popinvasion wrote:
Hide me lists are for 11 year olds. The subject of this thread is what do you like or not like about Nikon. Please contribute. If you have nothing to add but attacks, leave the thread and send me a pm. I can handle whatever gripe you may have. Pm me. We can hammer it out.
Nikon and Canon both make excellent cameras, lenses, and related equipment. Great photographers currently use both systems to produce stunning photographs, and if you see their work hung side by side in galleries (and I often do) you will be completely unable to determine which camera brand was used.
We are at a wonderful time in the development of photography technology, with powerful systems in a range of formats and coming from a diversity of manufacturers.
I know and have known many photographers. I frequently shoot side by side with folks using a range of systems — different brands and different formats ranging from MF film and digital, though multiple FF digital systems, to cropped sensor and 4/3 models. When we discuss how it was that we arrived at a particular brand, it turns out that the decision was rarely a logical or calculated one. A friend or family member owned a brand, so we got the same thing. There was a sale on one or the other. A relative gave us one. Our school program happened to be equipped with one or the other. At the particular time we purchased our first system, we were attracted to some particular area in which one brand seemed to be ahead.
This year Nikon is a bit ahead in sensor technology, since they are closer to the start of their use of a newer generation of sensors. Unless something surprising and almost unprecedented happens, Canon (and probably others) will equal or surpass this current level of sensor when they arrive at their next generation. Canon produces a wide range of excellent lenses, though if Nikon has what you need theirs are also excellent.
Of all the questions you\'ll need to answer in your photographic career, \"Nikon or Canon?\" is perhaps just about the very least important.
Is that on topic enough for some of you? I still say that a question that is specifically about Nikon (as \"What do you like/dislike about Nikon?\" surely is) belongs in a Nikon forum. People looking to find out about Nikon most logically look there.
On to Utah...
Dan
Oct 18, 2014 at 10:24 AM
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