A brief bit of gear-geekery

First, I will be at PhotoPlus Expo on Thursday morning, trying out all the new gear for Amazon’s End User blog. I’m sure I’ll want to grab lunch somewhere away from the $8 hot dogs, so let me know if you’ll be there!

Secondly, I finally got around to digging out the credit card, and my studio will have a new team member for the very end of the season (I expect, with my luck, it will arrive right after my last big wedding for the year)

Yup, I’m moving to an all-massive camera line-up for 2010, and the usable 12,800 ISO of the Nikon D3s is calling to me. I was planning on buying another D3 anyway to supplement by badly beaten and scarred one, and I will be selling my (surprisingly in-good-shape) D700. I got the D700 so that I would have a more portable camera to take around with me, but these days my pocket camera is the Panasonic LX3, and the camera I actually take with me everywhere is the iPhone. My dSLRs are for workin’ these days, and so the esoteric advanced features of the D3 come in handy — the dual CF card slots alone are worth it to me, since I can back up every image I take, as I take them.

Oh, and you can definitely expect me to geek out over the movie mode, too, meaning lots more video content to come.