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Binary Shadow:
Well I'm not sure if its just me but I tend to see some friction between nikon and canon owners, maybe some fanboi'ism or something.

I for one have been a canon fan from day one.. and yes a bit of a fanboi, starting debates with nikon owners and the like.

You can imagine then perhaps how annoyed I was when I collected my new pair of glasses today to be told the lenses are nikon (they used to use zeiss).. so now I'm almost permanently experiencing life through nikon glass.. arghhh!!

addictweb:
Haha. Lift must look pretty good right now!


Ive always been Nikon. I found cheap starter Canons way too toy-like (the 350D at the time) compared to the cheaper more substantial Nikons (D70).


In reality I dont think there is an difference at all.

Mongoose:
I don't think comparing the 350D to the D70 is entirely fair, the D70 was more 20D class with the D50 being the base model IIRC.

Personally of course I think you're all wrong because Pentax is clearly the best :D


With a purchase as expensive and difficult to reverse as choosing a camera system, there is inevitably going to be confirmation bias. Everyone wants to believe that they made the best possible choice because the alternative is realising that you'd really like to sell the lot and buy into a different system, which is both expensive and a massive hassle.

In my experience, the very best photographers I've talked to have held the opinion that, baring some very specific applications where one brand has a niche advantage, it doesn't matter a damn what brand is on the strap. If it's an SLR with decent glass then the quality of the image is 99.9% down to who's eye it's held up to.

Russell:
I think Mongoose got it about right (bar the Pentax bit of course :P)

People generally buy into a system when they start off for some reason that's sound at the time, I got a Nikon camera because I'd used a Nikon D2H in my last job and they had a couple of lenses I could borrow.  Similarly I bet a lot of people buy into Canon or Nikon because of people they know already having gear they can borrow and learn from, a friend of mine did that, he bought a Nikon D3000 for £200 and has borrowed my 18-55mm kit lens and my 70-300mm.  Its enough to get him going until he can buy his own lenses.  The other major factor is probably cost, I haven't looked into it but I seem to remember people saying that Canon were slightly cheaper especially for lenses.

There's no denying that each system has its positives and negatives, Nikon have the better ISO range at the mo, Canon have higher MP and a larger lens range (especially a good range of F4 lenses) although Nikon are starting to wise up to it and hopefully we'll see a good range from them too.

But really there's not that much in it, I bet you can't look at a picture and say it was taken with a canon or a nikon (or a pentax for that matter) without looking at the EXIF.

Eggtastico:
nikon cameras, but cannon lens
but its 99% behind who' pressing the button.

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