The Eyes
What I mean by asking how fast can you shoot, is not how fast you can get the camera up to your eye and your finger on the shutter.
What I mean is how fast can the camera shoot?
This is very important because if you have to wait for the camera then you cannot shoot fast.
I took this shot of the gold man a couple of weeks ago with my carry-around camera.
It is a Nikon D60 with a Nikon 35mm f1.8 AF-s lens.
I am looking to change it because I want a camera that will shoot video. I am torn between various cameras and the micro four-thirds cameras are one option.
I don’t really want to upgrade to a Nikon D90 because my main camera is a Nikon D700, and that makes the decision over which camera to take on ‘not quite carry-around but not quite going out to shoot for sure’ excursions all the more difficult.
I may go for the Nikon D5000.
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For the shot of the gold man I had my camera bag over my shoulder. It is a Domke F6, so there is just a flap over the bag – lift the flap and you can pull the camera straight out.
The gold man was walking towards me. I focused – not clever focus tracking – just focused with the center focus point.
And clicked.
It’s not perfect, but it is sharp enough bearing in mind that the crops you are seeing her have no sharpening at all in Photoshop or Adobe Camera RAW.
The reason I am mentioning this is that today I tried a few shots with an Olympus E-P1 with the 17mm pancake lens. It is very pocketable and light – but compared to the D60 it took long enough to focus that I couldn’t shoot what I wanted. I lined the camera up (it had an optical viewfinder attached) and tried to take a few shots of a person getting out of a car.
The bottom line is that the E-P1 is not for me.
Nikon D60 – No Sharpening – Straight From RAW
Gold Man
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Nice thought – I’ll look into it.
Mine too.
I have owned a Nikon for years, nothing special, but I thought it was better than my wife’s Olympus. Just my opinion, though. Easier to use.
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I had a Nikon D70 and only regretted upgrading to a D200 when I saw what another photographer had managed to squeeze out of the older model.
I have been using a Nikon D60 for almost 4 years now. And I must say it never fails me when it comes to focusing. Nikon D60 is pretty reliable.
I don’t have any plan of disposing my D60 but I would love to have a D5000 just to have a second body, but as far as I can see with the reviews, I’m gonna have the D5000 as my main camera and sit my D60 as a back-up.
I own an Olympus EP1 and it really fits me. It looks like an old-school camera but the pictures shot from it have outstanding quality, however, it doesn’t suit photographers who wants a quick shot.
And it’s very comfortable to carry. But I also want to try Nikon.
Thanks for a quick review on EP1 and other cameras.
I guess for some kinds of photography, the EP-1 is fine. It just doesn’t suit me. I have lost many shots because I was moving around to get to the best place to take the shot and meanwhile the subject has gone! So I don’t want to make my problems worse by having a camera that doesn’t keep up with me.