Well, I’ve sold my 5D. For the next few weeks I’ll be without a camera, but then I will have the 5D Mark II. This was one of my favorite pieces of electronic equipment I have owned and I have taken many great memories with it. With hope I will have even better memories of the next camera.
Ironically, the day I sold my camera Nelya received a big listing, so I wound up temporarily trading my macro gear for someone else’s 5D that I can use for the property.
This obviously means no new pictures for a bit, though I have some older shots I have been meaning to discuss and a pile of book reviews on my plate.
Interestingly, a number of my colleagues are jumping ship to the Nikon D3/D700 due to the better AF and high ISO handling. Granted, these cameras have better AF right now, but I think it is a mistake to switch for a single camera. Canon has regained most of the ground with the 5D Mark II and I suspect this is a competition where Nikon and Canon will trade places for some time.
Posted 3 years, 4 months ago at 3:32 am. 1 comment
Recently I had the opportunity to use a friend’s Nikon D200 camera. As most of you who know me are well aware of, I have never even held in my hands a non-Canon camera. When I was looking to purchase a camera, Canon was the only company that made full frame cameras so the choice was obvious. However, my friend had just received the camera and was trying to figure it out. For most of the time he was using it, but then handed it to me to take a family portrait.
Unfortunately I had never had the chance to use a Nikon before and I was rather confused at what all of the controls do. For those not familiar with Canon and Nikon, they seem to pride themselves in their own languages. For instance
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Canon
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Nikon
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| IS |
VR |
| Macro |
Micro |
| Tilt-shift |
PC |
These are just a few examples, but the camera might as well had Japanese written all over it because I couldn’t figure out how to switch to manual mode. I did figure out how to adjust the aperture and shutter speed, but I also couldn’t figure out how to trigger the in camera metering. I’m sure with a few minutes in front of the instruction manual it would not have been difficult to figure out, but I wound up blowing out every picture.
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Posted 3 years, 10 months ago at 4:15 am. 1 comment