Comments on: If You’re Looking To Buy A D800 Or 5DMK3 Watch This Video

By: MichaelMagpie

MichaelMagpie — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 08:14:00 +0000

Fortunately I am a photographer and not a videographer so all my issues relate to till images. Nikon should be making a separate high end video camera if they want to play that space or leave it to the specialists ! They have some work to do I agree.

By: MichaelMagpie

MichaelMagpie — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 08:13:00 +0000

So true Tobias.. these are great cameras for photography that are merely capable video cameras. I would think that any serious videographer would buy a specialist product for that purpose.

By: MichaelMagpie

MichaelMagpie — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 23:30:00 +0000

Fortunately I am a photographer and not a videographer. Nikon should be making a separate high end video camera if they want to play that space.

By: Tobias Solem

Tobias Solem — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 17:27:00 +0000

It’s funny how a lot of people are focusing more on the video aspects of the cameras when both primarily are best at photography.

By: Tobias Solem

Tobias Solem — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 17:27:00 +0000

It’s funny how a lot of people are focusing more on the video aspects of the cameras when both primarily are best at photography.

By: Corey Melton

Corey Melton — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 15:19:00 +0000

I used the d800 for 2 weeks while filming a show in europe and it gave me great images. I think it is a fantastic camera. I also own the d4, and i love it. But the video on the D4 is ONLY usable in the 2.7x crop mode at 1080. It is a TERRIBLE video dslr until they hopefully fix this in firmware updates. everything other than the settings i just told you are soft and terrible, The d800 has great video in all 1080 modes, but bad aliasing at 720. Oh well, back to the drawing board Nikon :(

By: Corey Melton

Corey Melton — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 15:19:00 +0000

By: MichaelMagpie

MichaelMagpie — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 12:04:00 +0000

Had a D800 for a few weeks thinking I was getting a great studio/non frame rate critical camera with beautiful output. Unfortunately for me it was not the camera it is cracked up to be. It is on its way back to Nikon so they can see why the images were all soft, colour cast was ugly and the depth of field was clearly unwell. I stumped up the extra for the D4 in exchange and have been blown away on both stills and video front. Anyone who can afford the $$$, get the D4 and never look back.

By: Tobias Solem

Tobias Solem — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 05:55:00 +0000

Why would you buy these cameras for video? Money. They’re cheaper and have “things” that are better (like portability, more affordable lenses, etc.).

By: thegoldfi

thegoldfi — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 23:31:00 +0000

my guess is that most people will buy the 5dmk3 for video because people are stuck in their ways and Nikon is the new guy on the block.