After all, 16Mp was what Canon initially used at their "high end" value -- and with good reason!
My feeling: if you cannot get a ROI on your investment you should hold off.
M
-----Original Message-----
From: Herschel [mailto:herschel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, March 6, 2009 01:53 AM
To: 'List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students'
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 D3X and at around $1000 a 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
