Previous versions of brainiac's message #7331369 « Massive jump-ship. What to do? »
brainiac Offline [X]
Re: Massive jump-ship. What to do?
mawz wrote:
They\'ve got a lot more differences than commonalities.
I don\'t see it that way. For me they are remarkably similar, i.e. APS-C digital SLR\'s. One costs less than twice the price of the other. They both use Bayer sensors to record 15 Mpixels of data. They are about the same generation. In my list I didn\'t just pick the things they had in common, I listed the features that are fundamental to the usefulness of the two cameras. For me they would be virtually interchangeable, and if someone handed me either to do a particular job I would be quite happy. Just as we share 90+% of our DNA with chimps, so these two cameras are overwhlmingly more similar than different.
By your description nobody should ever look at a 50D because it\'s differences compared to a 500D are just marketing.
I think that\'s a fair point.
>Also, by those arguments, you should be complaining that the K7 is not compared against the D90 and D60.
Let me lodge that complaint right now. The image embedded above should certainly have compared the K7 to similarly sized DSLRs from other brands - otherwise what does it prove? That\'s my point.
I know your answer to everything compact seems to be \'get a 450D/500D\', but frankly while they\'re nice consumer bodies that produce excellent output, the bodies themselves are rather crappy and simply don\'t compare in build or ergonomics to higher-end bodies. Nobody looking seriously at a K7 or similar body is going to get a 500D instead unless economics force them to.
This raises a whole lot of issues, when my point simply was that if you want to compare the K7\'s size it doesn\'t make much sense to avoid comparison with the big selling APS-C cameras like the much cheaper Nikons and Canons. I am sorry I mentioned only the Rebels, I just picked them as an example.
Jul 22, 2009 at 09:35 AM
Previous versions of brainiac's message #7331369 « Massive jump-ship. What to do? »
