Thanks Robert for the great reply,
This brings up the question, what does IS and USM stand for?
Kuma
> My first own camera (before I used my father's AE2) was a Minolta
> 700si. Unfortunately, due to the circumstances I bought it quite in a
> rush. To make the story short, I was not very happy with it. Later on I
> did look more carfully into different cameras (Minolta, Canon, Nikon,
> Pentax) and figured that Canon was what I was looking for. First I did
> get a used EOS 5 with an 80-200/2.8 for a great price. Besides the fact
> that the EOS 5 did drain my batteries like crazy I did not regret the
> buy. Now what do I like about Canon better then Minolta? AF with the
> USM lenses (as well as the ARC of the 80-200) is much faster then the
> Minolta. I must admit that I compared professional Canon lenses with
> relatively cheap cosumer lenses by Minolta. But I have also looked into
> better lenses from Minolta (i.e.70(80?)-200/2.8) and still found the
> Canon superior. Also Canon's USM lenses made very little noise compared
> to any of the Minolta lenses. In addition, the handling of the Canon's
> bodies was better and more intitutive then Minoltas (and even more so
> compared to Nikon). Minolta did have a few better features, though.
> This includes the HS+wirless flash (which Canon also has now), storing
> personal settings that can be quickly loaded for different shooting
> situations, the custom card to store information for each shot taken
> (quite useless if you change film. All other cards are completely
> useless), etc. But honestly, I never did regret to change to Canon and
> I do not miss any of Minolta's feature that much. In my opinion, Canon
> has all the important advantages as many different kind of lenses, IS,
> USM, good bodies, good customer service, etc.
>
> Robert
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