Canon? Honestly just need some professional opinions on canons?

I'm a sophomore photography student and i have a nikon but I've used a canon before and just like the quality better, so i just need suggestions

Use what YOU are comfortable with and gives you the best results. Honestly, Canon or Nikon are no better than the other. You can get different OPINIONS all day long, but that is all they are.

If you already have Nikon's, then stick with that system

You will certainly not gain any advantage when it comes to sensor performance by switching camera brands

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And the cost of replacing all the Nikkor lenses can be substantial. I know, because in the early 1990's I moved from Canon to Nikon after my old trusty Canon cameras with FD and FL lenses became obsolete.

I do not know how you measured the quality of the Nikon and Canon cameras, but as a person who currently uses my Nikon's and some of my clients Canon's, there's really no difference except in sensor performance.

And that I don't have to spend as much time in the Nikon cameras menu as I do with Canon cameras since all the changes I make (ISO, resolution, white balance, shooting mode and EV modifications) are done using various buttons on the camera

Most of my pro friends who own their own equipment have Nikon's and two of them moved from Canon to Nikon when the Nikon D3 was introduced at the China Olympics.

The pros I know who are staffers, use the cameras supplied to them by their employer and most (but not all) supply Canon cameras.

In the end, cameras and lenses are just tools There's no reason to sell all your Craftsman tools to by Snap-On or Mac tools The tool is only as good as the craftsman.

As a student, you will be using some kind of entry level dSLR to keep your costs down and as you have the money to budget for more equipment, it makes more sense to keep what you have and add glass as you can budget for it than take a loss and switch systems.

The differences are pretty small until you get to the really high end cameras. The majority of world press photographers shoot Canon, with Nikon coming in second. Canon dominates sports photography, while I think Nikon does a bit better with the fashion photographers and the like. But part of that is because decades ago, these companies got into certain niches and that has propagated through the generations.

Both cameras are excellent. You may be more tuned to one over the other, but side by side for 95+% of photos you would not be able to tell the difference.

Yeah, it's all been said by guys with Way more time in the field than me. If you know how to use a camera, you can use any camera. The two are so close together it's not really worth worrying about. I'm a Canon guy simply because when I first got into this as a hobby, the salesman talked me into a Canon and I haven't switched.

If you mean dSLR's, the difference between the two is simply control layout. The controls themselves are the same. Nikon has most everything under your fingertips while Canon will make you enter the menu once in a while. It's a matter of preference or simply getting used to if you already have the camera.

If you mean picture quality, then there's absolutely no difference because that depends mostly on your skill.

My opinion is that they are great. I have always used them and never had a problem.

Canon and Nikon make comparable cameras of comparable quality.

I'd say if you have a Nikon - then stick with that. There's no reason you can't get just as good quality images. If you can't, the problem is you, not the camera.

I use a Canon DSLR, but there's absolutely nothing wrong with Nikon DSLRs, or any other DSLR for that matter. A camera is just a tool - in the right hands, the brand is irrelevant.