1963mca wrote:
Started with a Canon F1, added an AE1. Then newer Canons came out and I couldn't use my collection of FD lenses on the new bodies. Ouch! Investigated Nikon, found much better lens compatibility between models, traded my Canon gear for a Nikon F4 and some lenses, and haven't looked back. Not dissatisfied with Canon, just the inability to upgrade bodies without losing use of all my existing lenses caused me to flip. Yes, I know Nikon has some new lenses that don't play well with my old cameras, but I'm now up to a D800 and can still use all my old lenses with the new bodies. Not ready to go to a D850, I'll wait and see what the D900 brings.
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Well said 1963mca, I know of many others who made the same choice and dumped the Canon equipment and switched to Nikon when Canon decided incompatibility was in their best interest not the customers. I know for a fact Canon builds good equipment as does Sony, and I believe Sony will be right at the top when they develop a complete line of lenses. After using Nikon since the seventies and many years professionally in difficult environments I have been very satisfied with the reliability and quality of work their equipment produces. I would never consider investing thousands of dollars in equipment, and having to be concerned about it being devalued by engineered incompatibility. Any Nikon lens I ever purchased always mounted and worked on any body I owned from the seventies to present. I don't think an honest Canon user could say the same thing, and for many it would not matter, but to me it does.