Originally posted by lesmore49 Not shooting you down. I have Pentax, Canon, Leica, Mamiya, Yashicamat, Zeiss-Ikon, etc.....but I've accumulated them over 40 years and I only have two systems...one a medium format film (Mamiya) and the other digital dslr/film slr...Pentax.
I'm talking about those...many new to photography...say 3-5 years or so...that for example, started out with Sony, then have Canon...then Nikon comes out with something new and they're convinced that this new Nikon is the way to go...so they dump their Canon 60D, Canon wide angle, zoom, telephoto zoom, 50 Macro, 430 flash and replace it after having it only for a year or so, with the latest Nikon D7000 and Nikon equivalent lenses and flash to the Canon equipment they just dumped...at a significant loss.
In many cases they haven't learned how to use the fine Canon equipt...they just dumped, thinking that somehow the Nikon stuff will make them a better photographer.
Thats ok I put myself 'out there' to be shot!
I totally understand the 'different camera make won't fix the lack of skill' idea. And I agree, but I do think that people changing brands is probably more about 'the way we are today'
To me it was about getting a camera that felt right, I've had the Olympus e420, I loved it, but it was too small, then came the Canon 450D, again, a great camera but too plastic, then the Pentax K7, nicely built and it had the 'use me' factor but the ISO and lens cost was'nt right. Now I have the Nikon D300s, built like a tank, and the 'extras' are affordable.
So I have ended up with this Nikon because it has the build quality I desire, the lenses and flashes etc are affordable to me, and it's easy to work with.
If the K7 didnt have the ISO issue and the primes were within my reach I would have stayed with Pentax. I'd certainly consider a return in the future.
All the DSLRs I have owned have produced excellent images, the method I used to get them may have been tweaked for each brand, i.e. low ISO or manual focus, but as I said earlier I'm still learning, I know now that high ISO (to me anyway) is over rated so if I went back to a K7, for example, It would not be the percieved issue it was for me last year. I used manual focus a lot with the K7 (A series lenses), but with the D300s I have'nt felt the need.