Nikon D800 vs Canon 5D Mark III

ken rockwell'e göre mark III, D800'den de D4'ten de iyi
D800'ün iso 3200 ve D4 iso 6400 noise oranı
mark III'ün 25600 iso'daki noise oranına eşit...

yaklaşık 12000 civarlarındaki noise oranına kıyaslarsak eğer,
yine dediğim gibi, D800, 800 iso'da çakılmaya başlıyor...

yine rockwell testinde düştüğü not;

"I prefer my Canon. I only keep my D800E around for testing Nikon lenses."

ilginç bir cümle: )



Better in Low Light

At normal image sizes as opposed to the insane blowup sample images I shared months ago, my 5D Mark III cranks out very usable images at ISO 25,600, while the D800 and D800E are much noisier in actual use in the dark. The D800 might be sharper at stupid ISOs, while the actual images from my 5D Mark III are perfectly smooth and usable at ISO 25,600.

Pop Photo Magazine found the same thing in its June and July 2012 issues where they tested the D800, D4 and 5D Mark III.

Agreeing entirely with my own real-world experience, is that the 5D Mark III is better than D800, and even better than the D4 at high ISOs. To keep their advertiser Nikon happy I presume, they didn't run the D4 test in the same issue as the 5D Mark III, but since I had them both in my lap at the same time, I saw that the D800 had "moderate" noise at ISO 3,200, the D4 made it to ISO 6,400 at "moderately low" noise, while the 5D Mark III made it to ISO 25,600 at the same "moderate" noise level!

At ISO 25,600, at which I shoot my 5D Mark III with action in the dark with a slow zoom, the 5D Mark III is rated as having "moderate" noise, while both the D4 and D800 are rated as UNACCEPTABLE even down at ISO 12,800!

My 5D Mark III is so good at high ISOs that it renders f/2.8 zooms obsolete. Lightweight and even plastic f/4-5.6 zooms are fast enough at the ISOs I can now use, and if I need shallow depth of field, I use a lightweight and even faster fixed lens for even better results than an f/2.8 L zoom.

Just like when megapixels went insane and rendered long lenses obsolete since you can crop and the camera makers suddenly shut up about that, you probably won't hear Canon telling you to Adorama your L zooms, buy the plastic midprice EF lenses of the 1990s that they don't make anymore instead, and pocket the cash. No longer do we need fast lenses for low-light with the Mark III; f/1.4 wide lenses are now obsolete except for 35mm shooting.