In 2016 the newest Canon 7D Mk II and 5DS are about 7 years ahead of Nikon in terms of ergonomics and usability. In 2012, the Canon 5D Mk III was clearly better than Nikon's best, and still is today. Canon has been innovating while Nikon has been marketing. The D810 today still has the same problems as the D700 did in 2007, but removed some of the D700's AF controls! While Nikon has been resting on its laurels since 2008 and has just been slopping more pixels over the same basic camera with each new model number, each new Canon since 2008 has fixed 85% of everything I found lacking in each previous model. Nikon's D800 and D800E came out around the same time and offered more pixels, but to Nikon users' horror, it was the same camera underneath as every other Nikon, minus some of the autofocus controls of earlier cameras. The Canon 5D Mk II of late 2008 was a huge improvement over the original 5D, and thus Canon and Nikon were neck-and neck from 2008 until about 2012.Ĭanon introduced the Canon 5D Mk III in 2012 which again was a huge step ahead in usability over its predecessor. The bad news today is that Nikon hasn't introduced any significant innovations since 2007, while Canon has been working long and hard and getting better with each new model. Canon played catch up for quite a few years, and even as recently as 2008 Canon's top consumer DSLR, the Canon 5D, was well behind Nikon's top new D700. When DSLRs became practical, Nikon was again the leader with the world's first practical DSLR, the Nikon D1 of 1999.
#BETTER THAN SYSTEM LENS PRO#
Therefore Canon sped past Nikon in the 1990s as the pro 35mm camera of choice for pro news and sports shooting. Nikon's AF system had to be designed around backwards-compatibility with all the existing lenses owned by pro shooters and was therefore clunky, but Canon threw compatibility out the window and created an all-new 100% electronic system that was far superior. Back in the 1960s thorough the 1990s Nikon was the undisputed leader for pro news and sports shooting, but Canon's brand-new EOS autofocus system of 1987 eventually worked far better than Nikon's autofocus system.
I've been shooting Nikon and Canon continuously since the 1980s. If you already have one or the other, there's no reason to jump ship unless you're not that invested in one side, or if some new lens or camera is just so gotta-have-it for you that it's worthwhile. If you're starting out, go Canon today: it's not just their products, but also their attitude towards us, their customers. The two are pretty similar in the middle and low end of the APS-C world. Today, Canon leads in full-frame and the high end APS-C cameras. Which is best depends on what's important to you, and will vary as the years roll on.
#BETTER THAN SYSTEM LENS PROFESSIONAL#
They both make a huge range of products from multi-million dollar optical systems for industry to fully professional cameras to consumer cameras and point-and-shoots. Depending on what you're trying to do, one or the other will be better, but overall, each has many, many decades of experience cranking out quality products. Nikon and Canon are highly competitive with each other.
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