nikon D90 or canon EOS 50D

[Live_free]

It's amusing to see the owner of one particular camera defend it over and over, across post after post, when the numbers comparing the equipment are available for all to see at DXO Mark's web site.

I think it's because numbers don't tell the whole story. Nikon likes to push heavy noise reduction in-camera, but it leaves higher ISO images softer and with less detail. I would personally prefer a sharper image with a little noise in it that could be controlled cleanly with some third party software. Thats why I say images are more important than numbers. But if the numbers are what matters; with complete disregard to optics, features, post processing, or anything else involved in actually taking and producing a picture; then DxO Mark is your place to be.

Sharpness can also be changed even easier in third party software.. der

 

[ghpham]

Meh...if someone posted the pics from both side by side without the exif information, can anyone here tell with 100% certainty, which pic is from which camera?? I never thought I'd see the day when a photographer can be as geeky as a computer nerd

 

[Dao]

I stopped reading that comparison when it said the 50D sensor was better because it had more megapixels.

It's easy to find bias info. I was in the same situation, I went nikon, why? Cause the d90 simply can take better pictures.

What is the difference between these 2 statements in regards "bias info"?

"50D sensor was better because it had more megapixels"
"Cause the d90 simply can take better pictures"

I think both are fine cameras. And I strongly believe if I own both cameras, I will end up with the similar results in most situations. In some area, the D90 shines! But in other area, 50D is better. Which one is best for OP, it depends on what he/she is going after.

 

[Live_free]

I stopped reading that comparison when it said the 50D sensor was better because it had more megapixels.

It's easy to find bias info. I was in the same situation, I went nikon, why? Cause the d90 simply can take better pictures.

What is the difference between these 2 statements in regards "bias info"?

"50D sensor was better because it had more megapixels"
"Cause the d90 simply can take better pictures"

I think both are fine cameras. And I strongly believe if I own both cameras, I will end up with the similar results in most situations. In some area, the D90 shines! But in other area, 50D is better. Which one is best for OP, it depends on what he/she is going after.

Fine would you like me to say "Im my opinion the D90 takes better pictures" Is that better? Well that site you linked in telling thousands, I am telling a few, huge difference. Also it is meant to help people and be non bias and intelligent. All it does horribly. I'm not bias for saying I like it because it takes better pictures, that is an opinion, a bias is when you spread that opinion as truth.

 

[Fedaykin]

Both are great cameras. What you have to think about is the lens lineup for each company and which suit you better. For example Nikon lenses are generally more expensive than Canon lenses. I suggest looking at each lens lineup and choosing which would be better suited for your needs/wants.

 

[JimFly]

I have to agree with cfusionpm, its pictures and not isolated numbers or in other words the human eye

The Nikon vs Canon will it ever end ?

 

[cnutco]

D90

 

[eriqalan]

Image quality is as much a province of the lens as the body - in either case you are buying into a system

which goes back to the question you did not answer - why are you buying a camera; what are you going to do with it?