Ex1r or 7d

That was my first reaction too, but the later pictures have made it look much better... there's a picture of a guy holding it, where it looks a lot better than it did in that slide presentation!
 
Oh yeah, the closeup of the guy holding it makes it all make sense....it's smaller than a 5D mk II with battery grip! Ok maybe not that small...but small.
 
With 10k I would get and EX1 and a DSLR all you need is a nifty fifty, a finder and an extra battery. That should get you started.
 
This is an absolute nobrainer:
I'd buy my excellent condition ex1 with 5 cards, a brevis, and an extra battery for 6k, a 7D for 1.5k, and then spend a grand on a nice set of nikon lenses. Then, with the remaining 1.5 k, I'd take my significant other out for dinner, and then save up another 1.5k for a nanoflash.

http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?t=193908

the end.
 
Barry_Green said:
I've agreed with a lot of what Robert's said before, but I think that last post is going quite a bit too far. I've seen Philip Bloom's stuff projected on a reasonably large screen and -- when shot properly for a DSLR -- it can look stunningly good. Thing is, you have to know how to shoot for a DSLR.

But yes, there are some shots that just aren't going to work well. Although I will say this -- shooting that city street at f/11 is going to look better than shooting it at f/5.6! At least at f/11 you'll get some softening of the image due to diffraction, which will minimize some of the outrageous aliasing that you'd get at f/5.6.

For doc work, I'd definitely suggest the EX over the 7D. But yeah, Ian says get both, and I agree. Use the 550D for what it excels at (shallow DOF for stuff like interviews) and use the EX for the main workhorse camera.
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It doesn't look stunning at all when re compressed for broadcast - which is why most networks have banned it. I also think the number of shots Phil probably throws out might be a significant pause for thought. There is no telling when moire might rear its ugly head - you need to think: can I risk one of my interviews being unusable because he/she wore the wrong fabric?
 
Most of the complaints about these DSLRs will likely be addressed in subsequent versions. I suspect we'll be seeing better codecs, sharper images, and less aliasing/rolling shutter before too long. Therefore investing in a system where you can then swap out bodies later is not a terrible idea. My advice if you decide to go the DSLR route is to invest in manual Nikon primes. Nikon has a long flange distance which means that its lenses can be used on many other systems (EOS, m4/3, cinema cameras, etc.) I am currently shooting on m4/3 and hopefully will be getting a GH2 and/or a an AF100 at some point. I have some m4/3 lenses but also lots of Nikon mount stuff, so if I ever decided to go to the 5D mk III, etc, I could.
 
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