It’s actually hard for me to believe how much mental energy I’ve devoted to deciding whether or not to capture images with the Nikon P5000 compact digital. On the one hand I can have it everywhere, all the time. On the other hand, the image quality just doesn’t compare to either the Leica / chromogenic BW film system or the Nikon D300. On the other hand, I’m less serious with the P5000. I don’t evaluate exposure or work subjects the way I do with the serious cameras.
When issues are so undecidable, I tend to believe that the goals are unclear. These various image capture systems result in entirely different results for which I have not set relative values. The single dimension that they vary on is portability, Decision theory would dictate that I chose based on that dimension and accept the varied results as the outcome of deciding on the basis of whether I can carry the kit.
Hello from Noisy reader #10,
Replace the P5000 with a RAW shooter and you will be more satisfied with the output.
When you need to be casual, shooting a little camera is fine but when you process the files they should be RAW.
Looking forward to future posts, your site is an interesting read.