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Digital For Travel?

If I had a dollar for every time I've been asked over the last couple of years about whether I've moved to digital yet, I'd be a rich man. The answer is 'no,' but the truth is that I'd very much like to, but only when the hardware is up to it for what I do, and is good enough the markets I supply. For a travel photographer, digital will be good when the quality is right. I'd love to see immediately if that sunset was the exposure I liked, right or "wrong" (a matter of personal taste). Professional video cameramen operate with an electronic viewfinder and judge exposure by experience, so expect to see this one day in high-end still cameras.

There was a brief flirtation with half-frame cameras back in the 1970s, and today history has repeated itself with their digital variants. Personally I like lenses to be as they should be, not doubling the focal length on a half-frame. New developments in chip technology mean that hardly a week goes by without some improvement. So the digital future is just over the horizon for me with more new cameras that are full frame; it's just a question of time before the price hits the area my pocket can stand.

OUT OF DATE?

So although I haven't even used digital I get asked about what to buy, and recently recommended to friends that they buy a compact Canon or Nikon. For them I suggested anything with 4 million + pixels should be good and future proof for a while hopefully; anything in the shops today could be out of date tomorrow. As an example, Canon's digital D60 pro SLR body has