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Nikon or Canon

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TheMafioso

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Hello,
I need to buy a 4 MegaPixel's camera. I narrowed down my choices to either Nikon Coolpix 4100 or Canon powershot a85.
As i am already extending my budget, i want to get the cheaper one, which happens to be Nikon here and that too by a good margin, but everybody(or rather most websites) say Canon's DigiCams are better.As i'm a newbie to Digicams, can't really decide which to go for.So i want to know, if Canon's worth the extra dough or the quality differences b/w the two are too small, only visible to the trained eyes
 
i have a nikon 5200, and i really like it. it wasn't my first choice, but i found at an amazing price. i've grown to love it. great clear shots, lots of features i wasn't even aware of when i bought it, and it uses SD cards. more and more devices seem to be going to SD as the prefered design of flash memory, including the new line of small canon cameras. i like that the media is interchangeable with pda's, some mp3 players, etc. not to mention most current laptops.

so i'd vote for the nikon, but yeah i am a little biased.
 
Canon's cameras aren't universally better than Nikon's, or any other manufacturer's, despite what the Canon fanboys parrot. Don't be mistaken, they aren't bad by any means, but it's good to consider other options. With that said, if you're going to compare only those two models which you have listed, then the Canon does come out ahead in terms of flexibility. If you want to find out what the differences are, I suggest DPReview, the website that is for cameras what AnandTech is for computers. They have a convenient comparison chart that lets us quickly and efficiently see the differences between the A85 and 4100.
 
I have both an old Nikon Coolpix and a Canon A75. Both a re good cameras, although my Nikon is starting to show its age. I very much like my A75, and would give a big thumbs up for you to get the A85. They are very solidly built. I dropped my A75 down a small flight (about 4 steps) of stone stairs in a castle in Poland last summer. Scratched it up real good and a small piece of the housing chipped off. I thought surely the optics would be messed up, but it takes as good pictures now as before.
 
Don't forget to take a look at Minolta. They may not lead the curve on features but the quality of their images is almost always in the Very Good to Excellent bracket.

.bh..
 
Okay thanx for the replies guys, and that was very good link ProviaFan 🙂 . Minolta is not easily available in my country.
A thing i noticed in comparing the two cameras is min shutter speed of Nikon is 4 sec. while Canon one is 15 sec.Though the max shutter is for canon is 1/2000 while Nikon is 1/3000. So would this mean, Canon Camera takes a longer to shoot a photograph than Nikon.
 
Originally posted by: TheMafioso
Okay thanx for the replies guys, and that was very good link ProviaFan 🙂 . Minolta is not easily available in my country.
A thing i noticed in comparing the two cameras is min shutter speed of Nikon is 4 sec. while Canon one is 15 sec.Though the max shutter is for canon is 1/2000 while Nikon is 1/3000. So would this mean, Canon Camera takes a longer to shoot a photograph than Nikon.
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Not really. You should read a basic photography tutorial covering exposure to understand this fully, but evidently the Canon can take photos in lower light than the Nikon. With either camera, you should be using a tripod for those long exposures, because there's no way you can hold the camera steady for that long, even if you have it on a beanbag on a car hood or something like that.

I wouldn't be too concerned about the 1/3000 on the Nikon vs. Canon's 1/2000. On my Nikon D1, I really have to get in special circumstances to need anything over 1/2000, and only once did I hit 1/10000 (the D1 goes up to 1/16000 maximum). Bear in mind that the situation that required a 1/10000 shutter speed also required the very quick (~50ms) reaction time of a professional DSLR. By the time anyone's P&S shutter fired, the model rocket would have been many meters out of the frame. 😉

I still think that between the two, the Canon is the better choice. However, for the kind of photography you'll probably be doing, the Nikon certainly won't disappoint either.
 
Originally posted by: Rottie
I like Canon for the better color quality for print out.
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There are so many variables between the capture and reproduction of an image that an assumption like this is totally unfounded. Unless your system is entirely color managed (including the US$1000 photospectrometer to calibrate your printer) then you can't really talk about one camera having "better" colors than the other - because none of them are going to be "true" in an absolute sense. 🙂
 
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