deepbluejh wrote:
I could write a myriad of witty, sarcastic, snarky remarks here, but I won't. Instead I'll give you an honest answer that is short and to the point.
Having shot Nikon film for years, moving to Canon around 2003 was a painful experience. But the sensors performance with Nikon was pretty poor at the time, so I bought into the canon system. I fought with AF performance the whole time. Then the d300/d3 brought me back to Nikon again in 2008/9. It was like old times and while the af was not perfect, I made it work so much better than I could make the canon system work.
My (sort of) conclusion is they both work well when you are tuned to that systems methodology. I personally find the 75-85% usable shots I could get with canon, were improved to better than 95% when I got back to Nikon.
I converted to Canon at the beginning of this year, because Nikon did not release a Pro-body 24MP camera, aka, D700 replacement. I tried D600 and it was not what I need. 5D3 is what I need, not perfectly, but close.
The conversion was tough but I am happy with what I have now. Though there are few things Nikon still does a lot better such as TTL fill-light control, AF to manual conversion and button operation, etc. But I will be stuck with Canon for the next 2-3 years until the real D700 replacement comes out.
