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- Location
- Austin, Texas
- Car(s)
- '07 GTI
I'm about to consign a bunch of OLD gear and will be buying a new DSLR body and some lenses. I will not be tied to one platform, so I am free to switch. If you were starting FROM SCRATCH, no investment in platform-specific gear right now, what would you get, a Nikon D300 or Canon 40D? (No, I'm not going to go full frame.)
- The 40D body is $500 less.
- I could be wrong, but my first impression is that equivalent lenses and accessories (flashes) for Nikon cost less.
- D300 has better feature set, supposedly better/faster focussing, better display, and better image quality (!)
- Nikon has Nikkor ED glass (in my biased opinion, ED > L)
- D300 has more pixels 12.3 vs. 10.5
- Both have 3" displays, but Nikon's is much higher resolution (922K vs 230K pixels)
- 40D is lighter (740g vs 825g)
- Both have a CMOS sensor now
Side-by-side spec comparison
http://www.photolectic.com/reviews/dslr/comparison-canon-40d-vs.-nikon-d300.html
D300 is Popular Photography's Camera of the Year
http://www.popphoto.com/cameras/4857/the-camera-of-the-year-2007.html
Here is a hands-on report on the Canon 40D (including a section entitled "What About The Nikon D300?")
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/cameras/canon-40D-handson.shtml
If you want to get über-geeky
http://theory.uchicago.edu/~ejm/pix/20d/posts/tests/D300_40D_tests/
I may have to build a spreadsheet like I did when deciding about my car. I'll be pulling the trigger on my purchase in early February.
If you have any input or opinions they would be appreciated. TIA!
- The 40D body is $500 less.
- I could be wrong, but my first impression is that equivalent lenses and accessories (flashes) for Nikon cost less.
- D300 has better feature set, supposedly better/faster focussing, better display, and better image quality (!)
- Nikon has Nikkor ED glass (in my biased opinion, ED > L)
- D300 has more pixels 12.3 vs. 10.5
- Both have 3" displays, but Nikon's is much higher resolution (922K vs 230K pixels)
- 40D is lighter (740g vs 825g)
- Both have a CMOS sensor now
Side-by-side spec comparison
http://www.photolectic.com/reviews/dslr/comparison-canon-40d-vs.-nikon-d300.html
D300 is Popular Photography's Camera of the Year
http://www.popphoto.com/cameras/4857/the-camera-of-the-year-2007.html
Here is a hands-on report on the Canon 40D (including a section entitled "What About The Nikon D300?")
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/cameras/canon-40D-handson.shtml
If you want to get über-geeky
http://theory.uchicago.edu/~ejm/pix/20d/posts/tests/D300_40D_tests/
I may have to build a spreadsheet like I did when deciding about my car. I'll be pulling the trigger on my purchase in early February.
If you have any input or opinions they would be appreciated. TIA!