Canon to Nikon and regretted it???

ryanyboy said:
Just thought - you COULD buy a nikon to Canon converter to allow you to use the Nikon 14-24 or 17-35 if you wanted. I seem to recall reading about a pro landscaper using all Canon except the 14-24 (and I'm sure he's not alone)
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I don't but I've been tempted. Reports are very good.

Another cheaper option than the TS-E 17mm is the Zeiss Distagon ZE 18mm which would cost you about £1100-1200.
 
trencheel303 said:
I imagine the lens choice might have affected that too.
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I'd hope not they were both on 24-70mm f2.8s so it was as fair a test as I could make it.

I don't ever use focus and recompose but shift the focus point to where my subject is. I found the focus recompose method led to a much larger proportion of soft shots, ones where there was still slight movement going on which is hardly unlikely waving the blasted thing about! ;)
 
An update on this.
After a frustrating day of near trades,sales and buys I've just decided to stay with Canon.The frustration was just way too much to carry on with the swap.

My plan of attack is to get a 24-70L to replace my 24-105L that I had sold.I gave the Nikon 14-24 some serious thought but after reading David Clapp's write up on using the lens I decided it was too much of an hassle on what would have been a £1500 lens and adaptor.
I'm now on the lookout for a Zeiss 21mm ZE or a 17mm T&S.If either comes up over the weekend at the right price I'll go for it.If not,I'm going to splash out on Zeiss 21mm and also keep hold of my 16-35 MK2 incase I need to go wider.

Thanks again everyone for your comments and help.

Cheers
Gary
 
I use whatever I can get my hands on. I have Nikon equipment but I more or less fell into it as Practika don't make dSLR's ;). As I shoot (99% of the time) at ISO100 any camera will do the job so it doesn't matter what brand name is on the front. Most fit my working style, they take photographs.
 
My first digital camera was and still is a Nikon D50.
I submitted my portfolio to a long-established monthly magazine (all taken with the D50 plus a Tamron 28-300 lens incidently, which since putting the lens on when I first got the camera, I have never removed).
As a result I was offered a part-time photography job, which I did for some two years, until I had to give up because of ill health.
The D50 gave good service to the magazine (and fingers crossed will continue to do so).
As a matter of interest I have also had quite a number of pictures blown up to A1, and yes, more than content with them.
Never having used a Canon I can't comment but, I would suppose just as good.
No intention of changing (so far, that is!)
 
I was in the fortunate position of using supplied Canon kit (through work) so when I did choose Nikon (when i bought my own gear) I was never thinking about the cost to swap. Nikon just seemed more logical choice for me in terms of better performance all-round over my then current camera (a 20D) and the D200 was perfectly suited to my need. Okay, Canon glass is probably a better range in terms of finding something to suit your budget, but in terms of IQ and AF there's nothing between them.

Whether I'm still using the right system now isn't of importance to me; I like what I have and it performs when i need it to....



...plus Nikon's have that cool little red triangle on the grip, which of course is of major importance ;) :D
 
If you are poor,,, save up for a Nikon D200 (body only) (£400 or less), and combine this with the Sigma lens of your choice.

If you are better off, but not affluent get a D700 body, and a nikkor of your choice. This will satisfy your needs for at least 4, maybe 6 or 7 years.

It's just pictures,,, after all.
 
should have gone with NI-KON in the first place :razz: :lol:
 
dinorock said:
should have gone with NI-KON in the first place :razz: :lol:
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Hindsight is a wonderful thing:D

On a serious note, buy a tin of black paint and paint those stupid white lenses black- you'll feel much better and save a ton of cash and hassle swapping over :lol::naughty:
 
AliB said:
Shooting at a recent workshop we had three D700's and one 5DII and the poor girl with the Canon had to give up shooting because she could not focus. We were using just a modelling lamp for illumination and deliberately going really dark but we were still shooting where she had to stop so we switched to doing something else :)

Just goes to show how utterly subject dependant your choice can be but it's all good :)
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Amazing. What it shows is that people have either forgotten or not bothered to learn that cameras existed for decades without autofocus, and photographers never gave up then when it got a bit dark. It's what manual focus, focusing scales, apertures, and estimating distance is for.
 
Fine if you have got all day to do it but not when you are shooting in a group and with a moving model, already shooting wide open your focussing scales would be next to useless I'm afraid.

yes I am that old and I still use a hassy that has not even got a meter ;)
 
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