TECHNICAL PERFORMANCE

The first part was the field test. The idea here was to check the various exposure metering, autofocussing speed, autofocussing accuracy, frames per second rate, and general handling of the cameras. It should be noted here that AF speed and accuracy, and accuracy of exposure metering were not done using any scientific instrument and hence your personal experience may differ slightly. Both the cameras were then used in the studio. Pictures were shot using the supplied 50mm lenses. This was basically done to critically check image sharpness.

EXPOSURE METERING

We compared the exposure metering of both the cameras. Results were consistent most of the time, though sometimes, the Canon provided about 0.5 stop more exposure for the same subject (we could say that since, under similar lighting conditions, sometimes, the Canon images were lighter). This could be due to the slightly different weightage for the exposure meters. Overall, we were satisfied and have no reason to complain.

AUTOFOCUSSING

AF was very fast and accurate with both the cameras and I doubt, without using scientific equipment, if anyone can actually compare the AF speed. Having said that, we felt that the Nikon focussed very slightly faster than the Canon (when using the two 50mm lenses mentioned in the review). We also noted that the Nikon lens – AF-S Nikkor 50mm 1:1.4G – autofocussed very silently as compared to the Canon EF 50mm 1:1.4. This may be because the Canon lens was an older version with no internal focussing. Of course, in practical use, this does not really matter.

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