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1. Comment - Nikon to Move Away from Film Cameras

   (Jan 12, 2006 - 10:51 PM)

   Currently Nikon is producing a 12, 10, three 6 and a high speed 4 mp and an updated version of one of the 6mp and an update of the 4 mp. the 12 mp flag ship is the D2X. Cannon is producing a 16 mp DSLR the EOS-1Ds Mark II There digital flag ship. I have one of the Nikon 6 mp DSLRs the D70 and a Nikon F5, the D70 uses the same auto focus and exposure system that’s in the F5. I shoot slide for my self and Kodak portra pro film for weddings. Would I like a D2X, I'd sell body parts for one, but when you factor in the 5k price tag (for the body only) compared to the $700 for a used F5 on eBay, and there’s a lot of them, I'll take the F5 and get a $500 Nikon film scanner with Kodak’s digital ICE-4, and 4000 dpi resolution or an effective 22mp. I'd be very disappointed in the loss of film camera lenses, Since the Nikon news release said they’d be keeping there high end film cameras the new last year F6 and the all manual FM10, I don't expect to see film lenses go away any time soon. File size has been kept under control by using a compressed RAW image format Nikon’s NEF, a 6mp image is 6meg in size, a 12mp image file should be around 12 or 13meg in file size. JPEG's would be smaller but image quality would suffer. a few years ago it was stated in a photography publication that a 32mp image would be required to be comparable to the high quality pro level 100 ISO 35mm films. And every thing I've said goes out the window when you move to a large format film...

2. Comment - Seagate Buys Maxtor for $1.9 Billion

   (Dec 22, 2005 - 11:07 PM)

   I've looked at a lot of posts, and need to point out that Maxtor’s enterprise class products have 5 years of warrantee coverage Atlas, MaXline, etc. The high end products have a 3 year and there is the Wal-Mart isle series- (CRAP) has a one year. Now explain to me why anyone with any computer common sense would even consider putting a retail unit in a machine is beyond me when you can get an enterprise class product for the same price. As for the merger, Seagate is taking control of Maxtor; Maxtor’s quality should in theory improve. A final point, any electronic device is only as reliable as its weakest component. A supplier has a bad run; the final product has a bad run. And I have to say I'm very happy with my Maxtor MaXline III enterprise class drives with a 5 year warrantee...