Haven\'t read the whole thread - and don\'t plan to - but a few thoughts...
Canon and Nikon both make excellent cameras and lenses so you won\'t go wrong with either brand. In general, switching (either direction) is rarely a good idea. You buy into a system of camera, lenses, batteries, and more - and while one brand may be ahead of the other in some ways at a given point in time, over the long term there are few differences of significance. If Company A has something this year or month that is better than Company B, the odds are that the tables will be turned next year.
So if you are already invested in one or the other brand, any potential advantages from switching are likely to be erased within a short period of time and likely to have a much smaller effect than you might imagine even in the short term.
Regarding the D800 and D800e question, I like to say that if...
- you are a photographer with no existing investment in a DSLR system who needs the highest current sensor resolution, and...
- you shoot specific subjects that benefit from highest possible resolution, and...
- you are a very careful and highly competent technician, and...kl
- you regularly make prints at very large sizes that push the envelope of what is possible from full frame DSLR cameras, and...
- you want a small increase in potential size of extremely large prints...
the D800/d800e is this year\'s highest resolution DSLR system.
I know of exactly one person who is in the category I described above. This person is a well-known landscape photographer who makes large and beautiful prints, who has gradually moved from LF film to MF digital, and who previously did not own a DLRS system. He was looking for a system for a certain aspect of his photography that might be better accomplished with a smaller (compared to MF digital!) system, and he settled on the D800e for his rather specialized purposes. But it is very import to consider that he hit all of my points listed above.
When it comes to sensor resolution, there are several things to keep in mind:
- Nikon (and the interesting new Sony models) currently have higher resolution sensors than Canon.
- Sensor resolution is very, very rarely a significant factor for most photographers - being largely limited to those shooting carefully from the tripod and regularly producing fine art prints in a size range that might be larger than 24\" x 36\".
- Other factors may be more important than sensor resolution for most photographers.
- You can expect that \"lead\" in sensor resolution to seesaw back and forth among manufacturers over a time scale of a year or two.
Dan
Dec 04, 2013 at 11:14 AM
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