I don't know why this didn't dawn on me before tonight, but consider this... The Nikon D3 has a "DX" mode so you can use all of your existing DX lenses on the new camera. If you attach a DX lens, it just crops down to 5 MP to allow for the crop. If you WANT to, though, you can select the DX mode while using a non-DX lens and the camera will still activate this mode.
Why is this cool? You get the 1.5X magnification factor. Suppose you have a 400 mm lens... You can select DX and all of the sudden, you have a 600 mm lens. Yeah, I know that it's the SLR equivalent of "digital zoom," but we are dealing with a 36x24 mm sensor here - not a teeny point and shoot sensor. You end up with a very useable 5.1 MP image at the cropped zoom and that's not bad.
We are all accustomed to this "feature" in our DX sensor (or Canon 1.6X) cameras, but now it is a useful feature in the D3.
Can you do this with a Canon 5D? It would be a very useful feature, in my opinion...
2007-12-22
15:36:29
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