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I am very confused, what reasons are there to buy into Nikon and what reasons to buy into Canon.
Sum it up = Personal preference. (What suits you)
Promoted by = Brandsmanship (What manufacturers promise)
Accelerated by = Web based communication and forums (Opinions)
Membership = (Club Membership eg; belonging)
In this arena the main contenders of Nikon and Canon have both in their respective corner done a fine job of selling you on their respective products. Whether they delivered what they promised is a whole new thing when something goes wrong.
Brands promise everything from belonging to a special group of people, wearing the right baseball cap, t-shirt or proper neckstrap to association with the rich and famous who get big bucks and gifts for endorsementation...
There are fans on both sides and the webs ability as the great communicator of both correct and biased information is beyond anything we had in the old days. In the old days we read Shutterbug and a few magazines. Cameras were light tight boxes and the lenses were maybe six models in an entire line.
Today we have a whole different world and the decisions made (and rightly so since a lot of sheckels are involved) are more complex.
I guess I am just ridiculously picky.
No just cautious about how you spend your money, and unless you found a way to grow money for free (legally, not potted plants) and have to work for it, it's called being prudent. I call it smart.
Heres the picture:
Both cameras do a fine job in the hands of those who spend the time to learn all about them.
Many who just want to push a button find models in the lineup that satisfy them too but the end product THE PHOTOGRAPH or "image capture" is based on a little talent, luck, a good eye, situational awareness and eventually the completion of some form of training whether school, book or web based to get to the higher levels.
It's simple a good photographer with simple skills in reading a manual and knowing what the small print means can get great stuff with a Nikon, Canon or Pentax.
The beginner is at a disadvantage and the manufacturers know it. So we have the entry level models that do most of the tasking for you. Old school taught you aperture, shutter speeds. Today we PROGRAM with twelve different settings to achieve the correct balance of speed and aperture.
But it still boils down to speed and aperture for correct exposure.
WE have flash units with all kinds of integrated programming to talk to the camera. about as many modes and in the case of the Sb-800 a manual about as big as the D70 manual.
But it's still a regulated flash of light that comes out the front and if you set it wrong I don't care whether its a Canon 580EX or the SB-800, it's still wrong.
If that stuff was so good why do we sell Lumiquist, Sto-fen , Fongs Lightspheres, the Jacobs Joker ( My new gadget) and every kind of bracket under the sun.
Again a skilled photog can take a Vivitar 285 HV and do a perfect Wedding for example better than a gadget hound with all the toys. You have guys here doing it all day, I know I sell them battery packs and know what they use, but they know the secret of which brand is better for them ..the one that you work into, not the one you bought into.
I liked the idea of going to the camera store and trying both on for size. I like renting one of each for four hours and trying them really out. that will tell you which is best for you. Nikon guys will tell you Nikon is better and Canon guys will tell you Canon is better. Thats the brandsmanship part. Owner Loyalty...big buzz word in the marketing schemes.
We all want to be part of the bigger picture.We all passed that crossroad sooner or later. There really isn't a bad decision except for you allowing someone else to shape it with the abundance of bad information prejudiced by brandsmanship.
This is all "nothing new" In every brand, in almost every field the marketing and brandsmanship is the same. COLT vs.Smith and Wesson, Piper ( low wing) vs. Cessna (high wing) Fosters vs. Budweiser, Ford vs Chevy..... we all have been at the crossroads......
Good luck on whatever you select, I 'd be spending my time getting every inch out of the Pentax and learning the game first.
Edited on Sep 06, 2005 at 03:05 PM
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