Comments on: Streets at Night II – Nikon D3s!

By: PeterP

PeterP — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 06:55:40 +0000

@gamer I had them way to little time to tell you about the resolution between D3s and 1D mk4.

I like D3s movie better because it has better picture. The noise is more grain like not video noise. Canon has the whole rainbow in its noise. I like the full frame aspect which in connection to lower pixel count is better for low light than Canons high pixel count and 1.3 crop factor.
But then again Canon has 1080 24p, 25p, 30p and 720 50p, 60p and better codec, even though it is not working codec but a delivery one.
I wouldn’t buy any of them if I would seriously need them for video work.

But they are both great photographic cameras.

By: Sara Churchill

Sara Churchill — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 19:18:38 +0000

I seem to agree with gamer. The D3s shadow detail is cleaner to my eyes but obviously we are dealing with heavily resampled video clips. Im testing a MK4 now and will post samples on vimeo soon. Its an amazing camera but I feel the Nikon has a large edge in low light performance.

One thing is for sure, the 1.3 crop is garbage on the Canon. Having a nice Ziess MF 50mm F1.4 lens behave like a 65mm lens is aweful.

Thanks for sharing your videos!

By: gamer

gamer — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:55:29 +0000

thanks for the test!!!

so which do you like better the 1D4 or the D3s…. The D3s seems to have more shadow detail or was that the way it was shot. I hear the 1D4 isn’t super sharp 1080p but more like 720 in a 1080p wrapper… is the D3s anywhere close to the 1D4 resolution?

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