What I said in other posts, and didn\'t say here, was that it\'s unusual for in camera RAW noise reduction to be implemented that couldn\'t be turned off. Sony uses a high level of noise reduction that cant be turned off, very unusual.
Actually, Sony no longer does that. Only the A700 ever had that, and that particular misfeature was removed with the v4 firmware.
True, not all Nikons do the lossy compression that can\'t be turned off. But some do.
Only the low-end consumer bodies do lossy compression only (D50 and D40/X/60), all others offer at least lossy and uncompressed NEF\'s.
A mount KIT is weather sealed, but none of the Zeiss lenses are weather sealed. Weather sealing a lens involves much more than having a mount kit, which doesn\'t seal the lenses at all.
No A mount kit is Weather Sealed. The A700 and A900 have rather limited dust sealing on the body, but that\'s it, it\'s not even mount sealing.
Those other manufacturers offer varying degees of weather sealing. The 5D does have some, and the new 5D mkII has much more. No manufacturer seals all their lenses. Canon does a prety good job there.
The 5D has no sealing, the 40D, 50D and 5DmII have limited sealing, although the 40D is dust sealing like the A700/A900.
Note that pretty much every DSLR on the market is somewhat weather resistant, just due to the design of the external shell (the three main openings being covered by your hand, the lens and the last being on the bottom of the camera). I\'ve had a number of unsealed cameras out in light to moderate rain with no effect.
Oct 06, 2008 at 08:08 AM
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