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Canon or Nikon?? Opinions please

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garrardrj:
Budget has a great influence over what you can get.....Lenses are the most important part i would say and spend the money on the lens more than the body. At Jessops recently they had a £349 or was it £329 point and shoot with the same sensor as their dslr's (not the full frame ones obviously) i think it is called a S95. Great write up everywhere and they had a Canon employee in for the day. This also shoots in raw which helps. Also i am quite impressed with the new sony NEC5 and they have a newer one out now and can't remember the name

I say decide on a budget first then if you def want dslr i would say Canon....like i would reccomend VW  :happy2:

Its like trying to decide on BMW or Mercedes , depends alot on how it handles and what it looks like.

jonm:
Canon all the way for me....

Norbreck21a:
Nice outfit.

Especially like the Sigma 10-300 F4 you have. Had one of these for years and it was one of the best lenses I had, until it and my old D2X it was attached to fell 30 feet from a tree hide onto the ground   :sad:

Not much left of it after that, although amazingly the D2X was repairable by Nikon UK !

My 300 F2.8 is slightly sharper but I do sometimes miss the convenience of a good tele zoom.

markfive:
I decided to get back into photography as a hobby earlier this year. I've not been heavily into cameras for personal use for about 10 years, just been pointing and shooting with consumer Sony gear, but have been using Canon still (EOS 50D/60D) and video cameras (XH A1) at work for the last three years or so, not full time but standing in for our normal photo/videographers when needed.

So cue a load of research - online, forums, magazines etc. And a lot of visits to camera shops to compare handling etc etc. All of which is a good idea IMO when you are going to commit this sort of money.

Now I don't have the degree of experience that some do (at best I'm an enthusiastic amateur) but I do know that I wanted a camera that was going to last me for years, had reasonable aftermarket support, would stand up to some abuse and of course would take quality pictures with a full range of manual controls as well as sensible automated intervention when I want it.

The no-brainer choice for me would have been a Canon 60D, which is what I've had access to over the last few years. But the outcome for me was that I purchased a Pentax K-5. Every shop I went into was trying to sell me either Nikon or Canon but the Pentax won me over for a variety of reasons, not least of which was that it handled really well IMO. It's true that Nikon and Canon have a lot of support, and rightly so - they are great pieces of kit - but the K-5 just ticked so many boxes for me. Used it loads since I bought it and have never once regretted the choice.



Hedge:

--- Quote from: markfive on June 16, 2011, 09:56:10 pm ---But the outcome for me was that I purchased a Pentax K-5. Every shop I went into was trying to sell me either Nikon or Canon but the Pentax won me over for a variety of reasons, not least of which was that it handled really well IMO. It's true that Nikon and Canon have a lot of support, and rightly so - they are great pieces of kit - but the K-5 just ticked so many boxes for me. Used it loads since I bought it and have never once regretted the choice.

--- End quote ---

Hello my friend. Fellow K-5 owner here.  :love:

I'm on my 2nd thanks to Sony making a mess of the sensor on my 1st and looking to replace my K-7 with another one.  :smiley:

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