Just to complicate matters a bit, but why not consider the Minolta 7D? I have one and can highly recommend it. The builtin "anti-shake" really works with every lens; I can routinely use my 100 macro at 1/25 sec, and can manage sometimes at 1/13 sec, handheld. Great image quality, great viewfinder (just go to a store and look through your favourite Nikon or Canon, and then with a similar lens mounted, try out the Minolta). And while your doing that, just notice how it feels in your hand. There's more to life than Nikon and Canon. -dan c. At 09:49 PM 30-04-05 +0300, Peeter Vissak wrote: >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. > >
