Over at Luminous-Landscape.com, Mike Johnston explains why he’s more excited about Sony’s new 8-megapixel F-828 (pictured at right) rather than the new camera that has everyone’s tongues wagging, Canon’s new digital SLR, the EOS 300D, which is known as the EOS Digital Rebel here in the States:
The 300D, to me, is a mass-market 10D, and what’s a 10D? A digital 10S. So, okay. (Cover your mouth when you yawn like that.) The F-505-707-717-828 is a whole different experience. It requires a totally different manner of handling — that I liked. Its “preview” LCD can be used as a finder — which I liked. Its optical image quality survived the translation to pixels — which I liked. And (I can’t get over this) it could photograph in the dark. It’s just a matter of taste, I know. But the idea of an 8-mp Sony F, with a lens that goes down to 28mm equivalent (the 38mm-equivalent wide end of the F-707 was, for me, that camera’s main weakness), plus all the advantages of the F-717’s originality, plus all the incremental improvements Sony’s made since the antediluvian days of the ancient F-505, plus a preview LCD, and so on, and so forth — well, that makes my mouth water.
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