gsgary
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Just made an adapter to try pinhole with my TLR
The older I get the more I realize that a camera is a camera. I've said it before I will get what ever camera suits my needs the best. It could be a Pentax but as long as it did what I need it to do I am happy.
Jk I'd never buy a Pentax.
I reiterate my point. ^this is a nikon user.
Now don't you want to switch?
THIS^^ [runnah] is a recent convert to Canon, and he's a former Nikon user...
You know how they say,"There's nobody more insufferable than an ex- cigarette smoker?"
I was for six years, a dual-system owner, with $10,000 worth of Canon gear in addition to three decades' worth of Nikon gear...two Canon d-slr bodies with grips, three Canon L-lenses, some regular Canon primes, and two Sigma zooms....so...I actually KNOW what Canon is like from having spent over $10,000 of my own money, just to see if it could replace Nikon for my uses. It could not, really.
Yeah...Canon... They had a lead in digital imaging at one time, but they lost it when Nikon came out with the D3 generation of bodies. They might some day gain their lead back, but probably not until they can upgrade their sensor fabrication to something newer than the 50-micron process they are saddled with today, and have been for about a decade. That old-fashioned sensor technology is why Canon can't hit the 36-megpaixel threshold, and is stuck below 24 MP on every sensor size...old sensor technology...and ALL sensors fabricated by Canon...not the best producer, whoever that might be, but in-house... see the article linked to a few posts up, about Sony sensors...
Except that 36mp is not an advantage on a 24mm x 36mm sensor. The camera is diffraction limited by f/8 and I don't care what glass you put on. That's physics... not opinion.
Not even a Pentax 645Z medium format digital SLR? 51 megapixels of luscious medium format juiciness! No? Ok, so you might not "buy" the Pentax... but if someone gave you one, I suspect you'd try to hold back on just pitching it in the trash.
I've had this conversation with some photographer friends recently, and I'm interested to hear you all weigh in on it. I shoot Nikon because I find the build quality to be superb, I love the feel of the cameras in my hand, and I love Nikon optics. However, there are drawbacks as there are on any system, and I have had Canonites point out things like color reproduction/skin tones that are different among the two. So, set aside the fact that I am already heavily invested in Nikon, and set aside the fact that it is the photographer not the camera that makes good photos, why should I switch to Canon? Convince me.