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Here's 'da low down

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Posted by xenon101 on January 15, 2002 at 06:02:44

In Reply to: Unfortunately I nave no luxury do not know. posted by Romy on January 14, 2002 at 23:42:37:

I probably do more in one week with photography than you do in a month. The fact is, I use all of my cameras for different projects. I have the luxury of being able to use and compare multiple formats and multiple brands of 35mm, 6x6, 6x7, 6x12, and 4x5 (using multiple lens brands). This also includes such oddities as an Imagon lens. I would dare you or anyone to look at transparencies on a light box and tell me if they were made with a Canon or Nikon. It's the end result that counts - not the equipment used.

As a person who started out using manual cameras well over 40 years ago, the speed of focus of an autofocus camera is a moot point unless you regularly shoot something like sporting events. I have done some sports work where I thought autofocus was an advantage (horse racing and NASCAR) but, I have never thought that I've missed a shot because the Nikon focus system was "too slow." So - frankly you have your opinion, I have my experience, and I don't agree with you.

Personally, I find Canons difficult to use because the controls do not seem to be layed out very well. It all comes down to personal preference, my preference is for Nikons because I like the way they operate and the ED series glass is very, very good. In fact, in many instances, if you do not know what to look for in a picture, you could not tell the difference between the Nikon ED glass and Leica glass. In most cases, Nikon will be sharper if measured in lp/mm (yes! it's true!) but - the Leica picture will have more depth and apparent sharpenss to the eye because the lens contrast is slightly better. Leica designers know that contrast improves the "look" of the photo and will often tradeoff MTF for better contrast (and color balance).

I have been in the photo/imaging business professionally for over 30 years including esoteric areas such as high speed motion pictures and high speed video. I have designed infrared imaging systems for finding buried land mines - including specifying the construction of custom IR lenses, IR mirrors, and IR folded optic systems. I also hold 5 U.S. patents for improvements to video cameras. I speak from a lot of experience with a lot of different equipment over 3 decades of imaging. How about you???

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