Myself, I'm well served as long as the lenses range from 20mm to 300mm. Besides which, as another poster already mentioned, the range of lenses only matters if you can afford them. I just liked the Minolta ergonomics and features much, much more than Nikon's. So I stayed with Minolta when I bought my Maxxum 7 (I've had a 5000i, 9000, 7xi, and now a 7), even though Minolta had not, at that time, announced a DSLR. Yes, the Nikon backward compability is a myth. But because the lenses for those cameras are the older non-AI style, none of the newer bodies would work with them, so I had to either modify the lenses or buy new ones.
I still enjoy firing a few rolls of film through my hand-me-down Nikon F bodies and the F2. Minolta definitely loads up their cameras with much feature sets than equivalently priced Canons and Nikons.īut having said that, Nikon DOES make good cameras and they provide good support for pro users, as does Canon. And I'm pretty sure that Canon USM lenses already had that ability. MF/AF clutcher which enalbes manual focusing while you are focusing automaticallyĪs far as I know, this feature only came about on the more recent lenses, such as the 24-105D lens. Minolta pays a lot of attention to camera handling and has invented a number of functions which were not found in either Nikon or Canon system: 1. Decide what your requirements are & make your choice based on those with price a secondary consideration. OK, JUST doable, but no allowance for subject or camera movement (as in wedding photography) As someone else said, for all intents & purposes any name brand camera will do a sufficiently high quality job but for certain jobs some features are essential. Even at that I'm around f16-f22 in bright sun which, even with a Vivitar 283 & GN of 110 means 10 ft max. With any film speed above 100 ISO I'm skunked if I want to balance sunlight with fill flash as the XG-M only sync's at 1/60. Having sung these praises, if I had it to do all over again I would chose Nikon, the FM2 specifically, if only for the high 1/250 sec. I love the compact size & will probably be able to purchase extra bodies, if required, for years yet to come.
Robert, In 1982 I purchased my first new XG-M, built my set of lenses up over the years, some new, some used, & later, added a second (used)body.
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