Emily L. Ferguson wrote:
I switched from Nikon when I went digital because the camera I examined when I was deciding seemed to offer many more customization options than the D100 I had already used.D100 is an old and almost forgotten fossile :(
Why not to try D70 that is completely from another league?
The reason I am fancying Nikon's D2...line (not able to purchase one) is that I have manual focus lenses, very badly supported by D70.
But D70 is said to have very good colour handling and D2X is said to have one even better.
Try to find what Bjørn Rørslett has to say about D2X and D1s make II.
Peeter
In addition, the Auto WB on the Canon seemed to give me accurate color outdoors while the Nikon WB required incessant calibrating.
Although the colors are flat in the RAW files I get now, I have learned how to tweak them in ACR for the Velvia-like intensity which is the stock-in-trade of landscape photography. I rarely need to correct the color temp in my captures, whether they're under incandescent/fluorescent light (as in the pic I put in the gallery last week) or "daylight", when I open the RAW files. Saves lots of time.
The 10D has some characteristics which have been abandoned, like the 1.5 second lag time between switching the camera on and when the LCD screen comes up, and the jpeg embedded in the RAW file, which can only be extracted with the Canon software. The 20D has one characteristic which I don't care for at all - the mount is designed for Canon's new line of lenses which are tailored to the smaller sensor, and some of those lenses are not backwards compatible. But all the older Canon lenses will mount on the 20D.
Something I don't like about my 10D is that the viewfinder is nowhere near 100%, it must be something like 92%. Careful composing in the viewfinder turns out to have stuff in it I couldn't see. But for $650-$700 on eBay at present I would not be unhappy if all I could afford was a second 10D body.
Canon Pro glass is right up there at the top of the heap and I recommend sticking with it. Although Tokina is highly regarded, my experience is that the best EOM lenses are actually the best lenses.
