larrycumba

What has Nikon done to keep sales price 500.00 less than the Canon? If you went solely by megapixel count, the great unwashed, such as myself, would think the Nikon would be much more than the Canon.

snowbear

Perhaps Nikon has lowered the markup, hoping to recover some market share.

Here's a comparison:
http://mansurovs.com/nikon-d800-vs-canon-5d-mark-iii

MT Shooter Loc: Montana

Nikon is just selling their product at a fair value. Canon is following true to form with very high introduction prices, and then several price drops over the life run of the body.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

The people at Canon discovered that if they charge more for the camera, then they make more profit. Either that, or the Canon is lots better than the Nikon. "You get what you pay for"?

I thought it was odd that Canon came out with a camera similar to the D800, but decided to charge so much more.

larrycumba

If that's the case then Canon may wish they had been closer in price to begin with. It will be interesting to see if market share figures shift one way or another on price plus the big jump in resolution.

MT Shooter Loc: Montana

With the M3 at almost twice the cost of the M2 right now, I would think Canons sales figures are very slow at the moment. I know my local dealer has 6 of the M3's on the shelf for walk-in customers and they told me half their buyers on the waiting list elected not to buy due to the unexpectedly high price jump.

PhotoArtsLA Loc: Boynton Beach

The D800 has uncompressed video output, which puts it head and shoulders over any other DSLR for video and independent film purposes. Canon is unlikely to upgrade its DSLRs to uncompressed output due to the fact they have a serious video camera line which is a hybrid of their DSLRs but in a genuine video form factor. I have played with the Canon video camera, and it is a real competitor for 1080 production.

That said, the new video camera by Black Magic Design, which shoots RAW Digital Negative Files at 2.5K resolution having 13 f/stops of dynamic range with onboard SSD recording, a high resolution touch screen, and Canon / Zeiss-Nikon lens compatibility, all for just $3,000 with about $1,500 of software (Davinci Resolve Color Correction (the world standard) and Real Time Video Scopes) included in the price... this is the indie filmmaker dream deal of the century.

Black Magic Cinema Camera

Greg Loc: Maryland

You have access to FAR too much stuff. Send some our way ;)

bobby shaftoe

If you have Canon lenses that work, get the Canon. If not, get the Nikon if it's cheaper. Their picture qualities are similar.

fishone0 Loc: Kingman AZ

as an owner of the Canon MK II Canon sent me an email of a survey of what I wanted in a MK III and it sure wasn't a load of megapixels. Canon has produced a camera with the features we wanted.