07-04-2016, 09:43 PM
pRICE cUBE wrote:
[quote=AllGold]
[quote=pRICE cUBE]
The fanboys fight about which brand is better. I just want both cameras to ship in mass so I can pick up a D4s or 1DX fir less than $2k.
Yeah, my days of buying $5500+ cameras are long past.
My last purchase was a 1Ds Mark III, originally an $8K camera, for less than $900.
It used to be that the latest $5-6k camera made a real difference. Now the previous gen cameras perform almost as well as models replacing them. In Nikon's case, it appears the D3S, D4, D4s all outperforms the D5 in noise. Some people will grouse about DXO's testing but it was a good reference when Nikon was ahead, now it is flawed when Nikon is behind.
Regardless, it is not a substantial improvement.
By contrast, the DR and FPS improvement in the Mark II are significant gains. You can never have too many FPS. I was shooting a baseball game last week with a 10fps Nikon D500, and definitely wanted more fps to catch the bat connecting with the ball.
Of course, $6000 is still too much $$.