The internet is awash with people fed up with Canon, some pros selling up and moving entirely to Nikon.<\/p>\n
Afterall it’s been an odd year or so for Canon. The pro 1D MkIII had some flaws (mainly focusing – mine was returned with build issues and the fact it kept failing on my working lenses). The 1DS MkIII has noise and the odd one has a wonky horizon. And Canon really didn’t handle the PR job very well. Despite the world knowing the faults they just carried on regardless. To top it all Nikon released the D3, which by all accounts is a superb bit of kit.<\/p>\n
Now 1st July approaches with Nikon poised to release a 5D priced FX body (D10, D400, D700 – delete as applicable). Some are heralding it as the end of Canon. Once Nikon release this everyone will drop Canon like a shitty stick.<\/p>\n
There’s no doubt with this potential model Nikon have the stolen the technical edge in this current iteration of cameras and lenses (the Nikon 14-24 is meant to be the dogs bollocks, better than the new Canon EF14mm MkII – plus it’s cheaper). Nikon will further build on the success of the D3 with the 24mp D3X (though with will be interesting as Canon have found increasing the pixel density adds noise – Eos 1DS MkIII). <\/p>\n
So am I ditching Canon? <\/p>\n
No, my current kit still does what I want it do. I’m happy for Nikon to produce this kit. It’ll make Canon sit up and get their fingers out of their arse and concentrate on what matters most.<\/p>\n
The next body (well apart from the 1000D) should be the 5D replacement, whatever it’s called (5D MkII, 7D…….). This should be interesting, mainly to see if anything has been learnt from the last year. It’s been rumoured for a while, nothing concrete has come out. So maybe it’s gone through more testing than previous models. Lets wait and see, if they don’t learn the recent lessons then maybe when the time comes for me to upgrade then I’ll move on. <\/p>\n
But as I said earlier I’m happy to stay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The internet is awash with people fed up with Canon, some pros selling up and moving entirely to Nikon. Afterall it’s been an odd year or so for Canon. The pro 1D MkIII had some flaws (mainly focusing – mine was returned with build issues and the fact it kept failing on my working lenses). … <\/p>\n