Re: was Your Friend Bob now ...nikon vs canon - God spare us

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A little late but none the less,,,

Respectfully, that is just what Canon and Nikon want you to do!! Switch!!. Each year one or the other will up the ante with new cameras. Up unitl this latestversion Nikon was way behind the noise issue. It took them 3 iterations of camera bodies to surpass Canon. Then Canon has AF issues on the high end, Then Canon builds cameras that work well into the 12500 ISO range... Now we have prosumer bodies that are in the 15 meg range for under 1500 USD. I know several shooters that have opted for BOTH systems. Many Like Nikon for the WA stuffand Canon for the long stuff, go figure. It is Kodak vs Fuji all over again. I shoot Canon exclusivley. Won't shoot Nikon, but respect those that do and do not bother with the C vs N wars. It's stupid. Instead I address the creative aspects of each photographers work.

Shoot what gear gets the job done for you,

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From: herschel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sep 2, 2008 12:22 PM
To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students
Subject: was Your Friend Bob now ...nikon vs canon - God spare us

Canon seem intent on cramming as many pixels into as small an area as they can. Then writing clever software to fix the noise.

As an ex- Canon endorser in the Middle East, (Actually I still am) I must say that my personal, possibly flawed, side by side tests with the 1Ds mk111 and the Nikon D3 have convinced me to go out buy the Nikon (Without the sizable discount that I would get from Canon) and buy expensive optics for the Nikon too.

Even if I upsize the MP count to match the Canon and compare side by side at 200 ISO, The colour, detail, highlight retention and NOISE, are better on the Nikon. At 400 or 800 ISO it's no competition

I still have a good collection of Canon and I must say that the 1ds MkII, with 70-200/2.8 is hard to beat
but the new 14-24/2.8 Nikkor is just amazing... beter than my 14/2.8 and my 24/2.8 pretty damn good lenses in thier own right.

I'm sure there's nothing between the brands in the prime lenses, and quite honestly I prefer the feel of the Nikon primes (I still work mostly with prime lenses.. 50mm/1.4 where possible-age showing)

Too many pixels guys... means low signal to noise ratio and too much noise.

There's the lid off the can of worms... ooops

Herschel


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