GN Photography adds a Canon!

It's not usually a big deal with a photographer gets a new camera. It's like a builder getting a new hammer or saw, or a nurse getting a new stethoscope. But when switching from Nikon to Canon...that's a big deal. I guess it would be like Tiger Woods switching to left-handed golf clubs or Phil Mickelson switching to right-handed clubs. Now that would be a big deal! After all, everything on the camera does work backwards from a Nikon. (Disclaimer: I probably shouldn't have compared us to Tiger or Phil, but I just picked those two guys because if I had picked some young punk on the tour that hadn't won anything and no one had heard of, my golf analogy would've been worthless. And you know how I love golf analogies...LOL!)

I digress. So a couple weeks ago we added a Canon 5D to our collection of Nikon cameras. Our goal is to simply find out which one we prefer, and then determine if we should switch to Canon altogether, stay with Nikon, or use both.

It sat lonely on the shelf, in the box, for a couple weeks. We were too busy. Finally, I played around the house with it a little bit at Christmas, but never had the opportunity to do a real shoot until a couple days ago in Charleston, SC, while we were visiting Joy's family for Christmas. And here's what we got...










My initial thoughts are that I'm not crazy about the Canon body or the functionality. Obviously, that's partially due to the fact that I'm used to something else and there's a natural learning curve. BUT, when it comes to the image quality straight out of the camera, the Canon wins hands down.

We've got another shoot in a few hours and I can't wait to see how it does again!