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 p.1 #14 · What made you upgrade the camera? | |
Pentacon F to Konica of some sort: auto aperture mode, built-in light metering (TTL), shutter working right without black streak on one side of negative… 
Konica to Canon A-1: name brand camera, multi exposure modes, motor drive, huge lens choice
Canon A-1 to Canon New F1: finally a pro-body, motor, exchangeable VF, rugged: I had arrived!
Hiatus (no photography)…
Canon F1 to Nikon 6006 or 8008 or something like that: Canon had changed lens mount while I slept, and its 50mm Macro was only 1:2 without extension tube. I was pissed at Canon, Nikon here I come (still very little photography, though…)
Nikon 6 or 8xxx or whatever to Fuji S2 Pro: I new I did not want to use silly chemicals and minutely controlled lab conditions to do my pics, even when there were no computers for individuals. Now the technology seemed good enough, and this cam was affordable, and available at local camera shop (helps to handle things one has never handled before!)
Fuji S2 Pro to Canon 20D: dark days of Nikon - the Fuji was too difficult to maintain batterywise, I always ran out in the field. Nikon's offerings were either dismal (D100? D70? don't recall which model, but long in tooth at the time I bought) or unaffordable (D2X). I never liked the 20D, it seemed cheap and simple, the LCD was pathetically small. Then Canon pissed me off again by releasing the 30D just a few months after I had already bought, with no real change but a bigger LCD!
20D to 1DIII: finally a pro camera again  happyness, no AF probs, but heavy and large and not quite FF. Great for sports, but a bit clumsy for general use.
Brief add-ons of 50D (disgust: why make this cripple cam, an essentially revamped 20D, when Nikon already had the D300 out for months?) sold quickly, brrr. 5DII - FF, but again CRIPPLED!!! a gimp of a camera, a 'special needs' product, needs special protection from elements due to no real weatherization, special manual focusing due to pathetic AF. (all the while looking with lust at Nikon D700 - real working camera, no more expensive than 5D Mk toy) sold again, added Pentax for travel and lightweight use, great little cam, but AF is too amateurish for serious action shooting, and high ISO is compromised due to APS-C.
Waited, hoping for fabled 3D, a FF with good build and good AF, not too many pixels. Canon released 7D instead, good in its way, nice for birds, but for me that's a fringe use.
1D4 comes out, at the same time as Nikon's D3s. I think, I deliberate, I decide that I've had it with Canon! Hell, I can afford to sell lenses at some loss, people do it with cars, boats, snowmobiles, RVs all the time.
I will get a Nikon again, see if I like the system, and go from there. Local dealer was selling off old D3 demos, old 70-200 lenses, I go, I buy. So far I'm very happy with it, but haven't had enough chance to use it.
If I like it a lot, and I think I need it, I'll upgrade to the D3s, but sofar the ISOs are good enough. same with lens. we'll try some indoor sports tonight finally - see if it's better, worse or the same as 1D3.
only bummer is Nikon tax on lenses, but then there's the 5 year warranty, not a slouch exactly, compared to Canon's 1 year period.
The shadow recoverability is great: one of these is HDR, the other is not. Both have the forested areas backlit, a dark grey-brown in the RAW file. The colors are enhanced but not created (I did not selectively change WB, for instance, or any similar trick)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/helmutsteinwender/4327068288/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/helmutsteinwender/4331140565/
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