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Coming late to this thread...
It's interesting, as this was something I was thinking on at the weekend.
It was the purchase of a 300D that got me back into photography a little while after it was released. As such I shall never regret that purchase. But since then I have been captured by rangefinders, well and truly. RFs are my go to gear, although I have plenty of different systems to choose from (manual K-mount, Pen F, Bronnie SQ-A as well as the EOS and Leica-mount). In a tool-for-the-job sense it's RF or SLR, with the choice of SLR being down to my mood.
For example, I like shoot a lot of gigs and it's the DSLR for colour low-light performance (Neat Image is great, and surprisingly effective), and it also gets grabbed for macro. I shoot for a friend's firework company, and that takes the DSLR every time.
Everything else, usually film and usually RF.
But, use of RFs has changed my approach to the DSLR. These days I use it almost exclusively on manual - and once I got to know it, I find manual use of the 300D to be quite comfortable. Except for focussing - VF is too small and dim, and the screen just isn't made for it. Also I have moved to almost all primes (the only zoom I have for it now is the kit lens). And I'm using more M42 glass - I think I remember reading somewhere about a hack to the adapter that can re-awaken focus confirmation. Must look again for that.
And at the weekend I shot a gig with my M2 and CV 75. Took the Canon along also, but didn't take it out of the bag until I shot my two rolls of film. After a couple of frames scanned, I think I prefer what I got on film! But that was a very close-up shoot. I wouldn't want to try a bigger venue with it.
It's interesting, as this was something I was thinking on at the weekend.
It was the purchase of a 300D that got me back into photography a little while after it was released. As such I shall never regret that purchase. But since then I have been captured by rangefinders, well and truly. RFs are my go to gear, although I have plenty of different systems to choose from (manual K-mount, Pen F, Bronnie SQ-A as well as the EOS and Leica-mount). In a tool-for-the-job sense it's RF or SLR, with the choice of SLR being down to my mood.
For example, I like shoot a lot of gigs and it's the DSLR for colour low-light performance (Neat Image is great, and surprisingly effective), and it also gets grabbed for macro. I shoot for a friend's firework company, and that takes the DSLR every time.
Everything else, usually film and usually RF.
But, use of RFs has changed my approach to the DSLR. These days I use it almost exclusively on manual - and once I got to know it, I find manual use of the 300D to be quite comfortable. Except for focussing - VF is too small and dim, and the screen just isn't made for it. Also I have moved to almost all primes (the only zoom I have for it now is the kit lens). And I'm using more M42 glass - I think I remember reading somewhere about a hack to the adapter that can re-awaken focus confirmation. Must look again for that.
And at the weekend I shot a gig with my M2 and CV 75. Took the Canon along also, but didn't take it out of the bag until I shot my two rolls of film. After a couple of frames scanned, I think I prefer what I got on film! But that was a very close-up shoot. I wouldn't want to try a bigger venue with it.
