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yes, the II is still a bit out of my price range. I would almost rather have a 300 2.8 just to gain the speed and versatility of having the bare 2.8 when needed. but in all reality if I bought into the canon system I would probably try to find a decent used copy of a 600mm IS version 1 lens.
I still cannot shake the fact that the dynamic range, shadow recovery and 100% sharpness isn't even close to Nikons cheapest DX camera. I am so used to working with Nikons raw images and I can get so much out of them when lighting is harsh, I can under-expose to keep white birds from blowing out in harsh light and still get nice images. I can also pretty aggressively crop images at least for good websized photos, and probably crop 30-40% for medium sized prints on sharp photos with Nikon with no problem.
Other then the few, but very important issues to me where Nikon does exceed, I feel canon just wins in about every other aspect. In my price range I am able to buy more lens, for less money with canon, I will have better out of camera white balance and possibly a little bit better out of camera colors with less work. I really enjoy the video features and availability of black lantern for the canon bodies. FPS of is also a huge plus. Really ISO is not my main concern, I shoot wildlife at relatively low ISO these days anyways, or switch to a FF body when light is tough, so my main Crop camera (canon or nikon) would be a toss-up with iso staying below 1600.
Obviously making a choice one way or the other would be easy if canon had no AA filter, and slightly better sensor dynamic range.
Nikon would be the choice if they blow it out of the water with their next DX release.
But I still come down to the lens issue, with being able to find a canon 600mm is used for around $5500, where as Nikon only has 1 VR version of the lens so far, and they are $1500-$2000 more, not to mention Nikon made it so the new tc1.4x III wont work with non G lens, so that remove the slightly better priced Nikon 600mm AF-S II from the running.
I feel for telephoto canon has more options in the price point and teleconverter compatibility with all lenses.
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