canon or nikon!!!!

neil_g said:
i see all the nikon owners are online tonight then.. lol

id say get whatever you like the feel of AND give you the test shots you want.
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That's because us Canon users are out shooting.:D

Nikon and Canon systems are the top35mm DSLR photography equipment manufacturers. You will not go wrong whichever one you choose.

I shoot canon :thumbs:, I been using the brand for well over 25 years. It suits my needs, my stile and, I find them easy to use. Go try both and buy what suits your needs.
 
The thing that keeps me coming back to Canon - whenever I see really amazing landscape pics on flickr, they pretty much always say taken on a Canon 5D MK II. The colours and dynamic range just seem amazing to me. I just can't quite bring myself to spend £1500 on a camera with such an antiquated AF system though.
 
grum said:
The thing that keeps me coming back to Canon - whenever I see really amazing landscape pics on flickr, they pretty much always say taken on a Canon 5D MK II. The colours and dynamic range just seem amazing to me. I just can't quite bring myself to spend £1500 on a camera with such an antiquated AF system though.
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Don't forget this doesn't mean that the D700 can't produce absolutely stunning landscape shots as well.

It's just that landscape shoots tend to go for the canon, since it has the extra resolution and speed isn't important.


Have you tried out the AF system? if it seems fast enough for the uses you need, I wouldn't worry about it, but if you really find it too bad to put up with then obviously the nikon is a better choice.
 
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neil_g said:
i see all the nikon owners are online tonight then.. lol

id say get whatever you like the feel of AND give you the test shots you want.
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The Canon owners dont need to prove anything.;)
 
Landscapes probably say canon as I got the feeling that photojournalists used nikons traditionally and portrait photographers/artistic types tended to go for canon. Canon always seems to have the more saturated colours compared to Nikon. Nikon is more natural but can look a bit bland.

I'm basing this on side by side magazine reviews and that's the impression I get. I could be talking complete rubbish though :)

A lot of it is just willy waving. Look at me with my massive lens. Men are the same with cars, hifi and every other hobby :D

Just get whatever takes the best pictures in your opinion and ignore the label.
 
squishy said:
Even Ken Rockwell (sorry, sorry, I know it's a sin to mention his name), agrees that the 5DMKII provides stunning IQ, more comparable to the D3X (of course the D3X has better dynamic range and other aspects of IQ, but look at the price!).

I think the only camera the can compete with (or beat) the 5DMKII for image quality in it's price range is the A900.

Of course, it is widely agreed that the D700 has better AF and obviously shoots faster, as well as possibly being better at high ISO's (honestly, I think the two are pretty much even though at high ISO's. I've looked at multiple comparisons, and in some the D700 looks marginally better, and in some others the 5DMKII looks marginally better, so I really don't know if there is a model which is definitively (Of course, the D700 will looks better at 100%, since you're looking at a larger area than on the 5DMkII, but when scaled for the detail to match in size, the two seem to provide remarkably similar results)) In any case, the 5DMkII is certainly no slouch in the ISO department, even if the D700 beats it marginally.


Any word from the OP on which you prefer the feel of? Unless resolution or AF performance are particularly important, I'd just pick the one you like the feel of most.
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I'd want to see images of the same scene taken on both cameras with equivalent lenses by the same photographer at the same time.

You say yourself that you've seen good and bad from both marques - how much of that is down to the photographer/light/luck...?

Above a certain price-point, it's more and more down to the skill of the shooter.
 
I'd have thought dpreview or imaging resource would have test shots you can compare from all the models you were interested in. Their reviews are generally very thorough.
 
I think, if you cut through all the crap, pretence and generally snobbery that surrounds photography, when viewing a finished photo you'd be hard pushed to tell what stunning landscape shot came from what camera. I've seen stuff from a Canon 40D that looks better than stuff from a 5DII, stuff from a Nikon that looks identical to stuff from a Canon etc....Hard to buy a duffer these days.
 
Isn't this a case of a workman always blames his tools, I think if you know your trade (which I might add I don't at the moment) you will take a quality photo with any camera you use, regardless of which make and model, although the purists out there would be able to tell a cheap camera from an expensive one.

At the end of the day its like buying a car, or anything for that matter, its all down to personal choice
 
Another who moved from Canon to Nikon (2 D700s) do I regret it? HA! Not one bit. :)

One thing that did concern me about the switch was dropping resolution but I need not have worried. I have spent a lot of time working with optics and if the lens is not resolving the image then it does not matter how many MP you have, it's going to be soft. So whichever you choose you need top quality optics to go with it and that is where the Nikon gear is really proving it's worth to me. My shots are actually looking sharper at 100% on the lower resolution D700 thanks to the top notch optics in front of it.

The other thing I truly love about them is the AF, it's just absolutely spot on each and every time.

Moving from Canon to Nikon took me a while to get used to where all the buttons were. Nikon have more buttons and Canon more menu driven.

I did a shoot on Wednesday out in the wet and I taped a bin bag over the D700 and 70-200mm. Now I KNOW I have got the hang of them because I was shooting completely blind and could find any adjustments I wanted with no problem. It just takes a little time and a lot of practice to get that intuitive with ANY bit of kit.

Either of these two will do very well with some top quality glass (which you do need to get the best from them)

My choice was between the 5DII and D700 and I changed every bit of kit I owned to make the change. THAT is how highly I regard the D700.
 
Don't ask us, we're all biased :lol:

Seriously though logic states you already have one lens, so that's one less to buy if you go in one direction.

Now what about the lenses you want and will want in the future? do both makes cover the focal length and the speed (F stop) you will want? what about accessories, do both makes cover the ones you will likely want at some point?

Now you've sat down and thought about those points, pop down a local shop and try both camera's WITH the lens you will want on them, see which one leaves you smiling and happy in the pants.
 
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