I WANT TO BUY A PROFESSIONAL CAMERA WHICH ONE IS BETTER NIKON D3 OR CANON 1Ds MARK III OF 21 MEGA PIXELS?
Posted by admin | Under Nikon D3 Cameras Wednesday Feb 4, 2009I WANT TO USE THE CAMERA PROFESSIONALLY TO SHOOT PICTURES & USE TO MAKE LARGE LIFE SIZE HOARDINGS USED FOR ADVERTISING
Get an old EOS3 and use your money on the lenses, filters and studio time.
I am going to go with 21mp.
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Now that you have explained your quesition further, I would suggest you look into either a proper 4×5 view camera or if you really want to shoot digitally, a Hasselblad H3D.
From your same question on the "Camera" side.
It depends upon what experience you have shooting professionally and what system you already have.
It is not the camera you need to be concerned about, but the lenses. Lenses will last for decades while digital SLR bodies will have to be replaced about every three to four years.
If you have the extra $8,000 for the Canon and $5,000 for the Nikon, buy both and see which suits your needs as a pro.
My guess is, you will find that both provide suitable image quality for any publication … after all some of us are still using professional DSLR camera's with as little as 6MP with success.
Don't get caught up in the pixel stampede. There is a limit to pixel density on any given sensor. After a certain point, diffraction becomes a factor and the image becomes degraded. While we have known this for many decades by the effects of using too small an f/stop, it is just now showing up in the compact digital camera arena when 12MP or more pixels are being crammed into tiny sensors.
Only you can make the choice. Since we have to change digital camera bodies every three or four years, I am happy I only have to buy three D-3's @ $5,000 each instead of some of my friends who just put down $24,000 for three Canon 1Ds Mark III's
And sad to say, our client's are only using 2×3 inch images in their newspapers and magazines and worse 100K images on their websites … why do we shoot 10MB or more images for them? Because it is expected … the cost of doing business
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depends on if you normally shoot in canon or nikon? you can't go wrong with either. they are both super pricey and is this something you are going to make money with or just use as a hobby? no need to go SO pro… the 5d is good (i use)….
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Get an old EOS3 and use your money on the lenses, filters and studio time.
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21 megapixels is a lot but you really are going to need more than this if you are going to make really large mural prints which is why still to this day if a photographer knows his or her shot is going to be billboard size they may consider shooting with a large format camera either 4×5 or 8×10. Images of this size will yield an image with a megapixel equivalent of anywhere from 200-960 megapixels depending of the type of film which can then be scanned digitally. Of course there are digital backs for large format cameras that can yield anywhere from 200-900 megapixels such as the scanning backs from anagramm or betterlight but you are stuck shooting still lives. There are also one shot digital backs in the 22-39 megapixel range which do a much better job at rendering images as compared to smaller full frame DSLR's but the problem here is cost. Thankfully digital backs are going down in price and you can find digital backs for medium format cameras such as Hasselblads v system for the price one would pay for a pro DSLR. Almost like film the fact is size counts and the larger the sensor the better the image. However, there are limits to medium format backs, and that is storage and the fact that medium format cameras are a bit more cumbersome to work with especially in the field so if action is a major part of your work then I would personally go for the Canon 1ds, though you may want to wait because Sony does have a 25megapixel sensor which will be on the market shortly and you might want to see how that performs.
As a professional photographer I have to say that you will find that there is no such thing as the perfect camera which is why there are so many types of cameras on the market. Although I am an advocate of larger format cameras I know that they are not suited for all types of photographic work. But since you did say size is an issue then just take a look at the images a 600 megapixel scanning back can do and then compare that to the best file a markIII or d3 can do. http://www.betterlight.com/fullRes_zoomifyLIST.html
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http://www.clarkvision.com/imagedetail/film.vs.digital.1.html
http://www.anagramm.com/