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Nikon D200 or Canon 5D

Aug 14, '07 10:44 AM
for everyone

To buy or not to buy?
This question has lingered in my head for sometime lately.

What is best of Canon 5D, can you tell me? Or what Nikon D200 can offer?

What ever it is, do you have samples for me to view?

Tags: canon 5d, nikon d200

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troylim wrote on Aug 14, '07

I know 5D is full frame

bakli98 wrote on Aug 14, '07

Best about D200 is that it only burn 30-40% less hole in your pocket!

Best about 5D is that you will get FullFrame and you have to spend more to get FullFrame lense!

abcphoto wrote on Aug 14, '07

5D is much better than D200. And more expensive as well ;)

Benefit of Fullframe is all of EF lenses will deliver the quality on what they have been designed for.

38zeying wrote on Aug 15, '07

I'm Canon supporter, buy Canon.. hehe

piggylittle wrote on Aug 15, '07

SUPPORT NIKON D200... NIKON! NIKON! NIKON! NIKON! NIKON!

sunnysandotcom wrote on Aug 15, '07

it depend on what photo you gona deliver.
if you want to shoot event, fast shutter, I think you either go for 1D or 30D or D200(i am not so know about this camera, i believe this is a good camera as well)
Of course, if you are shoot more on portrait, then 5D is a king :D

studioku wrote on Aug 15, '07

How about the lenses budget? With Canon 5D price, U can get Nikon D200 with superb lenses like Nikkor 28-70mm f/2.8 or Nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8.

alextkt wrote on Aug 15, '07

I vote both :P

entrapnet wrote on Aug 15, '07

5D - Full frame cmos means... more detail!!!!

kengwoo wrote on Aug 15, '07

thanks all of you for ur comments and opinions. will read more about its features and what it can do for me.

kuenhoong wrote on Sep 9, '07

I am Canon user, kind of annoy by the 1.6x crop factor when sometime you needs to go wider or want to just play with 50mm prime. Full frame may be my choice. If you go D200, should compares with 30D for the same budget range... of cause you can always wait for the D300, 40D and see if you want to open up your choices... and if budget not a problem, all the way to D3 / 1D series :-p

kengwoo wrote on Sep 10, '07

kuenhoong said

Full frame may be my choice. If you go D200, should compares with 30D for the same budget range... of cause you can always wait for the D300, 40D and see if you want to open up your choices... and if budget not a problem, all the way to D3 / 1D series :-p

thanks for your opinion...budget is still my main constraints...i will wait ...

seontan wrote on Oct 19, '07

D200 cannot be compared to 5D, they are two different league.

Get the D3, it has better high ISO (according to the spec sheet) and can works with both full frame and digital (cropped) lenses. Nonetheless, I am a camera's whore, I will move with lighning speed to either camps if it does the job, and pay for itself. :)

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