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
In terms of modern digital SLRs I have become locked in to Nikons - much as you do I am afraid when you buy some lenses and it then becomes hard to initiate a genre change unless you are REALLY motivated to do so. For the moment I have settled on a D70s and some AF lenses dating to the mid 1990s which, although a little dated (they are non D) are great quality and of very substantial build producing superb images. I could have equally well have become a Canon user as in some ways I think these are better than Nikons - there is not a Canon AF I have seen that is not faster in the AF department than the Nikon equivalent and usually just as sharp. But the Nikons often feel as if they are built like the proverbial brick out house and I like that too.

In terms of older film based SLRS I cover the field somewhat. Canon FL mount, Nikon pre AI mount and Pentax screw mount especially. All fine cameras in their day and a lot of fun to use, plus being dated mounts the lenses tend to be cheap even though good quality. Incidentally while I have always liked Pentax Spotmatics (and pre spotmatics for that matter) I always assumed they were significantly cheaper than the Canon equivalent of the era ( say mid 1970s) much as they are, and were, wtih Nikons.

Not so - I was reading an old SLR camera book from the mid 1970s the other day and the Spotmatic was actually listed as a little dearer than the Canon FT even though the FT has the more up to date bayonet mount and coming from the Canon stable is regarded as being more "professional" these days. Both had a standard lens although possibly the Canon was thee f1.8 50mm and the pentax may have beent he f1.4 50mm. Maybe thats the reason but - go figure!
 
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Nachkebia said:
Nikon indeed!....... btw now my wife shoots nikon and she does not allow me to sell anyof nikons to fund MP 😀
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my wife feels the same way about the D200 kit; all the RF gear I want to obtain has to be funded w/o selling any part of the nikon kit.
 
Started with a Nikon FM2 and 50mm 1.8, I still have it. I have since added an F5, F3 and a D80. I also purchased a 50mm 1.2 to go with my 24mm 2.0 and some AF lenses like a 50mm 1.4 AF, 20mm 2.8 AF, 70-200 2.8 AF VR and 17-35 2.8 AF.
I've tried Cannon and have access to all the best from them, but it just never felt right in my hands.
 
Started as a kid with my mom's Canon AE-1 (she never used it and she didn't mind because at least someone was).

Then I got a Minolta for my first AF film camera early in college. But after the mirror fell out and it took 6 weeks to get back I realized the Minoltas wouldn't cut it for my semi-pro work.

I then shot Nikon film cameras for several years until I went back to Canon for digital. But now I shoot Nikon DSLRs, as up until the 40d, they didn't have a weather/dust sealed mid level body (I couldn't afford a 1dMKII). As nice as the Canon digital gear is, I don't see any reason to switch now. I like the ergonomics of the Nikons better and the digital file quality has caught up to Canon's (at least for what I need - I don't want to get into that debate).

But I've started to like the rangefinder experience and like the way film holds highlights and I like black and white film better than digital b/w. That said, if someone introduces an 8-12MP interchangable lens digital RF in the $1000-1500 range (Cosina????), I may get one and not go back to film.
 
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Personally, first a Nikon F3, and now a F and F2, which are both lovely. In the interim, I have had an Olympus OM4 and OM1 (really lovely camera, great viewfinder, but all the nice OM lenses are so expensive). Now I mostly use my Leica, but my F2 and 45mm pancake is definitely one of my favourite cameras.
 
Nikon for me, started off with the old F from my dad. The madness continued from there, FM2, F3, F4s and now 2 beatup F5s.

Digitally, i've been stuck to the Fuji line of dslrs (F mount.. )Though i do have a 1d/1ds with a stock 50 1.4 EF, i mainly refrain from using Canon's glass as most of them seemed to fall apart after 2 - 3 years of hard use. Love the CY/F - EOS adapters though... 🙂
 
When I used 35mm SLR, I shot with minolta SRT102 bodies (four of them) for the first 15 years of my career. When I could no longer get reliably nice professional grade lenses for the MD mount bodies I moved to Nikon FM2n bodies, then F100 then D100, D2h, D70, D70s, D200...etc... Now I make my living with Nikon, carry a Canon point and shoot (SD700IS...maybe soon a G9) and use Leica and Rollei for fun.

I did use an OD green Canon F1 at one duty assignment in the USArmy as an 84B10f (Still Photo Specialist) and it was OK, but mostly I prefered my minoltas because I knew them more intimately.

The only reason that I chose Nikon when moving on from minolta is that Nikon had maintained the F mount and was the only company still making professional mechanical cameras along side the AF wiz bang bodies like the F100/F5 and with the promise of DSLRs on the horizon also all taking the same lenses. Given the FANTASTIC tool that iTTL / CLS is, I'm happy that I went with Nikon. (Though, Canon DSLRs are pretty cool too and ETTL II is gaining ground.)
 
My first really good camera was a Nikon F. I used Nikons professionally through the manual focus years. I got PO'd at Nikon when the F3 came along and I bought an early model. It was a real disappointment. Nikon Professional Services couldn't keep it running--it seemed to stop working when the relative humidity levels increased. I also was disappointed in the reliability of the motor-driven FMs that came along about the same time. None of these cameas were of the same caliber as the F or F2. When I decided to buy an autofocus camera, I considered Nikon but went with Canon EOS. I've been very happy with them, now owning four film bodies and a DSLR. I still have a couple of beat-up but still working Nikon F2 bodies in the back of the closet for the nostalgia.
 
Primarily Canon, but i have Nikon envy 🙂

Primarily Canon, but i have Nikon envy 🙂

I love Canon, but as a Macintosh user, the better build quality of Nikon (especially the old F series), calls to me.
 
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