Digital BW, The Print

On 4/26/05 10:58 AM, "Peter Tucker" <peter@...> typed:

> Settle down now folks, I have Nikon leneses from 1965 that I can still
> use - do I hear anyone mentioning their Canon Breech lock lenses - or
> the other incarnations they've had to dump? Perhaps Nikon isn't so
> bad.


So do I and I don¹t see what apologies Nikon has to make.
I just picked up a 55 macro AI yesterday yesterday made I think in the late
70¹s a honey of a piece of glass which I¹ll use on every Nikon body I¹ve
bought in 30 years.  Including my D100 digital.
The thread could be ³dump Canon for Nikon² as far as I go.

For a company one tenth the size of Canon there are plenty of innovations in
Nikons favor.

Off the top of my head the 12-24mm (18-36) which I used for two years on my
D100 before Canon got around to coming up with a ³match² for it.
A 10-22.

Nikons flash was well ahead of Canons until the past year and a half when
they may have finally caught up.
Before that ask any Pro you could never trust your Canon flash.

And this was well after Canon came out with their brainwashing campaign with
the white lenses for the fashion runway and other high profile photojournist
photographers giving the impression that everyone had switched to Canon.

When the F4 came out the EOS which also came out had faster AutoFocus.
When the F5 came out it was faster than Canons offerings.
We are now on the F6.

The Rebel was a toy compared to Nikons D70 which solidly won the sweeps last
year.

³Full Frame² digital (24x36) is blown way out of proportion in it¹s
usefulness. And people forget you can shoot full frame digital with Nikon.
The photojournalist I always run into in my neighborhood who shoots for the
Oregonian shoots with a Nikon D2H.
4 megs!
The Opposite of a full frame!


Mark Rabiner
Photography
Portland Oregon
http://rabinergroup.com/





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