Scott Kelby's Top Five List For Everything

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Five Cameras I’ve Been Really Impressed With:

1. The Nikon D3 (I think it’s the best DSLR ever made)

2. The Canon EOS 1D Mark III (If it weren’t for the D3, I’d be shooting this)

3. The Nikon D300 (Ridiculous bang for the buck)

4. The Canon 40D (A pro-quality camera at a great price)

5. The Canon G9 Point & Shoot (Probably the best point and shoot ever).

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Five other software apps I use:

1. Apple’s iPhoto (for photo slideshows)

2. Apple’s Aperture (for making photo books)

3. Keynote (for slide presentations)

4. Toast (for burning CDs and DVDs)

5. Nikon Camera Control Pro 2 (for shooting tethered into my Mac)

Complete list.

John Harrington: Nikon D3 Vs. Canon Mark III

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"I feel that the Megapixel race is over, and that it's no longer about chip sizes, especially since Nikon has essentially returned to Full-frame with their FX sensor. It's going to be clarity and fidelity and bit-depth moving forward..."

"For large commercial jobs, where I am thinking I want a higher native resolution, it'll be the Canon I reach for. For low light situations, which are all too common, it will, without a doubt, be Nikon. In fact, with the noise issue out of the way, and most client deliverables needing to be down-rezzed anyway, I can see that the Nikon not only would be a better solution to speeding up my post-production process, but moreover, storing the RAW/DNG files will save me significant hard-drive space in my archives over the larger Canon files.

"Will the Mark III have issues it's earlier Mark III siblings had? I hope not. Will Nikon have an as-yet-unknown issue? Who knows. We're all their guinea pigs, shelling out thousands to fuel their R&D, with the consumers being the beneficiaries.

"Advantage? Photo Finish - Nikon by a nose, for what I do."

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Canon 1Ds MKIII Vs. Nikon D3, D300

I've been wondering how Canon's 1Ds MKIII compared to Nikon's recently released D3 and D300 (which I recently bought and love). An interesting comparison can be found here. This photographer's conclusion: "Based on initial impressions of the D300, and now their first full-frame CMOS camera, the D3, Nikon is now back in the IQ game. Canon has enjoyed a deserved reputation for high image quality, especially at high ISO. But now with the D3 Nikon has upped the ante, producing a camera that appears to offer lower noise than Canon (at least against the flagship 1Ds MKIII), and higher available speeds as well."