[icu400]

eh, i kinda ignored the nikon 200d question, because I cannot stand to use nikon cameras. I am, and forever will be, a canon man!
And yeah I don't mind raw, but at work we never use it because jpeg's work fine for our publications, and we have only so much server space to split between the dozen photographers bringing in a few assignments a week of 100-400 pictures each (most are about 100, but if i'm shooting a football/baseball game I'll snap 400 easily, and that will just be the ones that I don't delete 5 seconds after I take them when I realize they sucked or I missed something that I was aiming for). They just take up too much space and don't always provide vastly superior results, especially if you get the exposure pretty much dead on.

[Nobody]

"i kinda ignored the nikon 200d question, because I cannot stand to use nikon cameras. I am, and forever will be, a canon man!"
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I used to use Canon up until the last of F1 but at that time I also had Nikon F3s. I liked some of Canon's lenses better, for example their 85mm f 1.2L was nice. By the time halfway decent digital cameras came along, I had almost completely switched to Nikons. I was one of those who felt that digital cameras have a long way to go before they catch up with good film camers. I suppose, it does take a very careful look through a loupe at a properly exposed 4x5 slide film on a light box to feel that way. But then improvements in digital world happen on an exponential scale and there are some good cameras out there today. I have still not bought a digital camera for semi-serious work; if I do buy a Nikon D200, it would be the first one. Hence, the question... I have read about it a little and most things are positive. One of these days, if I get bitten by the buy-bug, I'll have to go to a store and play with it. /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

[icu400]

Yeah, it certainly is dependant on which lens system you go with. I have 3 canon bodies and lenses to go with them (all film bodies though). The principle thing that made me fall in love with digital isn't so much the quality, because film is just as good at that, its everything you can do with digital, especially on the mac

[Nobody]

Well, after you have created a digital file from a 4x5 slide off a drum scanner (usually around 200MB or larger), wouldn't there be so much more you could do!
I know what you mean, convenience is hard to beat and if a little thought is added before snapping the shot, you can do quite nicely even without having to worry about digital tweaking... which is my preferred way but I'm not purist enough to shun digital help altogether.

[icu400]

Most of my best digital shots, especially those of sports, I haven't done anything to at all. That certainly is the benefit of learning on film: if you treat every shot like it counts, then things just turn out better (especially if you use the mentality that you only have 24 pictures you can take, instead of a few hundred).
And i've never used, or even seen, a drum scanner, rofl.