DVJ

How can you say EVERYONE is jealous of Canon cameras?

Have you asked EVERYONE?

Your argument is based on a false premise.

drmuttillo Loc: NorthEast Florida

You must be in a very small crowd or you are a Canon homie period. I have had Nikon. Minolta and several other camera brands and I have never seen red when someone wanted a canon. Get want is best for you not what someone else thinks. Or is it you see red when someone doesn't want a canon LOL.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING.

Pandylou Loc: The Levant

Buying a Nikon* doesn't make you a photographer. It makes you a Nikon* owner. Anon
(* Substitute Canon,Sony,Fuji as appropriate) :thumbup:

al davis Loc: chesterfield virginia

I too shoot canon but in todays world I believe it is all about preference.!!

georgevedwards Loc: Essex, Maryland.

Because for 10 years I shot with Canons and decided to try the new Nikons 3 years ago and am extremely happy with my D5200 and a bunch of Nikon lenses and right now I would rather fight than switch. I sell images, I am self employed and was the AGFP Gallery's top money maker for 5 years. That's why.

technilen Loc: New Jersey

Who really gives a rat's butt about the equipment we use? It's about vision and the ability to use the tools we have to capture an image that tells others something about ourselves or the world around us. That's important. The rest is posturing.

pithydoug Loc: Catskill Mountains, NY

You usually try to quell the riot. Throw the pebble in the pond grasshopper! :) :)

MarkintheHV Loc: Hudson Valley

I bought Canon because their name is cooler than Nikon.

I am gonna go shoot with my CANON sounds way better than I am gonna go shoot with my Nikon


:) :) :) :)

blackest Loc: Ireland

You know you do come across like the head of the canon cheerleading squad, fair enough you adore canon. Lets assume canon do make the best dslrs on the planet and yes canon has the largest market share currently.

However having a camera with a canon logo doesn't necessarily equate with having the best camera around.

Since Canon make great camera's and good camera's when you buy a good canon as compared with a great canon you must be buying an inferior camera because it isn't a great canon camera.

So it also becomes apparent that the majority of canon camera owners are buying inferior cameras because it's a certainty that canon sells more inferior camera's than great camera's.

This then gives other manufacturers an edge in. Perhaps they are incapable of matching or beating a great canon dslr but can they make a better camera than a good canon dslr? The answer would seem to be yes as most canon camera's are not as good as great canon cameras and since these lessor canon camera's are flawed examples. There will be alternatives that are a better choice for some people.

Does a great camera become a lesser camera because it has been used?
I think the answer is no to that within reason (a damaged camera clearly is). So is a secondhand hand nikon 610 a better camera than some new canon camera's. I think the answer has to be a yes here.

Therefore I conclude that no the answer is never going to be just buy a canon. As long as there are alternatives and they can be a better option than buying a flawed canon.

It should never be about the brand but the camera in your hands and what you can do with it.

CO

I don't like the ergonomics of Canon cameras. I don't like how the shutter button is in a groove that forces the index finger into one position. Buttons of different shapes are laid out all over the place. I think Nikon has put more thought into the layout of the buttons and controls. Everybody has different preferences though and should get the one that best suits them.

drmuttillo Loc: NorthEast Florida

If Bullshit was fertilizer all canon users would have botanical gardens growing around their canon camera bodies. LOL Try using a canon DSLR lens on a canon FX body will you.

Capn_Dave

I went with Canon for one reason..... There is no question about how to pronounce Canon. I mean what kind of camera is made by a mfg. with a name which is pronounced differently where you go. Gee really is it even the same camera?
I had one of those cameras and it broke while in a country that pronounced it differently and they would not fix it. Holy crap on a cracker.
Really I went for the glass. Canon has the biggest selection of glass of any mfg. and their glass is top notch

Noctilucent

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drmuttillo Loc: NorthEast Florida

Also a Towel LOL

winterrose Loc: Kyneton, Victoria, Australia

Canon DSLR? No, thanks very much....'cause frankly I don't think I could bring myself to attempt to make photographs with something that looks that much like a potato without cracking up.