> Hi Alex, > > I've said and posted this many time before, IMO (uh oh, I'm really > going out > on a limb here), once the decision to build a 35mm or 35mm sized SLR > system > is reached you need to find a camera system that can meet as many of > your > shooting requirements as possible. > > One of the primary features of any SLR system (or camera system with > interchangeable lenses), is of course the lens system. If you do the > research on the complete lens systems for each of the major SLR > makers and > consider what will be needed for the majority of your shooting you > can > narrow down the choices pretty quickly. Take the few remaining > brands and > pick a body with the features you want and what your head can wrap > itself > around operationally and you are going to be down to just 2 or 3 > brands. > > Then consider if you will occasionally need to travel to shoot, what > makes > are widely offered for hire for that occasional lens that you don't > own but > need for a shoot and/or the occasional extra body and your choices > will be > down to 2 makes. All of this is assuming you are a working pro or a > very > serious or very wacky amateur shooter. This is one reason why the > vast > majority of working pros and serious (and otherwise), amateurs use > Canon or > Nikon SLR gear. The other reason is advertising of course. 8^) > > Anything else is as you say a pointless discussion as to which is > "best." > > It was Canon's lens system that brought me to the EOS system and > Canon's > engineering lead and willingness to explore technology across the > lens > spectrum in the compact SLR format is what keeps me here. I was at > one > point a Nikon user long ago and soon after a Minolta user for many of > the > same reasons but Nikon long ago slipped to a distant second and sadly > seem > all too comfortable in that spot. Minolta I just don't understand, > they > have the technology and manufacturing capabilities but just don't > seem > interested any more. Sigh. > > > Cheers/Chip
Yeah, cannot disagree with you. The major reason of driving me towards Canon was also lens technology, even though I had a respect to their much debated AF technology. Unfortunately, I never owned Minolta high-end/pro bodies (Maxxum 9 or even Maxxum 7 - high-end ametru but extremely well packed), but still consider their bodies offering the best price/performance ratio. Also liked their ergonomics, though I found EOS-3 to be not bad at all in this respect for my liking. So far, I wasn't involved much into sport photography or anything related to high-speed AF tracking, however, shooting mostly more or less stationary subjects portraits, events, ... and really like night scenic. In many occasions, low-light AF had certain improtance for me, though cannot define it as a crucial feature defining my choice of the system. I guess I'll live with it not that bad either, learning the shortcuts and avoiding them, just like in any other system, but this is still something to impose certain inconvenience for me in certain situations.:-) Regards, Alex __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
