Would you buy a "Canikon" branded camera?

Same here, owned a number of cameras over the past 40 years and that includes a list of digitals over the past 9 of those 40. I'd buy any camera that would scratch a particular itch I'd have at any one moment.

It's not just brand loyalism, it's utter stupidity. It's ignoring the fact that the bits and pieces of all of those brands actually roll of the same Chinese assembly lines. It's also ignoring the fact that although a Mercedes SLS roadster of a quarter of a million Euros is a great car, this does not imply the cute little A-Class of €26K may not be better than the BMW-1 series which is similarly priced.

To put it differently: just because Canon and Nikon make some of the very best, indestructable, awesome DSLRs available for any amount of money today, this does not prove one bloody thing about the quality of their flimsy, plasticky consumer DSLRs versus the flimsy, plasticky comsumer DSLRs of other brands.

People tend to fall for marketing tricks - branding is the biggest of those.

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