Nikon D3s vs Canon 1D Mk IV: Product Reviews: Adorama Photography TV
Sep 03, 2010 in
Canon
Adorama Photography TV presents Nikon D3s vs Canon 1D Mk IV! This week, Mark Wallace puts both the Nikon D3S and Canon 1D Mark IV to the test. Both cameras are tough, robust and built with a spec list sure to impress photographers who need accurate, high-speed performance they can rely on. For product details and related Adorama Learning Center articles, go to www.adorama.com Visit www.adorama.com for more photography videos! E-mail your questions to AskMark@Adorama.com
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25 comments
rustynasty143 on July 13, 2010 at 3:33 am
this is very clear review, in low light situation if your camera cant focus fast enough you miss the moment in time, so i will stick with canon for fast focusing in low light and i think noise in high iso is good enough for wedding events.
Sk8man1983 on July 17, 2010 at 5:11 pm
fantastic review. very fair and over-viewing.
did you notice that Nikon won the Canon by 5 to 2 :)
feryjory on July 18, 2010 at 11:44 am
very helpful review mark, thanks
plus16hrs on July 18, 2010 at 4:11 pm
shit man…. i’d take either, hahaha
reallypoopypants on July 21, 2010 at 6:18 pm
Easily the best side-by-side review of the two cameras. Thanks for the unbiased, straightforward feedback!
Lardinio on July 21, 2010 at 6:20 pm
surprised the Nikon’s AF struggled compared to the canon, but a fair review of each camera.
deaddogcrippleman on July 22, 2010 at 3:01 am
nice review but then again maybe you could have shared some photos :)
MrMackowski on July 23, 2010 at 12:46 am
I have D3s and i love FX sensor in it.
tuckerjeffrey on July 30, 2010 at 4:04 pm
Very well done video, are you ever going to have the D3s in stock @ Adorama? I hope you continue these video’s in the future and hopefully you will include your comments about picture quality or some samples and explain what software is required for video since this is relatively new for some of us. Again, thanks for the very well done video.
LeicaMy on August 3, 2010 at 12:31 pm
No you forgot to show something !! And it is so important for a photographer who need to be very fast… Changing focus points with a Canon first you have to push another button than you can select from the wheel and this is one of the ‘whys’ Canon is nothing to me…
Nikon is great to change to focus points between two rapid frames… Of course we’ll not become a Bresson after all bit if this cameraa in the market these are important…
was one of my reason why I sell my Canon for a Nikon
LeicaMy on August 3, 2010 at 12:49 pm
Also after long time I see that Ergonomics with these eos1 series is very bad. Made pain in my arm…
Also no one talk about lens bodies…
I droped my lowepro bag from 80 cm and my Canon 50 mm lens inside it get broken : )
Buy Nikon, Use strong Nikon lenses and don’t care anymore megapixels and RGB jpg’s on the screen, after all Canon and Nikon images are same when u publish them on a magazine page or on a photo paper…
KyserPhoto10 on August 5, 2010 at 10:22 pm
@LeicaMy
You can set up Canon to do the same, no need to push a button to move focus point. Canon just gives you a choice.
LeicaMy on August 5, 2010 at 11:01 pm
Soon this Megapixel bullshits will be also over because slowly slowly people see actually they don’t need more pixels because results are same and more pixels adds nothing into to the image after a size… After all this things I just need simplicity to catch the right moment…. And according to me a Nikon body right decision for this…
Best
LeicaMy on August 5, 2010 at 11:02 pm
@KyserPhoto10
I am trying to explain all these things here like stupid techno guys but these are my real experiences and I really like Nikon simple design… As you know when we print them there are no difference between Canon and Nikon images…
LeicaMy on August 5, 2010 at 11:02 pm
Also this tiny joystick is very useless in the action too
Also 5D mark II’s rest of the focus points around the center are always missing the focus… This is made me really sad and I am not trusting this Canon company anymore. This is not ‘ user friendly design ‘ as they said.
LeicaMy on August 5, 2010 at 11:03 pm
Hey thank you for your reply,
Yes you are right but at ‘Quick Control Dial Direct’ position accidentally it is jumping to the multi-focus auto position.
At ‘ Multi Controller Dial Direct ‘ I can choose all points but only except center point, this is totally useless…
At the end I am trying to choose ‘ Normal ‘ position… But at Normal I have to push another button to change the focus point. This makes a delay to me.
f4saken on August 12, 2010 at 10:00 pm
iso 12800 with no noise? nznznznznz not really, there’s a lot of noise in the mid-tones at 12000 =)
georgepahountis on August 13, 2010 at 5:12 pm
@rustynasty143 I m a canon user…lots of L glass…
I still wished I could get the d3… :((
nyambe on August 20, 2010 at 11:34 am
Now, here is a brave man!!! u just won a bunch of points in my book.
Recon9143 on August 21, 2010 at 4:10 am
gotta love the red ring around canon lenses…
rustynasty143 on August 21, 2010 at 11:58 pm
@georgepahountis i couldn’t care less.
ryos on August 30, 2010 at 3:57 am
Thank you for the thorough reviews.
vyruzdatabass on September 1, 2010 at 1:45 pm
very informative
lorikzzz on September 1, 2010 at 3:42 pm
@Recon9143 gold ring on NIKON
dhimmelsbach on September 1, 2010 at 10:12 pm
Thank you for the insight on each camera. I’m looking to purchase one of these cameras with in the next few months and appreciate an unbiased look at the pros and cons to each product.