Today or tomorrow I’ll be officially breaking up with Nikon. We’ve been together for over 7 years now. It’s not easy to do, but my new love is pretty amazing. Not totally perfect but pretty damn close.

Overall, I think that Canon is innovating a bit more rapidly than Nikon and probably will continue to do so, especially when it comes to integrating video into the camera, which makes sense since they’ve been making great stand-alone video cameras for years unlike Nikon- and this matters to me because I’ve started providing some video services for … See Moreclients, and I don’t want to have to carry 2 cameras (1 stills, 1 video) to do the job if I can help it. Specifically from a still photo standpoint, the 5d2 has 21MP compared to Nikon D700′s 12MP. That’s a huge difference and it would be useful for me, especially in commercial images where we sometimes need to crop a bit and the final product is going on a bus poster for instance. Also the lenses, while apparently not quite as good as Nikon’s apparently, are also more affordable, usually by about $500 or so; and I doubt that the difference in quality is equivalent to the difference in price. Downsides are that my hands merge like a Navi tail (Avatar) with the Nikon controls, and I’ll have to retrain myself with Canon’s layout. And apparently it’s not as savvy focusing in low-light as Nikon, but again it’s probably not a big enough problem to outweigh all the advantages. If the Nikon D3S had more MP and was a bit more affordable, it could be my answer, EXCEPT that since I travel abroad a lot, it’s giant size is just way too conspicuous. I think I’ll really miss the ergonomics and the build-quality of Nikon, and they’ll probably release the camera I would want right now in early Fall (on shelves at the end of the year) but I can’t wait that long, and by then Canon will probably be announcing their replacement for the 5DM2 which will blow everyone’s mind and again be a generation ahead of what Nikon’s got out.