My wife is a photographer and has had it with Film. She has a very expensive Mamiya AFD Medium Format Camera, a Nikon F5 35 mm and a Good Digital Camera. She produces with the Digital Camera but she says she's had it. Will a High megapixel Camera work. What is the best High megapixel Camera. Well I would say for her to stick with Nikon since she has an F5, because some of those lenses will fit on a newer digital Nikon. But there are also Nikon DX lenses because of the cropping of the chip inside and a 1.5x magnification with any lens. With wide angle lense you really lose a lot that is why they make 12-24mm lenses (and wider) to compensate for this problem. Example a 50mm lens is really a 75mm.
If she is a pro then she wants to look at the Nikon D200 10.2 mb around $1500 or go to the top with the Nikon D2Xs 12.4 mb but that will be about $4000. I shoot on both and like them both but other than a couple of special features the Nikon D200 is a good choice as a pro camera for the price.
Some of he flashes should work also but she may want to up-grade to at least one that is a "DX" model made for digital from Nikon. I still shoot using a SB-28dx but also have a SB-800 in my bag. I shoot in manual mode even on the flash so all the extra bells and whistles and the price tag on an SB800 if you know what you are doing you will not need it.
I hope this helps,
Kevin "It all depends on the eye of the photographer". The camera is just a tool, both digital and film. High MP digital cameras is comparable if not much better than film. It's also easier to manipulate than film. Digital camera technology improves year after year. The higher the megapixels the better quality picture you'll get. Some manufacturers have cameras that go up to 12 megapixels. If you take pics at that high of a setting, the file size of the picture will be pretty big, but when you zoom in, you won't lose much quality. I would suggest going to Amazon.com to look up some digital cameras...be sure to read the user reviews. Most of the time, those reviews are very helpful. Digital is a computerized rendering or best guess of an object. Film uses Light/Shade the stuff that is real.
You can never buy enough software upgrades for that next digital camera, and soon as it is said to be the best, better comes out.
After all the 5k Mega Pixels sell, then some company will 'announce' that the new 1 TeraPixel! Camera. and the cows line up for grain as the people line up at the registers. Well your asking a number of questions so I'll do the easy one first...Best camera system
to me that would be the Hasselblad H3D Full-Frame, 48mm DSLR... They come in three flavors H3D-22 22 Mpixels (4080 x 5440 pixels) H3D-31 31 Mpixels (4872 鈥?6496 pixels) and lastly the H3D-39 39 Mpixels (5412 鈥?7212 pixels)
theres a rumor going around there working on a H3D 64?
Before you rush out to order one...were talking about a $25,000.00 dollar camera!
When you ask which is better Digital of film well that depends of what side of the craft your on...Art or production? in other words is she like a wedding photographer, News journalist...or does she make pretty pictures to hang in a gallery?
If your talking about the production side then go Digital all the way, faster easier store many more images do in camera editing its cheaper to do production work that way too!
But if were talking Art! well Digital has a way to go before it can catch up to the rich colors and very high resolution of film. In my case I still use a 4X5 view camera for that stuff...
as for production work I like every one I know just don't have 25 grand to spend on a new camera so I bought a digital back for my 500 CM and that works just fine for me...your wife can order a digital back for her Mamiya...there not cheap... If your wife "has had it" with film, then you've answered your own question!
Digital is great, you will like the quality of today's systems.
As for the best type, it's totally up to your budget. If she really wants to stick with MF, then do it. If 35mm is an option, then Nikon and Canon are the most popular, and I think Canon is used by more pros. Canon has a full frame sensor (on some models) Nikon uses cropped frame (1.6x). Canon also has better low-light capability, if that helps.
Also consider what you're actually photographing.
Assume you'll print at 300 dpi (for photos that you look at from a close viewing distance), and think about how big you'll print.
If 16 megapixels is enough for you, look at the Canon 1Ds MkII. (35mm format)
If you need more, you could wait for the next gen high-res Canon system (likely to come out within a year), or look for MF system.
Your initial cost is very high with digital, but of course you don't have film and developing fees. I don't think she'll even come close to the results of her Mamiya 645AF with anything short of one a Canon 1Ds MKII or one of the various(pricey) MF-based digitals.
Unless there's some overly compelling reason that she has to switch to digital, I'd say keep using what she has, which is some of the finest film equipment available. | 