You would receive much better responses if you can provide some background info about your photography, such as:
- what equipment are you using now?
- besides landscape, what have you been shooting, and for how long?
- have you been selling your work, and for how long?
- who do you think your landscape customers will be, and at what price point?
- will the sales of your landscape work be your primary income?
Without these info, responses can be completely out of context.
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First, Phillipe and Mike, thanks for your responses...slowly helping me to have a clear picture of what I need to consider...
Ok, Chris...here's my story...
Equipment : Canon D60 and a Fuji F30...only one lens for the Canon, a 20-35...I have three older Nikon lenses from my film days...back then I was shooting an F3...oh, I started with a Mamiya Sekor (a DSX 1000 35mm) with a 50mm lens in school (1975)
What I've been shooting : Mostly street photography, but some landscape, some portrait stuff for about 35 years with periods where I didn't do any shooting and periods when I couldn't put the damn camera down...
Selling my work : I have used some of my photos for book covers over the years,...I'm a graphic designer...most of my time in publishing/books as designer or art director...i have sold some of my photos via jupiterimages and nonstock...
landscape customers and price point : no idea...they'll be through jupiterimages and price will be dependant on usage...
primary income : no, I don't think so, but I'm not sure what to expect...I'd be happy if it did become primary income...
Briefly : jupiterimages wants more images from me...they won't accept images from a D60. They want minimum 11mp because they rez up images to like 60mb...they told me a Canon 5D is fine, any of the Canon 1 series and the Nikon D2X(s)...
I'll have to wait to see if they'll take images from a Nikon D300...I'm leaning that way, if the image quality is in the Canon 5D neighborhood, because I already have three older, good Nikon lenses from my film days that would be compatible and I'd add one or two high quality lenses to that...if not I'll buy the Canon offering with a couple of lenses...
I don't want the Canon 1 body or the Nikon D body because of size and weight...I like street shooting and can't see lugging one of those tanks around all day...
Living in the south of France I want to take advantage of the wonderful countryside and offer jupiterimages some landscape images...hopefully with just enough 'difference' or 'personality' to make them acceptable...I mean they must already have more landscape shots than they know what to do with...and I'd guess great quality too...
cityscapes would be part of what I offer them as well,...
I've never shot with polarizers or nd filters and so my questions...I've seen how they enhance landscape, beach images and like the look/feel so want to try for myself...
I'm working with a budget so I'm trying to carefully plan what I want, what I need, what I can afford, all with the goal of buying in March or April of 2008.
I'm secretly hoping that Canon offers an upgraded 5D at PMA so my decision is a little easier...I just like the files I've seen from that camera and would assume a new version would be at least as good or better...No idea what to expect from the D300 and noise/low light is important to me...I don't use flash,...i prefer available light...that's why, despite my nikon lenses, i've been leaning toward Canon...
ok...sorry to go on...any other questions, I'll be happy to respond...in the end I want great image quality, a kit that's flexible, and one that won't break my bank...I'm wanting to start out slow, small, but keep the quality as good as I can and add as I go...bang for buck important...
Thanks for the help Chris...
M