Veronica Mars Fans

I know that the question of "What camera does Veronica use?" has been raised before, and given that I am an extreme photography junkie, and thus notice these things, I thought I'd bring this up:

Her camera has changed. Again.

In the series opener, judging from the time it was filmed and what I can see of the body, she's using a Nikon D2H with a big ol' zoom lens -- someone said the 70-200 f/2.8 VR, but I don't remember off-hand. This is a big, professional camera, and a very expensive setup, costing close to $5K at the time it was filmed.

After that, it seems, someone figured out that non-09'er Veronica probably couldn't afford that setup AND the 15-inch PowerBook, so she switched to the Nikon 8800, a point-and-shoot that still has a lot of great features. In my mind, I like to think that the first camera is owned by the office, and the second one is hers, absolving continuity errors.

Well, in the opening sequence for the new season, she is clearly using the ubiquitous Nikon D70 with what I'm almost positive is the cheaper, but still bad-ass, 80-200 f/2.8D. During the episode she was all over that D70, so I guess she's moved up in the world with her personal camera. I'm not sure about the lens she was using during the ep, but it looked like a 17-35 f/2.8.

I'm not sure if Nikon is paying for all this, but they should. It could just be that the glorious cinematographer uses Nikon digital cameras to set up his equipment, so he has a bunch of them laying around the set.

If none of this held any value to you, at least that last link goes to a very cool feature discussing how the cinematographer captures the look of the show, including the "streaky" flash-backs.