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UPDATED 7 JAN 2009: I have created a much updated and expanded version of this image, which includes the current Nikon and Canon DSLRs as of January 2009, as well as competing models from Sony/Minolta, Olympus, Panasonic/Leica, and Pentax, as well as others. You may wish to check that out instead. See my blog post too.
Publicity photos © 2007 Nikon and Canon. Relative sizes are not exact. Top left camera costs about $650, with lens. Lower right camera costs about $8000, no lens. See the blog post I wrote about them.
The top row of this image became obsolete as early as February 2008, since Canon introduced the Rebel XSi (a.k.a. the 450D) and Nikon the D60. As of later in 2008, Canon replaced the 40D with the 50D. There are also the new D700 from Nikon, and the Canon EOS 5D Mark II, which replaced the original full-frame 5D.
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Grimax 52 months ago
Thanks for the help i think ill go for the canon 50d.... i even look at the review of Pentax K20D...im quite impress with the feature and also the price... as ive decided to go for the canon 50d...its has empty my pocket so i have to decide for the lens... so could you advice which lens i would go for ...without compromising the picture quality....... which would better ... i was hoping canon 28-135mm IS USM or should i go for canon 18-200mm ... do recoment some lens which will be good with canon 50d...
Derek K. Miller 52 months ago
Personally, if I only bought one lens, I'd get the EF 50mm f/1.4:
www.dpreview.com/lensreviews/canon_50_1p4_c16/
But I'm kind of old-school. I find a solid fast prime lens to be the best way to get started. But you don't have to go that hard-core. You can get any of the zooms (the 18-200mm IS is a very useful general-purpose walk-around lens) AND the very inexpensive but still good quality 50mm f/1.8 (only $100!), and get the best of both worlds.
www.dpreview.com/lensreviews/canon_18-200_3p5-5p6_is_c16
www.dpreview.com/lensreviews/canon_50_1p8_ii_c16/
Judge Rock 52 months ago
I started out in the 60s with a Yashica and in the 70s moved to a Nikon F-1. They mostly sat unused as my life was busy and I did not shoot enough pictures.
With the advent of digital cameras and my pending retirement I have found photography again and I now have and USE about $30,000 worth of Canon cameras and lenses. I can't compare Canon against Nikon digital cameras as I have never used Nikon digital. What I have compared is the results of both and clearly with the right photographer either will produce excellent results.
It is unlikely that I will ever change back to Nikon, not because of Canon chauvanism but because of the huge investment I have in lenses and other accessories.
Derek K. Miller 49 months ago
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