Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/12/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Vick, If you don't have a bagful of Nikon lenses, I say start with Canon. Overall, Canon has best low-light, high-ISO performance. Though I hear there's a Nikon that's good in that area. Availability of full-frame-sensor bodies. No other manufacturer offers them. If you shoot people, full frame lets portrait lenses perform as they should with shallow depth of focus. The Canon 5D recently tested as having the best skin tone rendition. See ShootSmarter.com. Also, wide-angle lenses don't lose angle of coverage with a full-frame sensor. Availability of L-series and IS lenses. Canon got the jump on everyone with anti-shake technology and will most likely stay in the lead. Nearly limitless resources, you know. Of course, Minolta (now Sony or Pentax??) bodies with anti-shake sensors mean every lens is anti-shake. That sounds like a good deal. Right now, Canon has rebates in effect. Purchase a 5D with another qualifying product and get $600 back on the 5D. I'm tempted to add a second 5D to the stable for that reason, alone. Is Canon perfect? No. But they DO get fixes in the pipeline very, very quickly. Because of the vast pro contingent they support, everybody benefits. Bonus benefit--the Canon EF 200mm f/1.8L. A lens like no other and no longer manufactured, supposedly because of some glass-formulation chemical process that even Asians won't tolerate. I hope that helps. -Chris Lawson