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is Canon better/more popular than Nikon?
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<blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 638429" data-attributes="member: 9240"><p>Haven't read the full post but somewhere on here in early 2016 I posted a thread about how my brother, a Canon Pro rep, offered to give me all his personal Canon gear on "permanent loan" as an incentive to get me to switch. This included two 1D's and a 7D plus the full suite of pro lenses he used as a newspaper photographer, figuring I could buy what I wanted as I chose to and sold off my stuff. The offer came just as I'd told myself that I was completely settled on my Nikon gear, happy as a pig with the new D500 announcement. I had two backpacks of his gear in my house for about a month and I'll tell you this - they're both great, and for a serious amateur/semi-pro like me one was no better than the other. They're just different, and I had no desire to spend time relearning menus, buttons, focus & zoom ring positions and directions, etc., so they all went back with a thanks but no thanks.</p><p></p><p>Where Canon wins, and should, is in their professional services. Before he worked for them my brother shot Canon at the Star Ledger. Why Canon? Because when the Ledger used Nikon and something went wrong all they got were excuses and no answers. This is something I've heard independently from a number of pro shooters, most recently last month when I ran into a news photographer at a winery in the Finger Lakes. Nikon dropped the ball there when it counted and they opened the door to the drubbing they're getting in the pro market. And when folks like us look at pros shooting at events and see a sea of white glass it can't help but make you wonder why and start leaning in that direction. Canon is committed to crushing Nikon and that's a problem for those of us using it, but until they give up the ghost (I don't think they will) I'll keep shooting them. It's hard to fight from behind, and in the internet age every mishap and misstep is amplified and exaggerated immediately, so Nikon can't afford any.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BackdoorArts, post: 638429, member: 9240"] Haven't read the full post but somewhere on here in early 2016 I posted a thread about how my brother, a Canon Pro rep, offered to give me all his personal Canon gear on "permanent loan" as an incentive to get me to switch. This included two 1D's and a 7D plus the full suite of pro lenses he used as a newspaper photographer, figuring I could buy what I wanted as I chose to and sold off my stuff. The offer came just as I'd told myself that I was completely settled on my Nikon gear, happy as a pig with the new D500 announcement. I had two backpacks of his gear in my house for about a month and I'll tell you this - they're both great, and for a serious amateur/semi-pro like me one was no better than the other. They're just different, and I had no desire to spend time relearning menus, buttons, focus & zoom ring positions and directions, etc., so they all went back with a thanks but no thanks. Where Canon wins, and should, is in their professional services. Before he worked for them my brother shot Canon at the Star Ledger. Why Canon? Because when the Ledger used Nikon and something went wrong all they got were excuses and no answers. This is something I've heard independently from a number of pro shooters, most recently last month when I ran into a news photographer at a winery in the Finger Lakes. Nikon dropped the ball there when it counted and they opened the door to the drubbing they're getting in the pro market. And when folks like us look at pros shooting at events and see a sea of white glass it can't help but make you wonder why and start leaning in that direction. Canon is committed to crushing Nikon and that's a problem for those of us using it, but until they give up the ghost (I don't think they will) I'll keep shooting them. It's hard to fight from behind, and in the internet age every mishap and misstep is amplified and exaggerated immediately, so Nikon can't afford any. [/QUOTE]
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