Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/12/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]vick.ko@sympatico.ca wrote: > Bingo! Thank you Allen. > > Last thing I want to be doing is buying more lenses. I do have a few AI > lenses. > > But I understand due to body thicknesses, the Nikon can never take Leica > glass. The Canon can take Leica glass with the adapter. > > Is that so? Yes...and the Canon can take Nikon with the adapter. If you already have Nikon glass get the D200, you will not be unhappy you did. I really like that camera. In almost everyway it is a great body. One thing I really like that it has are 5 preset custom white balances. VERY nice. Also the D200 screen is very nice for manual focus...the Canon's screens are not, to say the least. Following is what I wrote to the camera club I am VP of after using the D200 for a week...for whatever it is worth: Well...as most of you know I have been shooting Canon gear for most of my career. I started off with a Canon A1, then went to the new F1. In Atlanta I switched to Nikon and shot FM2, F3, F4, n8008. Then went back to EOS after I was handed one at Super Bowl 28 to play with. Anyway the past few days I have been playing with Robin's D200, giving it a work through since so many people in the nikon camp rave about this camera. Well...... For what that camera costs it is amazing. It is worth far more that a $1350 camera! It has great AF response, and this is using the old 80-200, not the new AFS version. The color is great, I LOVE the fact you can store 5 custom white balance presets. The files are very clean, they do get somewhat noisy at 1000 and above, especially when you are used to Canon's almost perfect high ISO files. The camera fits well in my hands and the viewfinder is quite bright and it manual focuses very easily with my old Nikkor 300 2.8 EDIF. The meter is dead on accurate. In addition to this camera I also have a D50...which is a sleeper camera, IMHO. That little sub $500 camera is really a joy to shoot with. I love its size, it has 1600 ISO that is almost as good as my EOS 1DII has, but it only weighs about as much as a Leica M....... I think now to say one system is better than another is frivolous when comparing the cameras themselves. I think you need to look beyond the cameras and at the whole system and what you want to shoot....for me Canon is still the best fit as they have full frame sensors and I can get wider lens coverage, and they also have the tilt AND shift lenses that I want. Oh well just my 2 cents for what ever that is worth. -- Harrison McClary Harrison McClary Photography harrison@mcclary.net http://www.mcclary.net ImageStockSouth - Stock Photography http://www.imagestocksouth.com Tobacco Road: Personal Blog: http://web.mac.com/whmcclary/iWeb/tobacco-road/Blog/Blog.html