THE NIKON - CANON BATTLE

Friday, November 11, 2005

I try hard not to get into this kind of topic, but I am tempted. Photography-on-the.net is full of Canon fans, which obviously means that people take sides very easily. But in one such thread pitching the big two against each other, a senior member - Kenny A. Chaffin wrote something that I found interesting.

"My advice as always is to look at it as an investment. Which "system" has more to offer, which offers the features you want and which one is going to continue to do so in the future? Don't even look so much at a particular camera, but at the lenses offered, the reputation, the quality and research put into them. When you do, I think your answer will be the same as mine was early this year -- Canon."

I own a Canon and love it. So I naturally have my prejudices and will obviously fall in line with this opinion. But I have a slight hesitation here. To be fair, Nikon does deserve some credits in technologies related to dSLR bodies(I know, he says don’t even look at the body). It is Nikon who first came up with instant start, minimal shutter lag bodies. Canon still has not matched Nikon bodies in maximum number of frames(more than a 100) in continuous shooting. But again, seeing how 350D/Rebel XT managed to catch up quickly against D70 Canon is pretty good even when they are catching up.