Well Bill, here was my thinking -
My reasons for going digital were two fold, one to move into the
'digital age' and two to get an auto focus body as my eyes are not what
they used to be.
As for using OM glass on the digital, I did not really see the point. My
favorite Zuiko glass is my wide angle lenses, which are more or less
worthless (in my mind) on a digital body. (unless you did a full frame,
which is way beyond my budget.) As for the tele zooms which would be of
some use on the digital body, it is here that I am thinking I really
want to the auto focus, using a tele zoom in manual focus stop down mode
just does not make sense to me. It made more sense to sell off some of
my lenses, keeping only what I would use on the OM bodies and buy AF
lenses for the digital.
As to shy Nikon, after playing with both Canon and Nikon bodies in my
price range (I sound up with a used D70) I just plain preferred the
handling and control layout of the Nikon, it just made more sense to my
than the Canons did.
Just my 2cents worth.
Jim
NSURIT@xxxxxxx wrote:
>I'm a little curious why folks are thinking of going to Nik*n as opposed to
>Can*n. It is not that Nik*n doesn't make a good camera, but rather if you
>have a choice why you would choose a digital camera on which you weren't going
>
>to be able to use your OM glass in the event that you wanted to do so. My
>remarks need to be tempered by my saying that my first "real" 35mm SLR was a
>Nikon F with several great Nikon lenses that was purchase in 1968. At that
>time Nikon owned the high end SLR market. They have however managed to
>relinquish that position to Canon over the past 40 years or so. So my real
>question
>is, "Why, if the horse you are riding isn't getting you to the finish line,
>would you change to the horse which is in second place when you could mount
>up
>on the lead horse just as easily?" Is there some need to be the underdog
>that is driving us to Nikon rather than Canon? Inquiring minds want to know.
>
>Why Nikon rather than Canon? <[8^) Bill Barber
>
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