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D800 vs 5D Mark III Portrait Shootout Video

bradhusick

Active member
In the long term if you're depending purely on other companies for your sensors you will be at the mercy of their situations. Are you listening Leica?
 

Lee Love

New member
Every company depends on a supply of technology from around the world. I am confident Sony's OEM division has nothing to do with their camera group. An OEM group is chartered with building and selling as many of the products they develop as possible.

Remember there is not a single company that makes every chip or component of their product. So regardless of where the parts come from, the winners are those that can integrate, market and sell the best combination of those elements.

But the real wizard behind the curtain is the processors camera manufacturers are putting in their products. A sensor can only do so much but it is the real time processing speed that has given Canon and Nikon the ability to achieve huge data rates (i.e. large pixel count) and image processing and noise reduction.

The bottom line is market capitalization or who manufacturers a sensor is irrelevant to a photographer. Also remember, the pro market is the smallest and least profitable part of the industry. Nikon and Canon make a lot more money selling point and shoots to a world wide market than a few hundred thousand pro cameras.
 

FredBGG

Not Available
How do you know?
Just look at the increasing amount of Phase One, Mamiya and Hasselblad cameras for sale on ebay and the forums.

IF you put together the image quality and features of the D800 it'a impressive.

It will really make the short coming of MF more evident, in particular the bodies.

I think Guy's examples here demonstrate how the D800 can give you at least what way more expensive
mid level medium format can IQ wise and in situations where a MF Digital would not be practical at all.

And we have yet to see the D800E

Then there is the sleeping giant... Fuji.

Can you imagine the Fuji X-pro 1 scaled up to MF with live view, face detection, no moiree issues.
Fuji certainly has all the MF to large format know how. Can you imagine what a mini gx680 with full tilt and shift
with a live view touch screen body would be like.
 

ptomsu

Workshop Member
Then there is the sleeping giant... Fuji.

Can you imagine the Fuji X-pro 1 scaled up to MF with live view, face detection, no moiree issues.
Fuji certainly has all the MF to large format know how. Can you imagine what a mini gx680 with full tilt and shift
with a live view touch screen body would be like.
++1

Peter
 
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