I made the C to N switch. Just starting to put together a collection of lenses. My D7000 arrived yesterday with a couple of zooms. D3S and different lenses should be coming in next week. Learning curve for the Nikon body wasn't too bad. Lens mount orientation is the main thing that my brain has to undo. Based on shooting inside my house last night, my initial impression of the "lowly" D7000 is that its AF is better than anything I've shot Canon that wasn't a 1-series (D60, 10D, T2i, 60D, 7D, both 5D's). I got to play a tiny bit near dusk early this evening. I will confess that I am pleasantly surprised from the IQ of the 24-70/2.8G. I had a 28-70/2.8L that was excellent and a 24-70/2.8L that was also very good. I had many copies of the 24-70 before settling on the one I most recently shot with. Neither really would come close to this in terms of sharpness. Blur is very nice too. Shot very casually, hand-held, 2.8, 1/320, ISO 800, light breeze. AF locked right onto the stamens every time:
While I have never owned Canon, I did text extensively with the older ones before settling on Nikon, purely, for me, the ergonomics. Nikon just felt better TO ME, while to several of my shooting buddies Canon felt better TO THEM. It is all in learning the equipment, learning its strong points, weak points, quirks, foibles, failure points, and Hail Mary points. My two kopeks worth.
I shoot both (1Ds Mark II and D2XS ) : the difference (for me and shooting events) is about the flash. Nikon is superior, it shows -clearly- in the percentage of the keepers. Beside that it's all about the glass: the 17-55 DX nikon is so so , like the 24-70 canon. the 24-70 FX nikon is way better than both. But (again) if you consider the portable flash as an important part of your production then stay with Nikon.
P.S. I use a metz 54 on the canon , in auto (thyristor) .. because e-ttl II is .. well ... funny
fracas wrote:
What do you mean by this? I asked for an explanation to a friend who owns a D700, but he couldn't tell me the difference with respect to what I can see on my Canon 5dmkII.
Thanks, francesco
Francesco,
on a Canon 5D Mark II if you shoot RAW, when you zoom in to 100% you are not really seeing the raw file at 100% You are seeing the small JPG embedded in the raw magnified to 100%. That file is significantly smaller than the full resolution file. If something looks sharp it can be because it's really sharp or because it's ALMOST sharp and the size reduction creates the illusion.
On a D700 when you zoom in, you zoom in. It's got NOTHING to do with the LCD. It's got EVERYTHING to do with what is SHOWN on the LCD.
I've never tried on a Canon 1D IV but I asked a friend who has one and he said it's definitelly doing the same 5D bullshit.
bottom line, zooming in on the file will not effectively show you critical focus.
jdben622 wrote:
I made the C to N switch. Just starting to put together a collection of lenses. My D7000 arrived yesterday with a couple of zooms. D3S and different lenses should be coming in next week. Learning curve for the Nikon body wasn't too bad. Lens mount orientation is the main thing that my brain has to undo. Based on shooting inside my house last night, my initial impression of the "lowly" D7000 is that its AF is better than anything I've shot Canon that wasn't a 1-series (D60, 10D, T2i, 60D, 7D, both 5D's). I got to play a tiny bit near dusk early this evening. I will confess that I am pleasantly surprised from the IQ of the 24-70/2.8G. I had a 28-70/2.8L that was excellent and a 24-70/2.8L that was also very good. I had many copies of the 24-70 before settling on the one I most recently shot with. Neither really would come close to this in terms of sharpness. Blur is very nice too. Shot very casually, hand-held, 2.8, 1/320, ISO 800, light breeze. AF locked right onto the stamens every time:
on a Canon 5D Mark II if you shoot RAW, when you zoom in to 100% you are not really seeing the raw file at 100% You are seeing the small JPG embedded in the raw magnified to 100%. That file is significantly smaller than the full resolution file. If something looks sharp it can be because it's really sharp or because it's ALMOST sharp and the size reduction creates the illusion.
On a D700 when you zoom in, you zoom in. It's got NOTHING to do with the LCD. It's got EVERYTHING to do with what is SHOWN on the LCD.
I've never tried on a Canon 1D IV but I asked a friend who has one and he said it's definitelly doing the same 5D bullshit.
bottom line, zooming in on the file will not effectively show you critical focus. ...Show more →
