Cameras

I'm submerged in work at the moment and under a little bit of stress as a result, so there's probably no better time for me to start whining about the camera manufacturers.

I'm not going to tear into the obvious problem at the moment which is of course the price of kit. The manufacturers will argue they're going to have to re-invest in new factories as a result of the Japanese earthquake.

Instead I'm going to ask how it is that Canaon can make such a right roayl b**ls up of producing a top of the range sports camera.

Now I'm not a Nikon man. I've been loyal to canon since I came to digital photography some years ago now. I'm the proud owner of a couple of EOS1D Mark ll's that still happen to be Canons finest pro sports cameras.

I tried a 1d Mark lll and ended up sending it back as it failed to track birds in flight, or virtually anything else that moved for that matter. The Mark IV was an improvement which gave a glimmer of hope. It was the final straw the other daythough when I decided to check out the sensor performance of the Canons against the Nikons only to discover the low light performance of the Nikons along with the dynamic range just wipes the floor with the Canons.

If I want to upgrade my kit to be bale to take photographs in a wider range of conditions I'm now faced with having to buy Nikon instead of Canon which means spending about £15k on lenses which is completely out of the question.

Come on Canon get yer finger out and give us loyal users something we'll be proud to use rather than apologise for as most 1d Mark lll users end up doing.