POLL: What is the manufacturer of your main camera?

[Boatman]

Panasonic m43

[shreds]

Nikon D3, although hankering after a return to med format this time in digital.

[Bikermike]

Panasonic GF1 (micro 4/3). Just the right shape and size for me. Capable, but not bulky. One great advantage of m 4/3 is the compactness of the lenses. For better or worse, I am now committed to m4/3 as a system, given the range of accessories I have.

Regards, Mike

[Tringa]

Pentax K5

This is my first and only DSLR so the following is not related to a comparison with any other camera. There is also a tendency to concentrate on the good points of something you spent a lot on.

Reasons for buying it, in no particular order

Backwards compatibility - all my old K mount lenses will fit
IS in the body - the old lenses will be image stabilised and new lenses will be simpler
Good reviews - wide dynamic range, good high ISO capabilities

What I have found using it

Feels good in hand.
Everything seems to be in a convenient place.
Have not yet found myself saying, "I wish I could do ....."

Dave

[lenelg]

Two Nikons - a D5000 and a D3100. One used with a wideangle-to-normal zoom for scenery shots, and the other with a long lens for wildlife shots. (Missed too many shots on a once-in-a-lifetime safari, because I had been shooting scenery when something happened rapidly in the distance.. Buying a second body was cheaper than a "travel zoom" and gave me more range).

[Dragonking]

I have a Panasonic DMC FZ150 - a bridge camera. It does everything I want and I am aware of its limitations. If I move up into an SLR camera I would expect to buy a Panasonic G camera. This is because I could get more use out of the dedicated flash I have bought.

[Letrow]

Always Nikon

[charzes44]

Wendy (Wendles78),
I too had focussing issues with my D7000. It was ok at first, but gradually got worse and worse, not focussing and allowing me to take out of focus shots even though I had set the camera NOT to allow this. I returned it to Nikon under warranty, and now it is brilliant, snapping into spot on focus almost instantly. Perhaps your D7000 has the same problem that mine did.

[darkslide]

I use Nikon. I've always used Nikon. Why?

Well, when I was 16 and got a Saturday job in a small photographic shop, they were Nikon dealers. I managed to buy new what was one of the last new Nikon F (Apollo) in 1974. Over the years I've added to the list of lenses, and now, even with my digital bodies I can use any of the lens I own, some dating back to the late sixties.

I like this 'backwards' compatibility and I also like the quality of the optics (aside from the dog they called the 43-86 zoom).

One possibly more important factor (as I've mentioned recently in another thread) is the ergonomics - I find most Nikon hardware tends to feel 'right' in my hands. I'm fully prepared to accept that there is better - just never come across it

I'm sure Canon are very good too - I've just never tried them.

[tbob]

Nikon D700.

Nikon because I had to make a decision in 1986 when I bought an SLR. I had a Praktica (East German camera) and some Pentax lenses; as it was a Pentax mount camera, but lost everything when i rolled a canoe in some rapids in 1976. I was a poor university student at the time so had to wait until i finished Vet school to get another camera.

[geordie01]

Pentax K-r and K110D
Always used Pentax gear and all my old lenses fit on the digi bodies with i s in the K-r may get a K5 just waiting to see if they bring out a ff body

[xpatUSA]

Have recently acquired a Sigma SD9 for my bench-top macro work and relegated the Nikon D50 to the occasional point-and-shoot duty.

Ted