Nikon SLR recommendation

flavio81 said:

It's obvious. The Nikon F5 (1996) uses the push-button/dial user interface, particularly "press mode button, rotate dial to change mode". This kind of interface, on a professional camera, appeared first in the Canon EOS 1 of 1989.

Manufacturers are influentied by others, what's the outrage about that?

BTW Nikon, during the 50s to early 80s, was usually a traditional, conservative company, not a highly innovative company. Pentax released a SLR (and SLR lenses) much earlier than Nikon. Pentax also released an electronic AE SLR before Nikon. Everybody "copied" Olympus after the release of the OM-1, the market went to more compact cameras and lenses (IMO, for worse). Nikon "copied" Minolta when making their first fully-featured AF system for the F-501 and F4 cameras.

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Chan Tran said:

Thanks for answering questions addressed to me! I am a Nikon fan boy and very much dislike Canon but I do give credit where it's due.

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flavio81 said:

I was defending your point of view.

BTW i'm a Canon fanboy, Pentax fanboy and Nikon fanboy, in that order. But i have more Nikon cameras (5) than any other brand so...

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MartinCrabtree said:

It was a request not an attack requiring no defense. Damn guys lighten up.

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