Upgrading.... Canon or Nikon?

[Smokeyr67]

WA to Brisbane - just a day trip

What sort of underwater photography are you into Britt?

 

[Solarflare]

If you are on all EF-S lenses and have to buy the full frame lenses, sure you can go ahead and "switch sides" to Nikon.

As the heated discussion about details in this thread probably already told you, theres lots of small differences between the brands.

Personally, I prefered Nikon back then because Ken Rockwell suggested it, and so far I saw no reason to reconsider. The differences are small enough, anyway, but Nikon for example has the better automatized flash system, which is a huge plus for me since I still dont really "get" flash (and if David Hobbys site is any indication, that could be a lifelong study ...).

If I was on Canon, though, the 6D is NOT a worse camera than the D600.

Yes the sensor of the D600 is better. No the sensor of the D600 isnt WORLDS better, and as already mentioned in this thread, the 6D offers you higher ISOs.

The AF of the 6D is a lot better. Yes the D600 has 39 AF points, but whats the point of that if they are all crammed in the center anyway ? It feels as if you only have ONE AF point, really. The 6D has only 11 AF points, but they are more reasonably distributed over the frame. And the ability of the D600 to focus at f/8 is utterly pointless. If I wanted one of these uber long focal lengths, I would have gotten a D7100 with APS-C, thank you very much. The ability to focus at -3 EV of the 6D would be a lot more useful to me.

So yeah, there is no perfect brand. In your shoes, I would stay with Canon. You're used to it now and wouldnt have to relearn, and you dont really get the perfect deal with Nikon, either.

 

[Newtricks]

I'm only 18, so not a whole heap of life experience with cameras. What are your opinions in between the Canon 6D and Nikon D600? Or am I going too far over my head and should I be looking at the next one down, such as 7D?

The best advice I ever got was from a fellow musician nearly 30 years ago... Buy the best, don't worry about the equipment being better than you are, just but the best. If you get the best possible outfit you can afford at this point in time, it will likely be many years before you have a real need to upgrade. As to which is better, my personal opinion is... it is pretty much like the old Chevy - Chrysler debate, they both have their stanch devotees but what it really comes down to is which is better suited to fulfilling your personal desires.

My advice... buy the camera that will best suit your needs.

Be well,

Anthony

 

[Solarflare]

That advice is very good, except of course we talk about digital cameras here(*).

Which, sadly, will NOT last too long. A couple years they'll be fine, then you'll start to be more and more incompatible. At one point the batteries might no longer be available. Or the cards used will get outdated and slowly get harder and harder to get. Plus the cameras themselves arent that sturdy, either, usually.

Also, much sooner the technological advance will start giving other cameras at first only small, then increasingly bigger advantages. Like I wouldnt want to use a camera from 2009 or earlier, today, simply because they are still CCD instead of CMOS and dont offer that good low light performance.


(*): That advice would work perfectly fine for film cameras.

 

[Newtricks]

That advice is very good, except of course we talk about digital cameras here(*).

Which, sadly, will NOT last too long. A couple years they'll be fine, then you'll start to be more and more incompatible. At one point the batteries might no longer be available. Or the cards used will get outdated and slowly get harder and harder to get. Plus the cameras themselves arent that sturdy, either, usually.

Also, much sooner the technological advance will start giving other cameras at first only small, then increasingly bigger advantages. Like I wouldnt want to use a camera from 2009 or earlier, today, simply because they are still CCD instead of CMOS and dont offer that good low light performance.


(*): That advice would work perfectly fine for film cameras.

I might agree, had I not been shooting a Minolta X-700 up until a month ago, or running the same Linux system on a computer I built in 1997. There is the planned obsolescence that the big corporations have been working on getting us to accept for decades now... and there are people (not sheeple) who think for themselves outside the box. Where do you stand?

Be well,

Anthony

 

[Smokeyr67]

I'm using a lens I picked up in the nineties, (70-200 f2.8) nothing has come out to make me consider upgrading it, but I have been through a few bodies