The Camera I wish Nikon would build

I use a Nikon DSLR. That’s not an ideological statement, it’s just a fact. Neither of the major manufacturers is as far ahead of the other as Apple is ahead of all other consumer goods companies anywhere.

But I have a Nikon body, Nikon lenses, and unless something really revolutionary comes up, I’m not likely to switch.

What I and many other Nikon shooters want, however is not the Nikon COOLPIX A 16.2 MP Digital Camera with 28mm f/2.8 Lens (Black), which on its own appears to be a brilliant camera.

It has the feature that serious shooters want to see in a camera – a large sensor, the same one typically seen in Nikon’s DX-format DSLRs.

It’s a definite improvement over the Nikon 1 series, the newest model of which is the Nikon 1 J3 14.2 MP HD Digital Camera with 10-30mm VR 1 NIKKOR Lens (Black), which have much smaller sensors more suited to a point-and-shoot, but which feature their own line of interchangeable lenses.

While the Nikon 1 series also looks like a good camera taken on it’s own, both cameras fail in the regard that makes a photographer a Nikon shooter or a Canon shooter — interoperability with the owner’s existing collection of lenses.

Canon got it right with the Canon EOS M 18.0 MP Compact Systems Camera with 3.0-Inch LCD and EF-M18-55mm IS STM Lens— a DSLR-size sensor and interchangeable lenses in a small package. While the EOS M requires a $200 adapter to mount your existing Canon lenses, that small investment allows you to use it as a backup body at the very least.

I just can’t for the life of me understand why Nikon can’t see that they missed the target twice.