This is not a pitch (they ain’t giving me one), but you should watch this propaganda from Dremel, about their new 3D printer. Not cheap, but cheaper than some. And it’s from a company whose stuff I already own–my Dremel tool. Boy, could I make a lotta stuff with this puppy. Or I could buy that new Canon 6D camera I’m lusting for.
Joe, or you could draw up the stuff you want and pay someone to print it off for you.
Buy The 6D! You will never second guess the 6D.
I’d echo that. Try some prints from shapeways before sinking $K into a machine. It’s not as easy as it looks.
Yeah, you guys are probably right. The 6D will last a long time. In fact, I’m still using my 50D, which I love, even though it’s sent me the occasional Error 30 mesage, which means a rebuild is coming. I know, dump the old thing, but the 50 has a mostly metal body while its successors don’t. To keep the super happy I need to sell my Hasselblad, Rollei, earlier Canon digital and film cameras and one of my Nikon F2s (I’m keeping another just for old times sake). I want the 6D 'cause it’s a full-frame camera.
Sorry to digress.
Just saw in the news there’s a choco-print machine, Dark, milk chocolate and white…
Now we’re talkin’!
Love my 5D-MKII, full frame. Great camera. I have 4 Maymia RB67s I, would be willing to part with. Couple of 4x5 view cameras too. I wish that there was a way to shoot with the 5D and my 4x5 Schniders.
BTW it’s very hard to give away a split 70 package printer.
The 5D Mk III would be cool, but there’s a wee difference in price. What I also want is the 28-300-mm L-series zoom at $2,000 plus. I read that it covers a lot of ground but is very heavy, which I could live with. That lens and my 16-35 and I’d be covered.
I used to be into the SLR’s and such, but like the digital now. Smaller and lighter weight appeals to me. My old Canon Pro Shot is still doing okay. Like the viewfinder, can’t stand looking at the camera back to take a picture. Same with my iPhone, hard to hold.
Jerry, “Roger that.” I don’t like looking at the back of a camera or iPhone to take a picture. Can’t see the screen in daylight. Plus ya can’t get a firm grip on the camera by holding it in one hand and waving it around like a whatever. There’s a new generation/design of digital cameras that offer both a viewfinder (an electronic one, that gives you the same image as the screen on the back) and a rear screen. There’s no mirror, just the sensor, whose input you view as I just described. I bought one of those (a Fuji X100-S) and it is slick, but not cheap. Takes great pictures. Truth be told, I take way more snaps with my iPhone than with anything else. Too much information? 
I have a Fugi S5000 that I bought years ago. It has a screen and a viewfinder. I like the thing, but lately the pictures haven’t been as sharp as I would like them. I cleaned the lens real good, and the pictures are better, but I think it may be time for an upgrade.
David, I guess because mine is new and close to virgin (I take care of my gear) my X100-S images are pretty sharp. I blowed up that brick house I posted elsewhere on our site and them bricks looked dang sharp. BTW, that’s how I sometimes measure a brick prototype to determine its dimesnions. Having measured real buildings, I know that horizontally, eight bricks measure 68 inches, so by counting a whole bunch, dividing this and that, I can figure out how big a wall is. FYI, vertically, it’s eight bricks equals 23 inches, maybe 24 if ya wanta round things out. The reason I measured several bricks and not just one is ya gotta account for the spacing and all. Anyway, I love my Fuji for what it is–a great people photo camera and a nice travel camera but not the be all and end all of cameras. That’s why I’m still wed to my Canon.
David Maynard said:
I have a Fugi S5000 that I bought years ago. It has a screen and a viewfinder. I like the thing, but lately the pictures haven’t been as sharp as I would like them. I cleaned the lens real good, and the pictures are better, but I think it may be time for an upgrade.
Does that mean you make an appointment with your optometrist? 
Marc Horvitz said I needed a better camera for any articles. He took the pictures of my layout for the magazine. He was driving his daughter out to school and dropped by. Nice guy. I still don’t have a good camera. Easier to write up things for forums than magazines.
I like using my Canon Pro Shot SX40 you can do view finder or use the screen on the back which you can also rotate out to the side. The zoom is awesome also. Later RJD
Joe Rusz said:
The 5D Mk III would be cool, but there’s a wee difference in price. What I also want is the 28-300-mm L-series zoom at $2,000 plus. I read that it covers a lot of ground but is very heavy, which I could live with. That lens and my 16-35 and I’d be covered.
Definitely go with a full frame, whether it be the Canon or Nikon! No more cutting off the caboose because you saw it in the view finder and thought it was in the picture! (We got the Nikon D750.)
The Nikons and Canons are about the same price. While people always say the Canon lenses are cheaper, this is not so much the case as you get more lens for your money with the Canon, and there is a greater variety.
That is, you can pay about the same price for a Canon 80-200 as a Nikkor 80-200, but the Canon may have an F stop of 2.8 whereas the Nikkor at that price point may have an F stop of 4.0. You can get the Nikkor with the better F-stop, but then end up paying more than for the Canon lens. But if you’ve been shopping and know what a full frame camera is/can do, you probably already know this.
I will say don’t buy any of the four full frame contenders (two Canons or two Nikons) until you feel them in your hands. I was opting for the Canon, and have been a Canon man all the way back to the AE-1, until Linda and I went in to Samy’s and held the four cameras for a side-by-side comparison of the feel. The Nikon D750 felt the most natural in the hand and the buttons fall into place the best. The D750 also has a pull out/tilt LCD display that is nice for shooting trains at ground level.
Hans-Joerg Mueller said:
David Maynard said:
I have a Fugi S5000 that I bought years ago. It has a screen and a viewfinder. I like the thing, but lately the pictures haven’t been as sharp as I would like them. I cleaned the lens real good, and the pictures are better, but I think it may be time for an upgrade.
Does that mean you make an appointment with your optometrist?
Hans, I have been to my optometrist lately, and these new glasses are driving me buggy. I am not sure she can help my aged camera.
Todd, you’re wearing me out, dude. Come to the train show in Anaheim tomorrow and we can discuss the vagaries of Canon and Nikon cameras and lenses.
David, sometimes images from your old camera seem to lose their snap, sharpness or whatever. It may be real, or it could be imagined. When I was shooting happy snaps with my Canon digital point and shoot, a buddy showed up with a Panasonic (I think, 'cause it was years ago) and I envied his images so much I bought one of those. Then my cousin or someone seemed to get better shots with her whatever, so I jumped ship again. Then the iPhone 4S came along and the relative sharpness of its images and the convenience of having it with me all the time, plus being able to instantly send pix, made it my every day camera. The Fuji, great as it is, came about because I drank the Kool Aide served by the Strobist web site and Zack Arias (you’ll have to Google 'em to see who they are if ya don’t know) made me spend $$$ for the X100-S. Then there’s the Canon 6D. And so it goes.
I earn the money with my 5D, My pocket camera for carrying around is a Nikon S3600 ($110 Walmart). and snapshot pics with my iPhone 6.
Would I take my 5D in the cab when i’m firing 315? Not a chance in hell!! But the nikon I’ll sacrifice. which is one of the reasons to have it. Don’t have to worry about it.
Yeah, but Dave, if you wanted some really great shots of the cab and everything that goes on, a 16-35 on the 5D would take it all in, where the S3600, which probably has the equivalent of a 35 mm lens, not so much. “What’s a little soot,” says the guy who ruined his favorite winter jacket merely sitting in a gon behind a Cumbres loco going out and back from Antonito. Left that puppy in my rental car in Santa Fe, prolly a blessing.