any point in using Nikon lenses if you have a canon cam and vice versa ?

jcf wrote: »

A friend of mine who is really getting into photography decided to get himself a converter for his Canon body (450d) so he can use Nikon lenses ?

is there a point to this ?

What Nikon lens is superior to the Canon equivalent that warrants a convertor ?

If you have access to a pile of Nikon lenses already, or there's one particular lens that you fancy that you want to use then I don't see why you wouldn't do it. The Canon mount distance is a couple of mm shorter than the Nikon one, so you can mount Nikkors and still get infinity focus.
There are some legendary Nikon lenses, the 85mm f/1.4 for example, or (on a more modest scale) the 105 f/2.5, but you'd be better off just getting some Nikon body to suit if you were hankering after the lenses.

I have bought bodies before solely to mount a particular lens. I had a Helios 44, for example, mounted on my nikon bodies, but without infinity focus. I bought a Pentax Spotmatic to use just that lens. Of course it's like a gateway drug, I now find myself idly browsing for other M42 lenses on EBay :rolleyes: