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Mitch Alland
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Ray, you must be a fortune teller because when I started this thread I was only musing about how good this equipment might be. But yesterday I went to a camera store and looked at the D300 and the three lenses and found the technology dazzlinG: the fast and accurate autofocus, the responsiveness with no discernible shutter lag, the brightness of the 100% viewfinder, the well-dampened mirror slap and the relatively quiet, low-pitched shutter sound — not to speak of how well the controls are laid out. The other thing that happened yesterday is that my business trip to Namibia was confirmed and departure accelerated for Friday midnight. My wife will join me and we'll have some eight days in game parks; and that is why I'll get the 70-200, a lens that I would not normally buy because I don't really like to shoot at more than 50mm EFOV. But, from what you say, now I have to live up to taking good pictures with this equipment......Those 3 zooms would serve you very well to cover everything that you might want to do...I look forward to seeing what impact a D300 and the new Nikon glass has on your style...
The only regret I have is that the native aspect ratio is 3:2 — that vestige of 35mm film — while I've gotten to like to compose in the 4:3 format. I looked briefly at the Olympus E3, but simply don't have the time to explore this. I suppose if I really like 4:3 I can crop to that, but it would be nice to be able to see it in the camera.
On the Zeiss 28ZF: this sounds interesting but I simply do not have time to look into this before my departure on Friday night.
—Mitch/Bangkok
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