In article <4es5vj$drp@info.curtin.edu.au>, nick@cs.curtin.edu.au says...

>I'm looking at purchasing an F4 or EOS1 and would like
>to know if there are any online *independent* reviews
>of either of these camera bodies and their lenses.
>Without wanting to start any brand wars here, it seems
>to me that after reading the brochures and talking to
>unfortunately brand-dedicated sales people, Nikkon has
>the better build/quality but Cannon has a better auto-
>focussing system. This makes it difficult to choose
>if you are like me and like both landscape and
>sports/nature photography.

Read Bob Atkin's post (and your own), to which I would add
that, in my opinion, if you are going to purchase a wide
range of lenses at all price levels, Nikkor lenses have a
higher overall optical quality standard, particularly in
the bottom and middle price ranges, than in the Canon
lens line where there appears to be more variation in
quality. You may find the following interesting:

D. Ruether's "SUBJECTIVE Lens Evaluations (Mostly Nikkors)",
which includes a listing of all Nikon SLR lenses ever made (with a
subjective evaluation of many of them, a general description of Nikkor
lens performance characteristics by lens-type groups, and comments on
particular lenses when the general descriptions plus the subjective
evaluation numbers are not sufficient to describe performance),
can be found at these sites:
-- Jan-jaap Aue: (nice text format)
http://www.phys.rug.nl/mk/people/aue/nikon/david.html
-- Bo-Ming Tong: (go to end of long article, plain text format)
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/people/bmtong/photo/nikon.faq
-- Quang-Tuan Luong: (plain text format)
http://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/~qtluong/photography/35mm/nikon-neuman
-- Niklas Nikitin: (nice table format)
http://www.cs.hks.se/~nicke/private/photo/david.html

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