Re: Nikon D50 clearly beats Canon 350D at dpreview.com

I do not understand what he meant by saying "canon cripples" their Rebel XT and went on to say the D50 is step down from D70.


ThomasH wrote: 
GTO wrote:

You most certainly have seen dpreview's comparison between the D50 and the 350D already. If not, here it is:

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/nikond50/page23.asp 


Astonishing is the advance in the noise level, which the D50
brings with it. The evolution of the sensor technology is not
over.  Every new camera might raise the bar to a new level!

  http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/nikond50/page17.asp

I also cannot stop to wonder, why Canon cripples their lower
level cameras so much. Nikon's strategy to provide the majority
of features with every lower priced body addresses much better
the needs of the public. For example observe that the D50
shoots very consistently 1 frames per sec RAW, whereas the
EOS D350 goes into a chaotic spread of time periods. I call
it a blunder (see the bottom of this page):

  http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/nikond50/page5.asp


Considering all such observations, I am not surprised that Nikon
sold 2005 almost the same number of DSLR's like Canon, despite the
resolution advantage of Canon cameras, and until the D50, also
a noise level advantage of the leading Canon CMOS technology.
Canon was recently forced to fix and repair a lot of stuff:
Camera readers because of the Lexar blunder, camera grips, their
software is catastrophic (I am still in talk with them about
Digital Photo Pro displaying only a half of an image or the raw
converter not allowing to change destination directory!!)

I think that most surprising to some might be the almost
negligible difference between 6 and 8 mpix images in real
applications and in print up to 13" width. Simple math
explains this with ease: 6pix image has 3000 pixels along
the longer edge and the 8pix image has 3456. Its mere 15%
difference. I am glad that Nikon focuses on the more essential
issues of ergonomics, dynamic range, color accuracy, and they
also tackle with the noise so well.

  http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/nikond50/page19.asp

D50 is a great little camera! I like the competition between
Nikon and Canon, as a user of *both* these systems!

Thomas


PS: So Mr GTO, what do we learn here: Opinions may vary, so do
not write such comical canon glorifying articles like yours, because
your reasoning sounds as if your would be trying to convince
yourself of something. Maybe you should read dpreview again???

.

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