I have been in quest for the perfect camera over the last decade and manufacturers keep amaze me with what they can do when they push the limits of technologies.

With the recent release of the new SLRs, I am thinking of the Canon 5D Mark III and the 1Dx along with Nikon’s new line of full frame sensors D800, D800e and D4. The world is once again wondering who would be the best camera for any job.

From a personal point of view, I’d say that the best camera for you would be the one which would allow you to do your job. Some people out there take more than decent pictures with their phone cameras when other people would just not have a clue on how to set their $$$ cameras on second curtain sync mode. And that’s perfectly fine… until someone asks to sniff the Exif of the file, and there will always be at least one.

iPhone silver award image by Thierry Nguyen Cuu

If the Nikon D800 (or D800E) is as good as a Hasselblad H4D then this should not mean that the H4D is bad. You would normally try to compare apple with apple.

Does it make any sense to say that a full frame SLR is better than a medium format camera?

 

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