What Will It Take To Get Me To Switch From Canon To Nikon Digital Cameras?

If you ever take one of my classes or workshops, the first thing I will tell you is that it really doesn’t matter what brand of camera you have.

I currently shoot Canon Digital SLR cameras and have since the days of film cameras. I have a significant holding in Canon L Series lenses and accessories.

Things have changed in the past 5 years with digital cameras. I find myself doing something that I never thought I would do in the film world. I buy a new camera body every two years. I have found that this is the point where the camera has some residual value (50-60%) on the used market and is still is in demand since only one update has been released. If a digital slr camera has been replaced by more than one update in the model line, the value of the camera body is only about 25-50% of the original price.

Because of this, I have never been able to bring myself to spend $5000-8000 dollars on a digital camera body, like the flagship Nikon or Canon cameras. Unfortunately, if you want a full frame sensor in a digital slr body, you are pretty much in this price range.

The only thing I miss about shooting film is a full frame. It is my only significant complaint about professional digital cameras. Everything else about digital is better than film.

What will it take for me to switch from Canon to Nikon? The first company to release a digital slr camera with a full frame sensor that is less than $2000 will get my future business. I am in a position where I need to sell a Canon body (or accept that it will have virtually no residual value). If Canon does it first, I will stay with Canon. If Nikon does it first, I will sell all my holdings in Canon and switch.

That’s what it will get me to switch from Canon to Nikon; a camera with a full frame sensor that cost less than 2 grand. Bring it on Nikon. Make me a switcher.

Tags: Canon vs Nikon, digital slr, switching, used cameras