Re: talk me out of it

[Herschel <herschel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I already have the D3 and  my wife, Anna, recently bought the D700 for her wedding/portrait work and it is indeed a great tool. But the D3X allows me to compete (Megapixel-wise) with the other commercial shooter here who's using a 1Ds Mk  III.

The medium format gear I have (Mamiya) is too slow for modern "people" shots. The images just feel to static even though the tonality and sharpness are wonderful and the shallower DOF (Due to bigger CCD) is glorious...

I have a shoot on Sunday for a telecoms company to be used on billboards  (Outdoor campaign)  It's for an ad agency that my opposition does a lot of work for and he's shooting 20+ MP on the Canon.

It's a shot of a man throwing a child up in the air and catching him... NO-way can I shoot this on the Mamiya. I'll have to shoot on the D3 and -quietly- up-scale it to 25 Megapixels... 2% at a time...I think I'm going to pass on the D3x until such time as I actually lose a job because the client says  "Size matters and this is too small"

herschel

mlent@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Why don't you get the D700? It's almost identicle to the D3x in every way but price. This way, you'll be AHEAD of the Jonese because you're smart enough to get the good gear, but at half the price.

 

Cordially,

 

Mark Lent

 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Herschel" <herschel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students" <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 6, 2009 12:53:07 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: talk me out of it

I am about to spend my life savings and my children's inheritance on a
Nikon D3X. Just to keep up with the Jones's who are in opposition to me
here.

I have a Mamiya ZD back on a 645AF but it's way too slow for me when it
comes to shooting people. Also I don't have a range of lenses for the
Mamiya.

I want something that will recycle as fast as the studio flash packs so
I can shoot around 1-1.5 fps for about four or five frames ...at least
plus I want to do interiors etc.,

I just can't justify the price of a new Hasselblad and the new ZD back,
which is apparently a little faster, is also $7500.

Actually I can't really justify the day which
is what I charge now, it would take 8 full days of shooting... in a bad
month that could be 2 months of work, to pay for it -  In any case most
of those jobs could easily be done with the D3 I already have.

Should I be sneaky and just Up-res the D3 images to 25MP?

Please give me some sensible reasons to not buy this thing which calls
me from the depths of B'nH and whispers my name...

Herschel