1D MKII/MKII/1Ds vs D70

[Dans_D60]

I always knew that someday my second photographer (my son) may not be able to make it to a wedding shoot. Normally we use two 1D MKIIs for my son and me. Sometimes we use a 1Ds when a super wide shoot is required with the full frame.

The wedding we did a few weeks back I needed to hire a substitute as my son had a prior obligation. She was an experienced wedding photographer and her preferred equipment is the Nikon D70. I used the 1D MK IIs and 1Ds.

If the lighting was good (and it rarely is in weddings), all cameras performed fine. But, when the lighting conditions are challenging (bright sun, bight backgrounds, low light in reception hall, etc), the D70 was no comparison to the Canons. I understand the D70 is more on par with less expensive Canon models but this is what I had to deal with. Post processing was almost impossible with many of the D70 images. I like to crop all my images before I post the proof site and normally I can accomplish this task in an hour or two. Working with D70 images took all day and I needed to make several adjustments attempting to remove noise and push levels. Many of the D70 images were completely out of focus.

No big conclusion here … just interesting findings. I’ll stick with Canon

A few weddings using all Canon equipment:
http://danpettusproofs.com/johnson
http://danpettusproofs.com/huntoon

Wedding with both Canon and Nikon equipment: (the Nikon files are: dsc_*)
http://danpettusproofs.com/soria
Dan

[wilflee]

I had a similar experience some time ago with a movie shoot. We have 2 Canon XL2 cameras and needed a third. Being cheap we decided to hire a camera man with his own camera instead of renting another camera. The guy we hired had a Sony VX2200. Fine camera and a good cameraman but completely different color cast so we can't splice the scenes together. Of course, we couldn't afford to reshoot the scene. Ended up taking hours to color match the tapes.

Lesson learned. Don't let temporary hired help take control of your job. The hours we spent color matching the scenes we could have just bought another XL2 body.

[grego]

Originally Posted by Dans_D60

I always knew that someday my second photographer (my son) may not be able to make it to a wedding shoot. Normally we use two 1D MKIIs for my son and me. Sometimes we use a 1Ds when a super wide shoot is required with the full frame.

The wedding we did a few weeks back I needed to hire a substitute as my son had a prior obligation. She was an experienced wedding photographer and her preferred equipment is the Nikon D70. I used the 1D MK IIs and 1Ds.

If the lighting was good (and it rarely is in weddings), all cameras performed fine. But, when the lighting conditions are challenging (bright sun, bight backgrounds, low light in reception hall, etc), the D70 was no comparison to the Canons. I understand the D70 is more on par with less expensive Canon models but this is what I had to deal with. Post processing was almost impossible with many of the D70 images. I like to crop all my images before I post the proof site and normally I can accomplish this task in an hour or two. Working with D70 images took all day and I needed to make several adjustments attempting to remove noise and push levels. Many of the D70 images were completely out of focus.

No big conclusion here … just interesting findings. I’ll stick with Canon

A few weddings using all Canon equipment:
http://danpettusproofs.com/johnson
http://danpettusproofs.com/huntoon

Wedding with both Canon and Nikon equipment: (the Nikon files are: dsc_*)
http://danpettusproofs.com/soria
Dan

You also have to take into consideration the photographer when you mention that photos were completely out of focus along with the lens used. And then going with the lens, the worse the lens the more likely the high iso which leads to a lot of the noise.