Nikon D700

Well Nikon announced the D700 today. I'll get one, but for 3000 dollars, it'll have to wait a while.

I get asked two questions a lot.

1. What do you shoot with?
2. What's a good camera.

Well 1. I currently shoot with two Nikon cameras, the D300 and D200. Around the house I use a 28-70 2.8 AFS lens which costs upwards of 1500 dollars, but the pictures are spectacular and far better than the 150 dollar consumer grade lenses. At the Nascar tracks I typically carry a 70-200 2.8 AFS on the D300 around my neck, with the D200 on my right shoulder mounted with a 12-24 f4 AFS. I've found the gap to be not that useful. For qualifying, a race, or football I'll pull out the big gun - the 400 2.8 AFS, a 17 pound cannon, about 3 feet long that feels like 170 pounds after carrying it around for 3 hours. My entire photography gear collection is worth more than many nice cars.

2. Without going into photography theory, I'll just say two things. Megapixels are ridiculously overrated (most people don't need more than 3), and the physical size of the camera and lens does. That's why DSLR's and large lenses are so expensive. Big sensors and large glass is where it's at. Megapixels are largely a marketing ploy.