I'll never sell it. Canon seems to offer more primes, and update them more often. They have USM primes. Nikon has just the AF-S 50mm, and their teles/super teles.
Something that might be a parallel to your F100 would be an EOS 3, although the EOS 3 is made of plastic(damn good plastic though). The F100 and the EOS 3 are at about the same product level, you should also try the EOS 1v, which is the highest model, its really durable and its my next camera.
A lot of the prime lens "updating" carried out by the major manufacturers is simply to make them easier/chaper to produce.
In Nikon's case, many AI/AIS versions are optically better than their AF equivalents.
But if you want he latest bells & whistles at all costs, Canon is the way to go...
;-)
The bad thing about Nikon primes, and on the wide end is that they're too slow. F2.8? Give me a break! Canon provides several at F1.4, F1.8, and on the standard focal length F1.2 even. What is the point of having a wide prime at F2.8?!? A faster aperture means brighter view finder, better/faster focus lock. For wide fast primes Canon is the way to go.
The Nikons and Canons really seem to be able to do the same things, but Nikon doesn't have a 24 or 35 mm f/1.4.
Also, AF points don't bother me. I just focus at the center and recompose, it seems to be faster. Alas, perception is just that, so it isn't necessarily the truth.
The real question is whether those super-fast lenses, which look great in catalogues, are actually able to form a decent image...
Leica & Zeiss have good fast wides, but some of the other brands discussed here are heavily marketing-oriented.
BTW, Nikon does have a non AF 35mm f/1.4
The feature set of the EOS 3 is similar to the F100 (which I love), but the quality of construction is nowhere near as good. It has a plastic body, not magnesium like the F100. I, too, find the EOS controls foreign and awkward, though one can learn to use anything if one tries hard enough. By the way, I understand your yen for fast wide primes, 35mm f1.4, 24mm f1.4, etc. I can't afford them anyway, so why worry. Besides, they're much larger and heavier than their slower cousins. I don't mind the size and weight sometimes, but the 85mm f1.2L feels like a bowling ball on the front of most EOS bodies. For my money, I'll shoot the f2.0 and 2.8 and be happy.
So are the Leicas and Zeiss lenses (heavily marketed) because many of those are dogs, idealized, and romanticised. Conversely, and for example, the Canon 35L, 85L and 135L are no less great then the best German lenses, with the exception in some cases of edge sharpness, but this is a little nit.
And oftne the German lenses are say 5% better but cost 200% or more. Talk about marketing over objectivity. And to add insult, many of those German "fast" primes are NOT.
Doing the Lock-Focus-Recompose dance is perhaps the worse [sic] thing one can do when shooting street and fast apertures.
So are the Leicas and Zeiss lenses (heavily marketed) because many of those are dogs, idealized, and romanticised. Conversely, and for example, the Canon 35L, 85L and 135L are no less great then the best German lenses, with the exception in some cases of edge sharpness, but this is a little nit.
And oftne the German lenses are say 5% better but cost 200% or more. Talk about marketing over objectivity. And to add insult, many of those German "fast" primes are NOT.
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