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Jared Polin, froknowsphoto.com and this is a side by side comparison of the specs between
the Nikon D5 and the Canon 1DX Mark II.
Now, remember this is a side by side comparison of the specs.
So, I'm going to give you my thoughts on which camera I think does better in which department
as we go down the list.
Now, these are the two flagship cameras that Nikon and Canon offers and let's get into
this and put the specs against each other.
The Nikon is $6499 with the Canon being $5999 itself.
So, which one wins there?
Well, the Canon is less expensive.
So, you've got to give it to the Canon on that side.
We have a 20.8 megapixel sensor in the Nikon and a 20.2 megapixel sensor in the Canon.
Now I can't sit here and tell you which one is going to be better until we use both of
them and put them side by side.
In terms of megapixels, they're both going to be about the same.
They're both new sensors and I expect great things from both of them.
The ISO for the Nikon natively is 100 to 102,400 where the Canon's ISO is 100 to 51200, which
means that the Nikon is going a stop further natively.
Now, which one is going to be better?
Of course, we have to see them side by side to see which ones are cleaner at what ISOs.
But let's talk about the expandable range.
The Nikon is expandable from 50 to 3,280,000 where the Canon is expandable from 50 to 409600.
Now does it mean anything that the Nikon goes to 3 million?
It means that you're going to see some Swiss cheese, but the determining factor will be
which one is cleaner at the lower ISOs.
So, if you're looking at which one is expandable further, obviously the Nikon is expandable
further, but that may not be a deal breaker determining to say go with Nikon versus Canon.
The Nikon does 12 frames a second or 14 frames a second with mirror lockup, where the Canon
does 14 frames a second or 16 frames a second in live view.
The Canon is absolutely blazing fast at 14 frames a second and the Nikon isn't too far
behind at 12.
That's a personal preference thing.
Of course, it's nice to have a little more.
That thing is absolutely fast on the Canon side.
So, check mark Canon right there.
Now, card side, Nikon has two different options that they offer for these cameras.
They have a camera that has two XQD and a camera that has two CF.
Now, on the Canon side, it offers one CF and one CFast 2.0 card.
I'm going to go ahead and give the Nikon the checkmark on this one for the XQD version,
not the CF version.
I wouldn't ever buy that.
I'd give it to the XQD version because it's two of the same cards.
If Canon offered two CFast 2.0 cards in their camera, I would have said it's a wash right
there.
The Nikon can do 200 RAW files in a row, where the Canon can do 170 RAW files in a row to
the CFast card, but only 73 to the compact flash card, which means which theoretically
I think means if you have a CFast card and a compact flash card shooting at the same
time saving the same thing, you're probably only going to get the 73 in a row, whereas
the Nikon you are going to get 200 in a row because it has two CFast cards.
Focus points, Nikon has 153 focus points, 99 of them cross type with Canon, only having
61 autofocus point with 41 of them being cross types.
They didn't really update that much from the 1DX, the original.
Now, in terms of how many there are and the cross type, whereas Nikon really pushed it
further with 153 and 99 cross types.
I'm going to go with on paper, the Nikon, for the extra cross type points.
The Nikon has an Expeed 5 Processor, where the Canon has a Dual Digic 6+ processor.
Two is better than one right, but other than that I really can't tell you, which one is
better, but I'll say two is better than one.
Give it to Canon.
Nikon -3 EV with all points and down the -4 EV for low light focusing with just the center
point focus.
Now, Canon says it does down to-3 EV.
They're going to be about the same.
They're not bad.
They both do a very good job with that.
Now, in terms of pre-selected algorithms for autofocus capabilities, the Canon has a ton
of different functions that you can select whether you're shooting action that is going
left to right or action that's coming towards you or whether you want to focus on, say,
a tennis player without focusing on the background and losing focus.
The Canons have always done a tremendous job in allowing you to fine-tune your autofocus,
whereas the Nikon doesn't have preset auto focusing algorithms like the sport selection
ones and the tweaking that you can do on the Canon side.
Now, you have a bunch of different options that you can do with the Canon in terms of
which focus points you want to use, whether it's the 9, the 23, the 59, and all of those
different things or 3D focusing, you just can't fine-tune it as much as the Canon.
So I'll go ahead and give a checkmark to the Canon on that side.
3.2-inch touchscreen, 3.2-inch touchscreen, they both have a 3.2-inch touchscreen.
No pro or con there on both sides.
Now, how is the body and feel of the D5?
It feels great in the hands.
Whereas, the Canon still even with some updates feels more like a brick in the hands.
