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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RandyDSok" data-source="post: 180458" data-attributes="member: 201">The camera brand battle has been going on longer than I've been around. Most of the professionals will say that if you go Canon, you have access to the largest amount of quality lenses anywhere. Others in the field mention how Canon is so big and entrenched, that they are slow to innovate... and these tend to go with Nikon since they probably produce the second largest amount of quality lenses. So it seems it's what lenses each have available to them that is a big part of why they pick the brand they do and what features come in right after that. Sony would probably still come in third ( I've been out of keeping up with this market for a while so, may be old info ) and the reason most often praised is their sensors are second to none. Of course, Sony doesn't have near the amount of lens to choose from as the other two, so their audience is more niche. I suspect that Panasonic Lumix still falls about forth in the list having excellent quality and a lot of features... their only complaint I've often seen is the limited number of available lenses. Unless you are a pro, the number of lenses or some other feature set is probably not going to matter as much. The only thing that matters is the potential quality of the shot you can get with a good enough camera. While I have gotten lucky with some of my shots certainly, my best shots are usually the ones I've planned out well by searching the locations I have around me, looking for the time of day so I get the lighting I'd like to achieve and then the composition of the shot itself. On that last one, the composition, I will always try to take a wider angle shot than I'm after and then I can crop into the actual shot I want. I tend to go for something about 1/4 of the frame more than I'm after so I can level the pic if I missed that or get the subject into just the right place in frame. There have been numerous times I had one composition in mind as I was taking the shot and when processing it, found another composition that I liked more. Having more in frame during a shoot gives you a lot more options when processing.</blockquote>

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