Re: Nikon D80/200 - Canon 30d

On Jun 3, 5:21 pm, Wolfgang Weisselberg <ozcvgt...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:


You claim: D200 images + (Noise Ninja or NeatImage) are as
good or better than 30D images. Right?


YES.



Which is why dpreview writes:

The dpreview guys are so far out to lunch, especially when it comes
to noise, that their opinions don't matter to me one iota.



It couldn't be that Canon uses a CMOS sensor --- which is a
completely different technique to the CCD sensor of the D200 ---
and it couldn't be that a completely different technique just
_might_ have a different type and strength of noise!


The CCD vs. CMOS argument does not exactly work in your favour.

See:

http://www.shortcourses.com/how/sensors/sensors.htm
http://www.dalsa.com/markets/ccd_vs_cmos.asp
http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/question362.htm
http://www.dalsa.com/shared/content/Photonics_Spectra_CCDvsCMOS_Litwiller.pdf



"Resolution and noise have almost nothing to do with real
image quality". Didn't even read the first word.
Resolution. That alleged 10 MPix, you know?


I agree with Rockwell 100% on this issue. The D200's slightly higher
resolving power is not particularly meaningful in real-world
photography. You're the one who's engaging in pixel-peeping here, not
I. I was merely pointing out that you can't have it both ways. If
you're going to say that resolution is "irrelevant" then you should
apply the same logic to noise.


In other words, if you grab J. Random Lens, it might work, or
might not work. If you want a special lens, it's very much
hit and miss.


Once more from the top. THE VAST MAJORITY of AI series and later F-
mount lenses WILL WORK. Nikon is pretty good about documenting which
ones will not. There is nothing random about it.


So? Any old FD macro will work very well as a macro on an
EOS camera.


Except mine works for general photography with aperture-priority, 2D
matrix metering and TTL flash all working perfectly.


Of course that banding issue. The one that Nikon claims to
have fixed, although it didn't only show up in high key
photograpy (you know, high key, something professionals do).


I did a quick google search of "D200 banding" and could find zero
evidence that it continues to be a problem, or that it was ever at all
a serious issue.


Oh, I just didn't like the "the D200 is soooo professssional and
soooo much better than the 30D, which is a 'consumer camera',
having scene modes" and all that.


I did not write that.

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