7d Vs D300s (vs Pentax k7) In Feb 2010 Digital Photo magazine

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Although to me the magazine seems heavily biased towards Nikon cameras, the 7d comes out as the 'What to buy' in the tests.
Both the 7d and the d300s come out with 5 stars from the test.
The pentax is reported as being very good value for money, at under £1000, but unable to compete in the tougher areas compared with the other two.

What is strange, is that the performance of the 7d is knocked, but the pictures (printed) in general look better at the ISO tests (more detail, less soft), and the reviewer states that there is much more detail at A2 compared to the D300s. Colour balance is off on the 7d, this might be down to processing?

Under the verdict, it is recommended (it seems), that if you have the d300, it isn't really worth the upgrade to the s (no surprised).

What is a pity, is that the review didn't come out last month. I suspect it would have helped a lot of people, isn't really a lot of use today.

Might be worth a read to any people undecided. I think the consensus is, if you have an existing system, you wouldn't really be disappointed keeping your system rather than changing over.

(edit: changed the date: :razz:)
 
Interesting that the review was in Feb 2009 Digital Photo magazine, perhaps the 7D has a time travel feature that I've missed, since the camera wasn't even launched then :lol:
 
The article states a green tinge to the picture. I know several of the conversion programs I used have a definite green tinge compared to DPP.
The article says the pentax colour is good, but too warm.

I think either of these, if you know it is there, should be correctable to some extent.
 
When I moved over from Nikon to Canon the thing I noticed most was the poor Auto WB performance. For whatever reason Canon cannot get it quite right and things are particularly bad inder artificial lighting. Fortunately shooting RAW or using manual WB easily solves the issue. The next biggest loss was relative AF performance, but the 7D has resolved most of that as well.

Canon does seem to be winning the pixel density / ISO battle at the moment. Considering the 7D has 50% more pixels on a smaller sensor (1.6 crop vs 1.5), it does extremely well to match the D300s at high ISO's. Perhaps Nikon will exceed Canon's "Gapless Pixel" technology with future body releases.
 
coldpenguin said:
Although to me the magazine seems heavily biased towards Nikon cameras, the 7d comes out as the 'What to buy' in the tests.
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It would be a real kick in the teeth for Canon if it didn't, considering the D300s is basically a 2 year old design with a video feature grafted on....
 
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