View single post by highlander

Posted: Fri Aug 12th, 2016 13:23

Joined:	Tue Jul 24th, 2012
Location:	Scotland, United Kingdom
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I was always Nikon. Then I got a Canon 50D. I quite like it, but after only six months the shutter jammed and it cost more to get it fixed than to replace it. I scrapped it. I then went to Fuji and was happy. Camera performance was superb and lens quality second to none IMHO. I loved the aperture being back on the lens and all manual control. It was like going back to when I first started photography and i felt like a photographer again rather than a computer boffin.

But, and it was a pain in the butt of a but - none of the lenses were long enough or wide enough, no third party are available except for Samyang manual fish eyes etc. Autofocus was notoriously slow, which didn't bother me for landscapes but did for portraits and groups.

Eventually, I returned to Nikon. Yes, its bigger and heavier, but I have all focal lengths from 12mm - 300mm covered (with a 1.5x body so really 18mm - 450mm).

The only thing that would tempt me away from Nikon now would be a digital Hasselblad and I don't earn that much...sadly

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