New Camera

Jimmy you have helped me in the past answering a lot of detailing questions. I would like to return the favor. A couple of things, I am a canon guy. I shoot 1dm3, and 5dm2 (just ordered 5dm3). It's crazy I was on your site tonight, cherry picking the products you use, I am placing a order tomorrow, and I was admiring not only your image quality but your composition of your pics. Basically it's all about your budget. Most important it's the glass! Full frame, such as the canon 5dm2 L glass you will achieve pro results, I would watch pricing on the 5dm2, as it should be dropping, due to the 5dm3. I can direct you to the best cheapest prices for canon, also check out dpreview.com great forum. Last if you have time processing your shots shoot raw files.

 

This was a really good comparison.

The funny thing is Nikon has usually lagged Canons in the MP race (Canon marketing advantage) and when Nikon blows by the Canon the Canon fans try to dismss MP as important. Of course, 36Mp may be too many.

 

Not if you want to blow it up to put on the side of hoover dam while cropping to a 1/10 of the original shot. It's darn low to do that. And of course, that's a common photography need these days.

 

Very true, at 36mp, I'd rather have a Medium Format rather than the regular Full Frame.

 

I could see someone having a shorter lens and then making up for in cropping but you think someone with a 20 or 36 MP camera would have a good lens selection. I do not recall if they mentioned it if you change the Nikon resolution to less than max does the performance speed up any since that seems to be the biggest disadvantage.

 

The cost to store 20 or even 36MP can get expensive if you take lots of pics.

 

True again, My 16mp RAW files are filling up my 1.5TB HDD fairly quickly, can't imagine what it'd be like to have more than double the mp count, lol

 

Sheesh, and I'm happy with my 4mp D40 because it's big enough! :hippie:

 

I have shot Canon in the past, but sold everything when I wanted to go Full Frame - Back then i tried both 5D MKII and the D700, and the D700 felt more like a 'tool' and I didn't care for video. The D800 is just another camera, and is aimed at the MP hungry crowd (landscape, modelling etc.). Nikon already said that the D800 is not the 'upgrade' to the D700 , so a lower MP FF body with more similar specs to the D4 is to be expected.

IMO you should go try both systems before making up your mind - and do consider the MP count. As members already stated, 36mp files are quite big and will take up a lot of space, if you tend to store the .NEF files.


Kind regards,

Ebbe