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adorski wrote:
sorry guys but I can't help myself but to rant here
Ador, you're a good friend of mine on these forums, so I can't help but give you a ribbing here. This is an old rant of yours that I've seen elsewhere... here, in fact... and while I appreciate your enthusiasm, do you really think that any of this enumeration is meaningful?
why is it that CSI uses Nikon Digital instead of other Brand?
you mean the TV show? uh, perhaps product placement has something to do with it...
But forensic scientists use Nikon for one reason that's entirely irrelevant to 99.999% of all Nikon posts in the internet: Nikon makes a quartz lens that transmits UV light, which makes it useful for photographing subcutaneous bruises (among other things). This lens can be yours for a mere $3000. THAT is why actual forensic scientists use Nikon.
Why do they use Nikon on the show CSI? Beats me. Do you need me to enumerate the scientific liberties they take on CSI to challenge how representative it is of real forensics?
why is it that the US Goverment uses Nikon Digital instead of other Brand?
Well, the US Government also uses Halliburton, so go figure.
also NASA used to bring Hassleblad out of this earth and I wonder why they choose Nikon to bring with them on ISS
A good friend of my wife works for JPL and has been involved in the design of the mars rovers (and is one of the project managers of the 2009 rover). I can find out if the rovers are carrying around D70s, as opposed to custom optics for scientific applications (on another planet). Point being, who cares what the astronauts are carrying around for their snapshots. DSLRs are not exactly scientific instruments used by NASA.
for the record 62 out of 82 pulitzer Price winning photograph taken from 1963 to 2004 have been captured by world class photographer using Nikon Cameras, That's more than 75% and exceeeds the total for all other brands combined
Take a look at the Pulitzer Prize-winning photos. They win the prizes because they capture extraordinary and historic moments. It is a prize given for the eye of the photographer, not for the camera. Historically Nikon was the dominant 35mm camera, and that is why those photos were shot with Nikons.
Also most of National Geographic Photographer and PhotoJournalist Photographer Prefer to shoot Nikon I don't know why? Must be that piece of glass...
And you get that from where? Lots of NG photographers use medium format. Lots use Canon.
IMHO I think Nikon Focuses in their fine Optics while the other brand focuses on the printer and copier machine...
I'll grant Nikon the 17-35 is better than the comparable lens from Canon (though we'll see how the new 16-35 does). And Nikon has that quartz UV-transmitting lens. Other than that, I'd defy you to show a single Nikon lens that doesn't have a Canon correlate of comparable quality (if not superior in some cases).
By the way, Nikon and Canon are hardly the only players in fine optics. There are a few names out there like Zeiss, Leica, Schneider, Rodenstock, Zuiko, Pentax, Fuji, and Mamiya that have a handful of world class, exceptional lenses themselves...
Go Nikon Go 
Exactly... thanks for the fine reading, Ador.
BTW get rid of your 20D and 10D so you can get a real PRO Body like MARK III that you were very proud of 
I'm proud of my pictures, not my camera equipment (including my Nikkor 120 f/5.6 large format macro lens).
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Well, you've got me on that one -- I'm not aware of something in that size in the Canon lineup. I'd love to see a picture of that puppy -- the rear lens element would have to be more than 8 inches in diameter.
(Nice one Avi 
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