Thinking about.....

[Jon Krol]

Hi all, I just found this forum and have a question. I currently have an FD system that includes a F-1N, motordrive and several Canon FD lenses, all primes and telephotos. All the gear is in very good, near mint condition. I'm tempted to sell my gear to finance the purchase of a 10D. My friend whom is a Nikon guy has a D100 and that camera is amazing. I had read reviews of the D60 and felt it was inferior to the D100. I do like Canon cameras though and now that the 10D has come out and at such an attractive price I'm giving some thought to switching to digital. Is it time? My F-1N is a beautiful camera and I love it but the digital siren is bekoning to me. What say you folk? Thanks for your replies.

[Jon Borcik]

The selling factors for me for the Canon 10D over the Nikon D100 were:

- Digital NOISE
- Price
- Quality

The biggest was Digital NOISE. From all the reports I have read, the Canon 10D is much better at ever ISO. The D100 doesn't even have an ISO 100 setting.

A friend of mine is a big Nikon user. He purchased the D100 and sold it two months later... then purchased the D1H. Now he is seriously looking at dumping all his Nikon gear for the 1DS.

:)

[ChrisNardone]

My rule of thumb is fight the urge to upgrade. Sooner or later you won't be able to resist, but the longer you wait, the more likely the technology will get better/cheaper. This is actully my computer rule, but it seems to apply to just about everything these days.

[CyberDyneSystems]

The 10D is the camera you have been waiting for. :D

[Jon Krol]

Thanks for you comments. I am very attracted to the ease of digital, especially the 10D, but the thing I am most concerned about is the cost of "EF" glass. My Canon FD lenes, while not "L" lenses, are very sharp. I have several primes and a few telephotos and to replace them with "EF" equivilants will be cost prohibitive. Knowing that, I would have to settle for a couple of zooms. I guess in the most common ranges such as 28-80 and 80-200mm. Also because of cost, I would probably purchase 3rd party lenses. I recall the quaility issues with 3rd party zooms from the early 80's and the speed of them were also an issue. I would hate to go backwards in lens quality in order to have a real convienient camera to use. But, sometimes you can't have all you want. Thanks all.

[Belmondo]

Jon:
Unfortunately, there's no painless way to make the transition, but you really should do it now and not wait. I don't know if this is a reasonable analogy or not, but suppose you were still using DOS while waiting for a changeover to Windows to be cost-effective? You're just losing ground.

I, too, have a small fortune in FD-mount lenses, and you're going to see some of them on ebay in the near future.

My only criteria for getting away from film altogether was for someone (hopefully Canon) to offer a reasonably priced digital SLR. The EOS-10D fills that bill handily.

Do it!

Tom

[scottbergerphoto]

I followed the D100 forum on www.Nikokians.org for about six months before deciding to buy the 10D. There have been countless complaints about the colors produced by the D100 and people spending days trying to calibrate their camera and uploading custom curves to get a decent picture. My 10D produces colors that are rich and accurate both shot Raw and Fine Jpeg. Also, the LCD on the D100 is fairly useless in terms of image quality. My 2 cents.

[justme_dc]

I sold all my FD gear along with my T90 "tank" and various A series bodies to finance my leap into the EOS film system. Thankfully I did it in the early 90's when FD gear still had some demand. Sometimes I miss my old gear but progress is inevitable. I have recently added digital to my arsenal and the transition has been a little rough (okay a lot rough) but I see the benifits of digital over film in a studio/ business setting. The benifits are equally if not more compelling from the hobbist's point of view. It is a big leap but I think it'll be worth it in the end. I hope you don't lose your shirt when you go to sell that great FD gear.

[Jon Krol]

Thanks again everyone. My F-1N is just about as mint as one can get. I hope to get a good price for it. It has the more desireable AE finder along with an eye cup which also seems to fetch a good price, when sold seperately anyway. I have estimated, using the average price these items have sold for on Ebay, I could get up to 2 to 2500 for the items if sold individually. That might get the camera and two fairly good zooms. I haven't followed the EF lens prices because I have never needed them. Are there any opinions out there as to which non Canon lens companies to avoid? Thanks again for all of your help and information. One other question. What does the Big Ed adapter supply to the camera? Thanks.

[Littlebike]

I have two friends who are professional photographers working for a MSU and they both use D100.

When I asked them about about going Digital SLR they asked me if I already owned any autofocus glass. I responded with, No. They then told me to go get the EOS 10D.

Thye are in bed with Nikon because they already own a ton of Nikon glass, but if they were in the market and were starting from scratch they would go with Canon.

That was enough for me.