I have been doing a lot of looking at both the Canon XTi and the new
Nikon D40X - I have no lens carryover worries since I still have my
Canon A1/lenses, but I do admit a definite loyalty to Canon. I have
been shooting with the office's Nikon 8700 and while I've gotten some
very good things with it, I find it slow, not intuitive as far as
manual settings and takes a very long time to wake up which meant a
lot of lost shots. AND it's been in the shop three times in the past
three years because it will, for whatever reason, decide it won't
seat the memory card.
I checked out Consumers Report and they have the Nikon D40x picked as
the best buy even though they rate both cameras equally. Ritz camera
is heavily pushing the Nikon by claiming that the lenses for the
Nikon are less expensive than the Canon lenses. I played with both
of them and I found the Canon can process multiple shots much more
quickly than the Nikon (the Canon handled about 4 shots/second as
opposed to maybe 2 shots/second that the Nikon did) and that can mean
the difference between a great shot and a missed shot.
Regardless of which you go with, you are going to be investing around
$1000 between the camera, an additional long lens and and a
high-speed memory card (don't pick one up at Office Depot). You can
put together some not-too-shabby deals if you take the time too do
the research on the internet.
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Melanie Lynch
Annapolis, MD |