now that the 1dsmkIII id finally officially announced...with the stats we all knew it would have....great....
it will still be 4 months before we can buy one....but the field looks pretty much the same:
the 30+mpix DMbacks won't be seriously challenged by this....if you need the extra quality and don't mind the hassle and paying a premium for a slight but noticeable margin the phase, hass, leaf sinars are still on top....
the ZD back is looking long in the tooth...hard to justify, i would not want to do a comparison at 100....for the same price (body, lens,..) the canon is the winner....
the 5D is still the best camera ever built...price/quality ratio still amazing...just saw a editorial portrait a freind of mine shot with the 5D, available light, 400/maybe 800asa...full page, crisp, no noise, great color....nothing compares...
live-view/3" display: if canon can do this for 8000 (with a body, 22mpix/14bit sesor, 45 af sensors,...thrown in) WHY can't i have that on my phase? or anything close to that? everybody should check out the live-view of the 1dmkIII (with the canon software tethered) and write phase, leaf, sinar, hass a letter...this is turning into a cruel joke....canon includes the best tethered solution, MADE for studio/stilllife/highest quality in a 8mpix camera...i guess just to show that it can....this alone is a reason to throw my P30 into the trash.....but then i see the files on my screen and everything is ok again.....
there is a line in the canon announcement of automatic correction for CA,...for canon EF lenses in the new software......very interesting.....
why i thnk the P30 beats the canon hands down: WLF/finderimage through RZ and filequality....someone else mentioned this here before: DMF files need a lot less post production and hold up a LOT better to adjustments....