Which is better: Canon EOS 50D with 70-200 f/4L lens or Nikon D90 with 18-105 f/3.5-5.6G AFS VR DX ED lens?
Posted by admin | Under Nikon D90 DX Tuesday Jun 2, 2009For general purpose use, but particularly for indoor portrait photography.
The Nikon is a bundled kit lens, the Canon kit lens was not recommended by reviewers due to producing "soft" images. I picked the 70-200 based on good reviews and price. I'm open to any brand/body/lens, but I'd like to stay under $1700 total. I'd like to be able to to do portraits (full body and close up) of babies and children, indoors.
The Nikon D90 is an excellent, sub-$1,000 camera. while the 18-105 mm VR lens will give you a medium wide angle to telephoto range, you may want to look at the 18-200 mm VR as the base lens for that camera.
The 50D with a 70-200 mm f/4 is a good combination, but what will you use for a lens from 18-70 mm, the wide angle (necessary to shoot groups and landscapes) to medium telephoto range?
You know of course that what Nikon calls its ED lenses are similar glass to the Canon 'L' lenses and the Nikon's AF-S lenses are what Canon calls USM lenses.
When shooting indoor portraits, the 18-200 mm will give you the most latitude from full body to tight head shots …. using the Canon 70-200 mm, you will have to stand back about 20 feet to get a full body shot
The Nikon D90 is an excellent, sub-$1,000 camera. while the 18-105 mm VR lens will give you a medium wide angle to telephoto range, you may want to look at the 18-200 mm VR as the base lens for that camera.
The 50D with a 70-200 mm f/4 is a good combination, but what will you use for a lens from 18-70 mm, the wide angle (necessary to shoot groups and landscapes) to medium telephoto range?
You know of course that what Nikon calls its ED lenses are similar glass to the Canon 'L' lenses and the Nikon's AF-S lenses are what Canon calls USM lenses.
When shooting indoor portraits, the 18-200 mm will give you the most latitude from full body to tight head shots …. using the Canon 70-200 mm, you will have to stand back about 20 feet to get a full body shot
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Ignoring the bodies, if I was in a position where I only had one lens, I would sooner the 18-105 to the 70-200 constant aperture.
In practical application, the shorter lens is far more useful – to me. I would use a long zoom about 20/30% of the time, the rest is short zoom or prime.
Why are you stuck with those lens choices – are they kits?
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i would recommend Canon EOS 50D 15.1MP Digital SLR Camera with EF-S 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 IS Standard Zoom Lens price $1,599.00
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and Nikon D90 Digital SLR Camera Body + Nikon 18-200mm VR Lens Price $1,739.95
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001KJ4EXY?ie=UTF8&tag=nop107-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B001KJ4EXY"
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Nikon D90 is an excellent choice.Take good picture quality for both light condition
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and good lens for portrait are Nikon 50 mm. or Nikon 18-200 mm.
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This comparison is about as apt as comparing a 70-200 lens with a 18-105.
The kit lens complaints on the 50d or any canon EOS tend to come when people don't use RAW mode. Solution, use RAW mode with the extra unsharp mask that this permits.
The 17-85mm & 70-200 f4 combination would cover just about everything you need, and one more thing, the EOS 40D is actually better than the 50D. Forget resolution statistics and think image quality.
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They're both good cameras so i'm basing my answer using the lens kit.
Since you want portrait the lens with 18-105 is the better deal. The 70-200mm lens is only useful for far away subjects. The eye sees at around 55 mm (3x optical zoom) and since you'll be starting of at 70mm you'll need to stand farther from the subject. It might not seem so bad but in portrait photography, getting close to the subject is way better than zooming into it. Also going farther decreases the light that comes in if youre using an artificial lighting source. Just like in theater, if youre in the middle row, taking a pictures becomes hell because the lights are turned off and the only light source comes from the stage itself.
My pick is the 18-105mm lens because it has the flexibility to be portrait acceptable wide angle to a mid telephoto zoom.
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