That ladder is nice but quite unreal as you present it. You can\'t pick any camera just like that if you have some lens set already that is incompatible with the chosen camera. Your easy solution would then be bogged down in a brand switch.
As others have said, changing whole systems is a whole other level of complexity. My point was to illustrate the cost vs feature set. In other words to answer the \"why doesn\'t the 7D have a D800 or 1D AF system\" question. But enough people have said that \"if the 5D III doesn\'t have XXX AF system then I\'m switching to Nikon\". So they seem to think its just like that.
For me personally, the Nikon offerings hold only academic interest. I\'ve spent a decade investing in Canon lenses and too many body upgrades. I chose Canon because of friends\' recommendations and cost effectiveness at the time, not because I thought Canon generally superior to Nikon. Both are excellent. If Nikon releases a feature set that is superior to Canon\'s this cycle, Canon will catch up next cycle. No big deal.
What I really don\'t understand is why so many are getting worked up that Nikon has released a camera that does seem to advance the technology vs price. Canon is going to have to respond and that can only be a good thing.
Edit: To those who think Canon is out to get them, here is a quote from Robert Heinlein, 1973,
\"Of course the game is rigged. Don\'t let that stop you--if you don\'t play, you can\'t win.\"
And here is another from the same book for James99 whose inflammatory rhetoric for a simple question got my goat:
\"Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people rub together. Often the very young, the untraveled, the naive, the unsophisticated, deplore these formalities as \'empty,\' \'meaningless,\' or \'dishonest,\' and scorn to use them. No matter how \'pure\' their motives, they thereby throw sand into machinery that does not work too well at best.\"
That ladder is nice but quite unreal as you present it. You can\'t pick any camera just like that if you have some lens set already that is incompatible with the chosen camera. Your easy solution would then be bogged down in a brand switch.
As others have said, changing whole systems is a whole other level of complexity. My point was to illustrate the cost vs feature set. In other words to answer the \"why doesn\'t the 7D have a D800 or 1D AF system\" question. But enough people have said that \"if the 5D III doesn\'t have XXX AF system then I\'m switching to Nikon\". So they seem to think its just like that.
For me personally, the Nikon offerings hold only academic interest. I\'ve spent a decade investing in Canon lenses and too many body upgrades. I chose Canon because of friends\' recommendations and cost effectiveness at the time, not because I thought Canon generally superior to Nikon. Both are excellent. If Nikon releases a feature set that is superior to Canon\'s this cycle, Canon will catch up next cycle. No big deal.
What I really don\'t understand is why so many are getting worked up that Nikon has released a camera that does seem to advance the technology vs price. Canon is going to have to respond and that can only be a good thing.
Edit: To those who think Canon is out to get them, here is a quote from Robert Heinlein, 1973,
\"Of course the game is rigged. Don\'t let that stop you--if you don\'t play, you can\'t win.\"
And here is another from the same book for James99 whose inflammatory rhetoric for a simple question got my goat:
\"Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people rub together. Often the very young, the untraveled, the naive, the unsophisticated deplore these formalities as \'empty,\' \'meaningless,\' or \'dishonest,\' and scorn to use them. No matter how \'pure\' their motives, they thereby throw sand into machinery that does not work too well at best.\"
That ladder is nice but quite unreal as you present it. You can\'t pick any camera just like that if you have some lens set already that is incompatible with the chosen camera. Your easy solution would then be bogged down in a brand switch.
As others have said, changing whole systems is a whole other level of complexity. My point was to illustrate the cost vs feature set. In other words to answer the \"why doesn\'t the 7D have a D800 or 1D AF system\" question. But enough people have said that \"if the 5D III doesn\'t have XXX AF system then I\'m switching to Nikon\". So they seem to think its just like that.
For me personally, the Nikon offerings hold only academic interest. I\'ve spent a decade investing in Canon lenses and too many body upgrades. I chose Canon because of friends\' recommendations and cost effectiveness at the time, not because I thought Canon generally superior to Nikon. Both are excellent. If Nikon releases a feature set that is superior to Canon\'s this cycle, Canon will catch up next cycle. No big deal.
What I really don\'t understand is why so many are getting worked up that Nikon has released a camera that does seem to advance the technology vs price. Canon is going to have to respond and that can only be a good thing.
Feb 09, 2012 at 01:01 PM
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