Nikon vs Canon
Late last night, Y, S, R and myself went out for a drink. Everytime i see R, he always carry his SLR along with him. as you guys know that i am interested of getting a SLR but i am only afraid that i will lose interest in it after a while. i did my research and i found out that: -
| Canon | Nikon | |
| viewfinder | insufficiently high-eyepoint for many eyeglass wearers | excellent for eyeglass wearers on big expensive bodies |
| autofocus | superb with ultrasonic lenses, especially with higher-end bodies where the focus and shutter release can be put on separate buttons, thus allowing MF and AF simultaneously |
superb with rare and expensive AF-S lenses and newest bodies; cumbersome with most AF lenses |
| best lenses | big long image-stabilized glass (100-400/4.5-5.6 IS, 300/2.8 IS, 600/4 IS) and unique pieces such as 35-350 |
wide angles and macro |
| fill flash | very good with newest bodies and EX flashes | superb with D lenses |
| best body | EOS-1V for the viewfinder, Elan 7E for the low cost, light weight, built-in flash, and eye -control focus gimmick, Rebel 2000 for ultimate light weight. |
N80; the F5 has great features but it weighs more than most medium-format cameras |
| macro | difficult to use macro lenses with studio strobes or handheld light meter because bodies don’t compute effective aperture, latest macro lenses (100, 180) include ultrasonic motors, no bellows but MP 65/2.8 lets you go beyond 1:1 conveniently; current 50mm macro lens is weak (only goes to 1:2 and lacks ultrasonic motor) |
superb 60, 105, and 200, lenses, all of which go to 1:1, bodies compute effective aperture, e.g., marked f/16 on the lens turns into indicated f/32 in the viewfinder at 1:1 |
| durability | incredible with EOS-1 and EOS-3 bodies, which are impervious to rain; excellent with consumer bodies |
incredible with water-sealed F5 and F100; excellent with consumer bodies |
| perspective correction lenses |
superb, auto aperture and both tilt and shift in 24, 45, and 90mm focal lengths | two primitivelenses, 28 and 35, available with manual aperture. Shift is useful for control of architectural perspective, but lack of tilt prevents useful depth-of-field control. |
| film transport | revolutionary in speed and noise with the rubber-belt systems in the mid-range consumer bodies (e.g., Elan 7) but remember that infrared diode fogs IR film |
nothing special |
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