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Originally Posted by KuroiSport
Thanks. You have some good ones too. I just went to the store to test out a 5D side by side with my XT. Even in the store with crappy florescent lighting the color, contrast and sharpness of the 5D blew the XT away. No need to 'pixel peep' to see the difference either. Not to mention the awesome view finder in the 5D. Think I'm going to make the jump soon, especially moving to Hawaii. Can't miss those sunsets!
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Moving to Hawaii? I'm jealous! The funny thing was that what sparked me to even look at dSLRs was looking at old pics of Hawaii taken with a Coolpix 950. I saw banding and posterization (sp?) and was disappointed with the limitation of the camera. At the time (Oct 2004), I didn't follow anything with cameras and went on steve's digicam site to see what was up and I stumbled upon the Canon 20D review. Before that, my memory of dSLRs was drooling over the Nikon D1 from years long past so I was quite surprised that the technology had become "affordable." But it's an addictive habit...I quickly got L lens fever and my lens ensemble consists of 16-35 f/2.8, 24-70 f/2.8, 70-200 f/2.8 IS, 100-400, 85 f/1.2, 28 f/1.8 and 85 f/1.8 (purchased before the 1.2). But there weren't a lot of keepers with the 20D and some have said that the AF isn't that good. Of course, the 1D series has the best (as one would expect), but the 5D was also supposed to be up there. Hence me going to the Botanical Gardens to test the gear out. I have a picture of that same girl with the 85 f/1.2 shot wide open and her hair is razor sharp. I could never do that with the 20D.
Then there are also pics like this from Boston:
http://www.pbase.com/ekosan/image/58516952/original
I also picked up a 9.2 megapixel LCD the other day. I remember reading about this monitor years ago when it was $10,000. I was interested in the Apple 30" display and did some research with using it with a PC and stumbled across a post that was something along the line of, "If you want the best, check out the Viewsonic VP2290b." I did a quick check on pricegrabber and saw that refurb'ed units generally sold for $6000 through retailers, but the thing that caught my eye was it showed for $900 through Viewsonic themselves! I thought, "What the heck?," and placed an order. $985 shipped. After I received it, Viewsonic must have realized it was an error and now that same refurb'ed monitor sells for $5900 on their website.
It's kind of nice opening an old 20D picture at full res and still having an inch of empty space to the left and right of the picture
