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Canon                         Nikon viewfinder insufficiently high-eye point for many eyeglass wearers, EOS-1v is probably the best excellent for eyeglass wearers on big expensive bodies (e.g., N90 and up) autofocus superb with ultrasonic lenses, especially with higher-end bodies where the focus and shutter release can be put on separate buttons, thus allowing MF and AF simultaneously superb with rare and expensive AF-S lenses and newest bodies; cumbersome with most AF lenses best lenses big long image-stabilized glass (100-400/4.5-5.6 IS, 300/2.8 IS, 600/4 IS)and unique pieces such as 35-350 wide angles and macro best body EOS-1V for the viewfinder, Elan 7E for the low cost, light weight, built-in flash, and eye-control focus gimmick, Rebel2000 for ultimate light weight. F100 or N80; the F5 has great featuresbut it weighs more than most medium-format cameras fill flash very good with newest bodies and EX flashes superb with D lenses macro difficult to use macro lenses with studio strobes or handheld light meter because bodies don't compute effective aperture, latest macro lenses (100, 180)include ultrasonic motors, no bellows but MP E65/2.8 lets you go beyond 1:1 conveniently; current 50mm macro lens is weak(only goes to 1:2 and lacks ultrasonic motor) superb 60, 105, and 200, lenses, all of which go to 1:1, bodies compute effective aperture, e.g., marked f/16 on the lens turns into indicated f/32 inthe viewfinder at 1:1 durability incredible with EOS-1 and EOS-3 bodies, which are impervious to rain;excellent with consumer bodies incredible with water-sealed F5 and F100;excellent with consumer bodies perspective correction lenses superb, auto aperture and both tilt and shift in 24, 45, and 90mm focal lengths two primitive lenses, 28 and 35, available with manual aperture. Shift is useful for control of architectural perspective, but lack of tilt prevents useful depth-of-field control. film transport revolutionary in speed and noise with the rubber-belt systems in the mid-range consumer bodies (e.g., Elan 7) but remember that infrared diode fogs IR film nothing special starter system [size=-1](for serious photography) Elan 7 (EOS 30 outside US), vertica lgrip, 17-35/2.8L, 50/1.4L, and 70-200 2.8L N80, 20/2.8, 28-70/2.8 AF-S, 80-200/2.8 AF-S starter system [size=-1](for one-lens travel photography) any low-end body (Rebel G is incredibly light but doesn't let you shift AF off shutter release), 24-85 USM lens or 28-135 USM image-stabilized lens. N65 or N80, 24-120 lens