aha! Simon King was almost certainly telling the truth.....it is possible to poay that sort of money for a seriously top end camera but he isn't a local rag photographer is he, he's a well-known nature snapper and broadcaster...and the link you posted is a medium/large format Hasselblad as used by serious portrait/landscape/nature/commercial photographers....Its much more unwieldy than a 35mm and not the sort of thing a paper photographer ever uses, and its in a very different quality bracket, both construction and output.

don't believe anything you hear and only half of what you see.....!

[(RIP) PLANK]

Originally Posted by lacroupade

don't believe anything you hear and only half of what you see.....!

that's why i googled before bleiveing you

I remeber his face and the day he came, remember when our goat got stolen and i posted it on here? http://www.nissan4x4ownersclub.com/f...highlight=goat

it was just before Christmas 09 when he came, and to think I thought he had an honest face - I thought photographers weree decent upstanding citizens, who never lied, or got involved in high speed chses with Mercedes cars - my illusions are shattered.

[lacroupade]

Originally Posted by PLANK

that's why i googled before bleiveing you

I remeber his face and the day he came, remember when our goat got stolen and i posted it on here? http://www.nissan4x4ownersclub.com/f...highlight=goat

it was just before Christmas 09 when he came, and to think I thought he had an honest face - I thought photographers weree decent upstanding citizens, who never lied, or got involved in high speed chses with Mercedes cars - my illusions are shattered.

how could we forget the goat! I mean what else do we pay our tenners for - bugger all to do with cars!!!