Consider sticking with your Hassie and scanning negs with a good scanner.
You might like this method of going digital. If you like digital after that,
I hope you'll consider Canon before you commit to a Nikon.
"Gregory Blank" wrote in message
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In article .com,
"tangent" wrote:

Greg, you're a sharp man.
I was going to swap from Nikon to Canon because they were leading the
digital race, but to sell all of my favourite lenses and find new ones
when 6 months later....who knows?
Meanwhile I pay the mortgage with 6x4.5 Velvia. I wish it was 6x7. (my
6x6 Bronica EC is ready for the bin) but I bought the camera cheap from
a starving photographer, there's plenty of them about.

By nature I think we photographers like new gadgets, we also second guess
ourselves a lot in trying to decide what equipment will make us great or
at least known. I remember an article a while back that said in essence,
would you rather buy a brand new camera that might take up to 5 years
to pay for or go someplace great and stay a week each year of those 5
years creating the very images that "WILL" make you known.

Mind you I am not trying to influence your choice, but before consider
move from shooting MF completely there would have to be a $3k digital
SLR able to shoot 14MP at least and it should be full featured and
lighter than my Bronica 6x6. Its a little ways off. But I don't know
whether I would get rid of paid for equipment,....depends on whether I
could sell it at a good enough price I guess.

Thats not to say you can't buy something like a D70 and use those lenses.

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