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Am I crazy to even think of switching to Nikon? Here's my gear...

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#41
PhilDrinkwater said:
As resolution increases, the shutter speed needed to get a sharp photo *AT 100% ZOOM* increases. If you're happy with shooting and scaling down to 5d3 or d700 resolution, you can get away with a lower shutter speed and still have a visibly sharp image.

For my wedding work I never check focus at 100% 5d2 resolution. If I'm unsure I can get away with something, I scale it down to d700 resolution since that's acceptable focus for my albums.
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You do know that is a myth right?

It's hard to believe you shoot weddings.
 
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poker_jake85 said:
PhilDrinkwater said:
As resolution increases, the shutter speed needed to get a sharp photo *AT 100% ZOOM* increases. If you're happy with shooting and scaling down to 5d3 or d700 resolution, you can get away with a lower shutter speed and still have a visibly sharp image.

For my wedding work I never check focus at 100% 5d2 resolution. If I'm unsure I can get away with something, I scale it down to d700 resolution since that's acceptable focus for my albums.
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You do know that is a myth right?

It's hard to believe you shoot weddings.
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What an exceptionally rude and unnecessary response. You must be great to hang out with.
 
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PhilDrinkwater said:
poker_jake85 said:
PhilDrinkwater said:
As resolution increases, the shutter speed needed to get a sharp photo *AT 100% ZOOM* increases. If you're happy with shooting and scaling down to 5d3 or d700 resolution, you can get away with a lower shutter speed and still have a visibly sharp image.

For my wedding work I never check focus at 100% 5d2 resolution. If I'm unsure I can get away with something, I scale it down to d700 resolution since that's acceptable focus for my albums.
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You do know that is a myth right?

It's hard to believe you shoot weddings.
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What an exceptionally rude and unnecessary response. You must be great to hang out with.
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Phil is correct... with the 7d, it is best practice to shoot 2x the FL of the lens to get a sharp image... This is one of many reasons why people flame the 7d's AF system. While the 7D's full frame resolution would be close to 45MP give or take a few MP, the 36MP would require some care to ensure a sharp image... Basically you are exceeding the resolution and size of the 35mm format... As I've stated many times, 35mm, in film, was printed at a maximum of 11x14 and that was pushing it... now people are printing 13x19's all the was up to 30x40's with interpolation... the bigger you get, the more focus is going to be even more critical and any flaws with lenses and resolution and such will be more greatly magnified. In the past, this size of prints was shot with 645's, 67'x, 4x5's....
 
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#45
EOS 1DsMKII
1D MKIV
EF 14 2.8L
EF 180 3.5L Macro
EF 300 2.8 L IS USM
EF TS 24 3.5L
EF 16-35 2.8L
EF 24-70 2.8L
EF 70-200 2.8L IS USM

no way in Hell swap to Nikon, been in love with my Canon gear since the F1N back in 1987, never let me down!
and yes, you are crazy lol
 
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+1 to Pedro

Yes you are crazy to change.

Until you have the new 5d in your hands and using it why make an assumption that the D800 will be better, I have a load of Nikon friends with D700 and D3's and only 1 a pro I know is getting a D800, he wants it for architecture and Studio, but he now finds he may have an issue with using it with the Nikon tilt and shift lens, which will mean he cannot do exactly what he wants to do.

Sure there is the high megapixel advantage but if you end up having to do all your work on a tripod/monopod due to camera shake, those megapixels are not going to look good then.

I take it your work gets good results with you 5D Mark II, they will get better with the Mark III

The USB 3.0 port on the D800 is irrelevent I only know 1 person who connects his camera to his mac pro laptop and USB 3.0 as far as I know is not appearing on Macs.

I use laptops and pc's and even though my pc has USB 3 I only use it for my lexar card reader and an external USB 3 Hard drive.

Last but not least - have you seen some of the idiots who post on NR - would you like to have a conversation wih them? Most are bitter twisted and even argue amongst themselves especially over the 36mp/16mp debate.


Your investment in glass is a good one, wish I had some of those
 
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vuilang said:
good luck with D800 for the wedding..
just be prepare for longer post and bigger cf cards.
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I'm in the preorder queue for the 5d3 but this seems like such a stupid argument. Why not go back and shoot with the original 1D - think of all the time you'll save in post and the money you'll save in cf cards.

The cost of storing 10,000 photos from a 36MP camera today are FAR less than the same cost for a 21MP 5D2 when it was launched. Same thing for processing time.
 
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I'm in a dilemma as well. I am definitely getting a 5Diii, but am thinking about selling my mark ii in order to purchase a D800e. Half my work is weddings, half is landscape photography. Then I would buy a 14-24 and maybe a few primes to start out, while keeping all my canon lenses. Apart from the question of money, I don't know if it's wise. Because for weddings my wide, backup body would be a Nikon. I can't imagine not swearing every time I switch from one camera to the other because buttons and switches are in completely different places. I can guess that no one here things that this is a good idea...myself included. But is it worth the benefit which is this: I print 24x36 and larger prints of my landscape photography. I'd like to get more sharpness that I currently do out of my 5Dii for these large prints. Other photographers who I interact with shoot MF. So that's what my stuff compares to.
The biggest reason I think is that I hike and climb for about half my shots. I carry a 5D, TS-E 17mm TS-E 24mm ii. I don't use grads. I take multiple exposures if I need to grad something later. If I went with a D800E, not only would I have extra sharpness, but I would have more DR to work with, thus bracketing less often(I hate bracketing), and no grads necessary. I also could use 1 lens 14-24 and could actually use ND if I needed for long exposures, where the TS-E 17mm it's not possible (without being creative/sketchy).

So I need to decide if it's worth the trade-off, or maybe just save up a little so I can keep my 5Dii as a 2nd wedding camera.

What would also help me to decide if it's worth spending all that money on new lens and camera is a real life side-by-side test. I'd like to see some high dynamic range landscape scenes shot with 5Diii and TS-E 17mm and TS-E 24mm, then side-by-side with D800E with 14-24 at same focal lengths.

So if anyone who have both on hold, and own these lenses, when you get the cameras, you should do a side-by-side comparison for the sake of us landscape large-printing photographers.
 
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