Are you a Canon or a Nikon SLR-shooter?

Are you a Canon or a Nikon SLR-shooter?

  • Nikon

    Votes: 628 56.0%

  • Canon

    Votes: 471 42.0%

  • other

    Votes: 368 32.8%

  • none

    Votes: 19 1.7%
  • Total voters
    1,121
I understand that. However, among the other things I'm finding strange with a rangefinder is my problem of always looking in the centre of the field to line up the super-imposed images. This of course means that the edges of my images are not getting the attention they'd normally get with my SLR's.
My F, F2 and FA all have grid screens which means that I can and do focus by looking at any portion of the field.
Again, it's something I'm having to get used to.
 
rbsinto,
It does take practice. I spent years using Nikon manual SLRs with fast lenses and plain focus screens so that I could focus very quickly. An RF is not much different than a central auto-focus spot, but it did take me time to learn to focus quickly, then compose. With lenses wider than 50, I learned to rely more on depth-of-field. When following action with a 50 or longer lens, sometimes I have to accept the fact that the subject will be more centered than it should be.
 
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Hmmmm ... What I like about this forum is that their are no heads stuck in the sand about rangefinder / film is the ONLY way to go ... that closet SLR users do frequent these pages !
 
dee said:
Hmmmm ... What I like about this forum is that their are no heads stuck in the sand about rangefinder / film is the ONLY way to go ... that closet SLR users do frequent these pages !
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Yes, and it appears nearly 2/3 of them are running either Canon or Nkon or both, and THAT's a little unnerving! 😱

(I actually did borrow a Nikkorex once with the 43-86mm zoom, so maybe I should have voted as having used a Nikon myself!)
 
rbsinto said:
I understand that. However, among the other things I'm finding strange with a rangefinder is my problem of always looking in the centre of the field to line up the super-imposed images.
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I guess that has never been a big issue for me. I focus on the spot I want to be the primary point of my image and then can happily move the VF around as I need to.

However the biggest thing - and I think that this thread helps - is to avoid thinking that any one style of camera can do everything perfectly. Bzzt! If that were the case there would be only one kind...

My go bag has my ZI Ikoflex Ia TLR & my Bessa R w/ Canon glass. Within easy reach is a 2x3 press camera with a 6x7 back & seriously wild old lenses..There are no bad cameras (though I will cop to some being way worse than others ... 😉 ). Only people unwilling to learn a given cameras limits... Hope this make some sense to someone other than me... 😱

William
 
Morca007 said:
Digital- Fujifilm S1 Pro
Film- Nikon, FG, N80
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The FG seemed to me a nice SLR, easy to use, and I bought a new one for my parents long ago, with a Tamron 35-80mm zoom. They liked it pretty well, took it to India and China and the Caribbean, but as time passed they came to prefer a simple point-n-shoot type.

When we moved my mom out of the house a couple years ago the FG was still in the front closet. I took it to my local repair guy for CLA, but the internals had been rusted and corroded over the years... A humid environment with the house right at sea level on Puget Sound... It might also have gotten wet in their boat. Unrepairable, and the lens too. 🙁
 
Started in photography with my grandfathers's Contaflex then into a Pentax ME Super (love the compact size), then into nikons (FA, F801s) (didn't really need to, but worked in a camera store where you " had to be a nikon user or you didn't know anything about photography" 🙄 , then to Minoltas - currently own a few too many -9000, 8000i, 5xi, 9xi, 9 and nice lenses 20 - 400 primes. Digital SLR has really knocked their resale so I've sort of just kept them, really should set them free. Will always keep the 9 though.

Also have an OM1 and a Nikkormat Ftn with 50 primes- I got to the point where I realised the electronic wizardry is actually distancing me from what I enjoy - twisting a focus ring, and winding on manually, seting aperture and shutterspeed. It's that feeling that drew me into to rangefinders.
 
I started (semi-serious) photography with a Canon Digital Rebel and upgraded to a 20D within a year. From there I went through various different bodies (film and digital) and lenses, buying and selling, just to try different things out. I used to be very Canon gung-ho, but as my skill, style, and tastes progressed and changed, I eventually became detached from any equipment brand loyalty, though not on purpose. If anything, I really dislike Canon now because of their marketing practises and lack of customer service (atleast here in Canada). The only thing keeping me a Canon shooter is my 20D, two lenses, and a flash. I've successfully whittled down my Canon arsonal of multiple bodies and several lenses to just the bare minimum so it won't take much for me to switch brands if needed.

I really am a firm believer of using anything as long as it gets the picture in the end, even if it's something as simple as a coffee can with a hole in it and sheet film.
 
I started with Nikon (F3-HP). Then continued with the F4s. The next one was the EOS 1 and then the EOS 1n and up to EOS 3. After that, I had a taste for the Zeiss glass and it has been Contax ever since. Hard to go back to Canon or Nikon after Zeiss takes it's toll on you 🙂

Currently have a Contax NX body with assorted N mount lenses and a T2 for a point & shoot.
 
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