A humorous rant about the Nikon D3X

There's something of a cottage industry on the Internet of making parodies through artful subtitles of Der Untergang, a movie about the last throes of the Third Reich. And now there's one that takes on Nikon's D3X, the company's new $8,000, 24.5-megapixel SLR.

The subtitles depict Adolf Hitler coming to terms with the arrival of Sony's Alpha A900. One amusing moment comes when a minion listening to Hitler's rant comforts a weeping colleague, "There, there, I hear he shoots only JPEG." (In case the humor is lost on you, that's a jab at pixel-peeping camera snobs such as myself who prefer to shoot raw images.)

According to The Online Photographer, where I spotted the video Tuesday, the parody is by Nikon D3 photographer Samuel Vert.

[Zeeshan47]

bahahahaha
bloody brilliant!

[ozarktroutfisher]

That is absolutely hilarious!!!! You really need to have spent time on the D3 forum of dpreview.com the first few days after the D3x was announced to fully aprreciate it though.

[deepcloud]

"pixel-peeping camera snobs such as myself"

I really hope geeks of the world, such as yourself, lose interest in photography ASAP. Thank god "painting" is still unpolluted by trend following nerds....

[shuttermonkey33]

Are you suggesting that professional photographers shoot jpg or that raw is a trend? You're wrong about either. Also, I'd bet you'd be hard pressed to explain how the act of geeks shooting hurts your life in any way. Actually, the more money that's in the photo industry, the better the products and services related to photography will be. All you have to do is quit resenting those whose acumen for science relegates their interest in the arts in a secondary role. I'm sure going through life as a bitter old artist won't help anything but .... hmmmn....oh, your artistic angst. Ahh, that's what this was about.

[sherbisness]

Sorry, but i will never find the rantings of hitler humerous. Even when the subject is changed, and it is only an actor. I have seen this video on youtube, and was very surprised to see it on cnet. Personally, I feel in my guts that this was a bad decision, in bad taste. I know that others will feel differently, but I find this seriously disturbing.