I got
into photographing a long time ago. My first camera was
a beautiful Asashi Pentax SP (Spotmatic.) My parents
gave it to me just a few days before I took off for my
first trip to Scandinavia completely at my own. This was
almost 40 years ago. The camera also was a present to
motivate me for the photographic study that I had just
had started a few months before. This all with the
intention to learn more about photographing, developing
my own film and filming as well. All was still mainly
done in black and white in those days. I was completely
under the spell of making pictures of birds and wildlife
for my entire life, so a little dream came through.
Sadly, I had to stop the photographic study already
after almost 2 years because of army duties, and I still
regret it to this day.
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I liked the Spotmatic very much, and my short fingers
could handle this very nice little camera perfectly. When
the Spotmatic got really old, I changed to the Pentax MX
series. which I bought tax-free in the army. The good results I had obtained with the lovely Spotmatic helped
me to stay loyal to Pentax. I even bought a second
body and many more lenses. In the mid eighties after the Pentaxes had been used very intensively for many years their best time was over. Most of our
pictures were made close to water, and the moist environment
of the outdoors had been detrimental to the bodies and
lenses over the years. In 1995 I switched to Canon.
The choice was difficult. It became a fight between Nikon
and Canon. Nikon has the wonderful option of using all their old
lenses on newer cameras, but because we had to buy
everything new, it was not important for our choice. There
were two main reasons why we finally chose Canon: Firstly,
we liked the speed of the brand new AF system more than any other
camera that we tried during our research in buying. Secondly the technical difference between the
hightech electronica for the auto focus in the lenses from Canon and
body from Nikon let us chose for Canon too.
This is exactly how we got involved with Canon. We also needed a
good camera to picturize our fly fishing trips and close
encounters with wildlife
during our outdoor experiences. We started with the EOS 5 as
our new generation of cameras, and we were amazed about the
AF results. We never had used an automatic AF before, and we had a
wonderful test in the Newfoundland wilderness. This was our
first intensive test with the new powerful AF system, and we were hooked straight
away. After using the EOS 5 with great results we also bought an EOS 1 and EOS
1n. The EOS
3 has been in mind, but then the first digital bodies already came on the market
as well. It was
confusing at first, and prices where very unstable, so we tried the G2 at first
and we were so amazed that we bought a EOS 10D as our first digital SLR.
Now, more then 15 years later, I can proudly say that we have
made the right choice in Canon, and have no regret. The
Canon service has been superb, and the price of Canon
equipment stays very stable, with excellent options for buying
high quality second hand material (lenses) as well.a
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