What we all need to remember is that the value of a system only extends out to what each of us need in a system.
This is very true. The value of a system
for you is what is most important. I think that discussions like these (while some idiots like to trivialize them) are actually important for some to clarify what their values in fact are, and choose the system whose strengths (in both purchase price and options) lie with their needs. For instance, if I were a landscape photographer looking to upgrade right now, I would probably go with the Nikon D3x and 14 mm.
So, for Jack, the 50D and macro lens makes the perfect system, but this doesn't mean it's the perfect system for every shooter...or even most shooters.
Well, very true again. I would say for any shooter looking for reach, in either macro or (really, most especially) super telephoto the Canon system is by far the better value with by far the greater options. As an overall system it has to be viewed as the same. For the dedicated landscape photographer doing very large prints, none of this matters, and the Nikon D3x and 14-24 mm and 24-70 mm would be the best value for even money.
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Okaaay, so I'm just gonna go ahead an PLONK your messages from now on (google it), but I just thought I'd throw up three quick points.
You are once again guilty of your own accusation, making this personal while saying not one single thing relevant to the actual topic.
1) Your wonderfully obvious insecurity as a man just hangs in the air like a thick fog.
No, actually, if we were in the same room as men, you would quickly find how very secure I am of myself and you would likewise quickly find yourself living up to your own self-chosen epithet "boy" by comparison.
2) All psychotic photog posters are the same (He was wrong too; didn't take into account the large buffer)
3) You = Exhibit #154,124,546,489 of this theroy.
Again, you live up to your own accusations. I have the confidence to sign my real name, and I honestly try to stick to the topic:
value in a camera system. You talk trash from behind a fake name, because you are a cowardly bitch by nature, and your infantile personal attacks are what de-rail this thread topic.
Do you have anything of real use to say here (other than admitting I was right, as before), or can you only prove how cowardly you are? In what way do you feel attacking me from the shadows, under a fake name, proves your own self-confidence? In what way do you believe being guilty of your own accusations proves any sort of point here, other than the shape of your head?
If you can show me another system profile of either macrophotography, or super telephotography, that provides better quality than the Canon system for equal-to or less cost, then you would be making a valuable contribution to this thread topic. It has been shown that Nikon can provide marginally better quality than Canon at equal cost in super-wide photography. I believe these kinds of discussion can be valuable to hash-out.
Do you have something valuable to contribute? Because, as it is, you are just a bozo sticking his tongue out, which is pretty lame by any standard.
Jack