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I'm not sure how true this now, but a few years ago the idea was that in general Canon had the edge (and it does have the marketshare) but Nikon was better at l
by yladiz 9y ago
I'm not sure how true this now, but a few years ago the idea was that in general Canon had the edge (and it does have the marketshare) but Nikon was better at low-light, non sports, and had somewhat better quality for the price, whereas Canon was better as sports, video, and had a larger range of lenses. This is why I chose a Nikon D7000 about 7 years ago. If I knew what I knew about my preferences now, back then, I would have gone with something lighter and smaller, like a Pentax or Olympus.
If I were to choose today, I'd go with a Sony mirrorless instead since that seems to be where the market is going and Canon/Nikon are slow to catch up to mirrorless cameras. The nicer Sony A series mirrorless cameras are perfect for my use cases (I don't do sports, and generally like low light or underexposing my photos, I'd like to have full frame, and I really prefer something light), whereas fitting these criteria is difficult/not possible with Canon or Nikon, primarily the competing lightness and full frame aspects.
- ilovecars2 9y agoI just bought an A6000 mirrorless camera and love it! I’ve had it for a couple of weeks and so far it’s been great. Low light shooting is excellent and 1080p 60FPS video is nice. I don’t care for the integrated WiFi so don’t use it.
- culot 9y agoThe a6000 is the value champion. It amazing that they can sell it for $600. That you can get a Sony a7 for only $800 is likewise amazing. Such stellar image quality for so little bank. It'll be interesting to see Canon and Nikon enter the mirrorless camera space in earnest. Hmm.
- opencl 9y agoI bought a NEX-6 for ~$450 4 years ago and am shocked at the total lack of improvement at that price bracket since then. Of course this was right after the price dropped in response to the A6000. The A6000 is definitely nice but actually has a few regressions compared to the NEX-6, with a lower-resolution viewfinder and losing the electronic level.
- Yhippa 9y agoDid you evaluate any Olympus, Pentax, or Fuji models? I'm looking into mirrorless cameras now too.