Hey everyone,
I'm looking for some advice, as I'm having a hard time making a decision. I currently shoot with a Canon 7d for a few years now, but I've really wanted to get into full frame for quite a while now. I've dons tons of research on the 5d mark iii and sounds like an awesome camera, but over the last few weeks I've been trying to decide if I wanna jump ship and sell my Canon gear and go to Nikon full frame? I have 2 options on my mind, either the d600 or the d3s. I know most people think you can only get the d3s used now, but I've found it online bran new for just under $3,800. Even though that camera is like 4 years old, that seems like a steal to me for being bran new? I know a lot of people say that megapixels aren't everything, obviously because I watch a lot of you pro photographers on you tube and still to this day use the d3s or d4 with only 12mp on the d3s. I hear some people say is about the QUALITY of megapixels not the QUANTITY that matters? I know that the d3s is the king of low light even to today's cameras.
I would really love the d3s, but from all the videos and tests done on the d600, I'm pretty impressed with the image quality and low light noise performance is pretty good. Not at d3s level, but still very good through iso 6400 at least?
So my question to you is, I have a couple options I'm throwing around. Option 1, should I sell my canon gear and get that d3s for under $3800 bran new while it's still available? And depending on how much I get from my canon gear, I might be able to afford at least one lens, probably the 24-70 f2.8 to start with. OR!! Option 2, sell the canon gear and go with the d600, (I can find the d600 online for under $1400 now), they have dropped the price way down on that thing. With the d600 I should have enough money to get both the 24-70 f2.8 and 70-200 f2.8 vr ii.
So I'm curious to hear what you have to say about this? The only thing that worries me about the d600 is that it only has a max shutter of 1/4000. That won't work so well shooting sports in bright sunlight. And obviously the focus square problems everyone complains about. The fact that they are all to clustered in the center of the viewfinder. I'm worried that I would have to focus and recompose too much?
Any thoughts or suggestions would be great.
Thank you,
Blair
I'm looking for some advice, as I'm having a hard time making a decision. I currently shoot with a Canon 7d for a few years now, but I've really wanted to get into full frame for quite a while now. I've dons tons of research on the 5d mark iii and sounds like an awesome camera, but over the last few weeks I've been trying to decide if I wanna jump ship and sell my Canon gear and go to Nikon full frame? I have 2 options on my mind, either the d600 or the d3s. I know most people think you can only get the d3s used now, but I've found it online bran new for just under $3,800. Even though that camera is like 4 years old, that seems like a steal to me for being bran new? I know a lot of people say that megapixels aren't everything, obviously because I watch a lot of you pro photographers on you tube and still to this day use the d3s or d4 with only 12mp on the d3s. I hear some people say is about the QUALITY of megapixels not the QUANTITY that matters? I know that the d3s is the king of low light even to today's cameras.
I would really love the d3s, but from all the videos and tests done on the d600, I'm pretty impressed with the image quality and low light noise performance is pretty good. Not at d3s level, but still very good through iso 6400 at least?
So my question to you is, I have a couple options I'm throwing around. Option 1, should I sell my canon gear and get that d3s for under $3800 bran new while it's still available? And depending on how much I get from my canon gear, I might be able to afford at least one lens, probably the 24-70 f2.8 to start with. OR!! Option 2, sell the canon gear and go with the d600, (I can find the d600 online for under $1400 now), they have dropped the price way down on that thing. With the d600 I should have enough money to get both the 24-70 f2.8 and 70-200 f2.8 vr ii.
So I'm curious to hear what you have to say about this? The only thing that worries me about the d600 is that it only has a max shutter of 1/4000. That won't work so well shooting sports in bright sunlight. And obviously the focus square problems everyone complains about. The fact that they are all to clustered in the center of the viewfinder. I'm worried that I would have to focus and recompose too much?
Any thoughts or suggestions would be great.
Thank you,
Blair