OK, so Canon won, and everybody is happy. The big cahoona is laid, and I'm on the couch nipping off with all my Nikon glass on the table in mexican dip.
Ask yourself what development, or where, growth has come in the (!) photographic field. Is it all of a sudden 100.000 new pro-shooters in your town ?
I belive pictures is all about some form of magic. A picture of your cat might be a magical one, or it might not. This magic conception of photography isn't somthing that many people care about. Frankly, i'd say roughly 75% of all new 300D owners, bought their camera for documentation or entertainment, -and that's fine, no problem.
The point is, for me, that I don't need all this new stuff all the time, I really can't see the need for it. I own a film-slr, and it does what I ask, and now I own a digital, and of it I don't ask the same as from the film-slr. If you, or shutterbug magazine, or somebody ealse, can point out what need it is I will be having before the end of 2004, that will make me jump to Canon, please do.
Eventually, people will loose intrest in digital photography, and I'd say they already lost intrest in the old fashioned photography. The 300D owners will be hopping around with a mobile with the same resolution in 2007 anyway, probably from Nokia or some other crazy company (i bet it's gonna have a Sony CCD, maybe the, then, acient ICX456).
Nikon has NEVER been about beeing the best selling camera brand, the brand that satisfies you when you need it, it has concistenly been about photography, not about gizmos, like the stinkin Canon line of puny cameras (think about it, why does the A70, a highly praised digital camera, have a mirror around the lcd, -it's all about style).
I bought my digital today, and i could have bought a sony or an olympus or some other brand, and it would have been better than the 5400 i got today, and it would have been cheaper. But I, strangely, support this really dumb company who isn't listening to all the computer-gizmo people out there with their 300D's and 25-400 lenses.
Canon might also be a company that exsists on basis of creating good photography, but their new owners (read; users) are NOT people who care to continue, and develop what has happened within photography as long as it has exsisted. Of course there are exceptions, all I am saying is that I'm glad that there are the not-so-perfect and stupid companies out there.
Another aspect of this is time. Who knows how long it is since the D1 was released. I still know people who use it, -they say it was just released. It's still doing what it was supposed to do. Both the professionals I know, and all other Nikon owners, aren't really intrested in buying a new camera every year, they are more into doing photography.
One good example where this is going, is the upcomming review of the D2H by Phil Askey. Phil is a prior computer-programmer, and in no position to say anything about actually working with the D2H, except for how mutch resolution it has, and how mutch noise it has, and how it will do in the market. It will fail, and it will do so with pride. And all the geeks will read about it, and then there will be some stupid people buying it anyway, because it is a leap forward for them, and continues some thing they've already invested a lot of time in, learning a system, and lenses, and other gear, to know. In stead of working out the new camera and the new lenses, they still probably bring out a couple of MF lenses now and then, and ... god they are stupid the whole bunch of them.
In basic, whenever someone asks Nikon for a new camera model, they tell the person; why are you asking, stupid, go out and play, improve on yourself before asking us for help.
Camera's have never been able to take pictures anyway.
johanG.
) So stop rushing off with wild assumptions and keep enjoying those cameras .