It just feels thicker and bigger and a little heavier, not a deal breaker, but I'll give
the check mark to the Nikon because it just feels better in the hands.
What else do we have?
No GPS in the Nikon side and you have a GPS in the Canon side.
So, you can see those are the basic functions that I wanted to talk about when it came to
stills.
Now, let's get into the video.
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Now, let's look at the video and see what we have.
Nikon, 4K Ultra HD at 30 frames a second.
Canon does DCI Cinema 4K at 60 frames a second, which right off the bat is a trillion times
better than what the Nikon offers.
Nikon, three minutes to the XQD card in 4K in the Ultra HD 4K.
Not so good.
Now, that's as of right now maybe a firmware upgrade.
We’ll unleash that for longer.
It doesn't matter the specs suck for that.
Canon on the other side is doing 29, 59 to a CFast 2.0 card, so a lot depends on the
size of the card and how fast the card is that you're using.
But again it's doing 60 frames a second, which is absolutely incredible at 2959, triple,
quadruple check marks the Canon for the video right there.
Nikon does 1080 at 60 frames a second.
Canon, 1080 at 120 frames a second, burying the Nikon's video capabilities completely.
The Canon is crushing it right there.
You have Dual Pixel AF, which is an incredible function that Canon has in their higher end
cameras and also has it in their D70, what's it?
70D and that function is incredible.
Nikon has some sort of auto focusing for video, not nearly as good as what the Canon has.
You have Touch AF for the Canon, which is awesome.
I believe you have some touch capabilities with the Nikon for touching where you want
it to focus, but it's not going to compete with what the Canon does.
The Canon again has incredible focus capability because they have the ability to take the
technologies from the C100 Mark II, the C300 Mark II and put those into a camera like this.
The Canon is doing the 4K with motion Jpeg, which I'm being told is much better at a higher,
a much higher bit rate where the Nikon is doing MPEG, AVC, H.264, H.264 recording where
you got to give it to the Canon all day for the video capabilities, all day.
If you're looking for a camera that's going to be better in video, you're going to go
to the Canon.
It's hands down the better choice when it comes to shooting video between these two
flagship cameras.
Final thoughts: It's going to come down to this.
You have to ask yourself the question.
If you're already in bed with Nikon, you're sticking with the Nikon.
If you're in bed with Canon, you're already going with the Canon.
But if you're looking for a better still camera that's up in the air.
Some of the specs for stills are favoring the Nikon, especially with the autofocus capabilities,
a little more so than on the Canon side, but whichever one a professional puts in their
hands, they're going to get tremendous results.
For now on specs alone, I'll go with the Nikon side better for stills.
We know that the Canon is better for videos.
But if you're deciding that you do a lot of stills and you do a lot of video and you're
looking for both functionality, I don't think you can even look at the Nikon at that point
because of the video capability of the Canon, both of them are going to give you that ability
to do external recording to an [Indiscernible] [00:09:30] clean out, but the Canons just
do better video.
They have more bit rates.
They have a higher bit rate, which means you have more data.
More data is better for post-processing when it comes to video.
So, Nikon for the shooting, Canon for the video.
But if you're looking for both, you can't go wrong with the Canon.
Let's see.
Remember that these are just specs on a piece of paper.
They so happen to be specs on my piece of paper and the true test to determine which
are better is when you put it out into the real world and actually use it which we're
going to do.
Which one would I personally buy?
Well, I've ordered my Nikon D5 already.
I would consider purchasing a 1DX for the video capabilities to do the 4K at 2959.
I think we may go ahead and purchase one of those.
When it comes to shooting for action, it's going to be a crap shoot for both of them.
The determining thing is going to be whether this Nikon 153 focusing points with 99 cross
type is better than the Canon, if it can acquire better and it can really compete, that's going
to be something very interesting.
But I would buy both.
I mean, of course, not saying that if you have to choose one or the other.
I can't tell you which one I would choose over the other.
Other than I ordered the Nikon D4 already, because I'm already all set with my Nikon
glass, but I may purchase a 1DX as well for multiple reasons.
So, it's a crapshoot.
Those are specs on pieces of paper.
I hope you like the side by side comparison of just the specs.
Remember it's only the specs.
Only time can tell when these cameras come out and we put them in our hands and run through
its paces to determine which is better, if one is that far ahead of the other or not.
What do you guys think?
Which one wins for you?
If you could pick one of them, would it be the Nikon or the Canon?
Leave a comment down below letting me know which one you would go with.
And as always, thank you guys very much for watching.
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Jared Polin, froknowsphoto.com.
See you.