Top 4 full frame DSLRs
Digital Photographer reveals its top full frame DSLRs
1. Canon Eos 5D Mark II The 5D Mk II is well over two years old now, but it still offers 21MP from its full frame sensor at a competitive price. You also get full HD movies with full manual control. At a price of around £1,650 it undercuts most of its rivals too.
2. Nikon D3s It’s only got a 12 MP (the D3x has 24MP), but the D3s’s high ISO performance is truly astonishing. It can also shoot at 9fps (11fps with DX-format lenses in crop mode), which is a huge achievement for a camera with a full size mirror/shutter mechanism.
3. Sony Alpha A850 Sony’s second stab at the full-frame SLR is a watered-down version of the A900 SLR. The £2,000 price and 24MP made headlines when it was launched.
4. Leica M9 Leica has at last engineered a full frame version of is M-series rangefinder cameras. It looks and works just like an M-series camera, but with a sensor rather then film, and takes classic Leica lenses too.
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Altho a combination of the lack of an anti-aliasing filter, and almost peerless optics, make for such sharp pictures, the rangefinder is a truly odd experience, and takes a deal of getting used to. It is
also an incredibly HEAVY camera for such a small size. Hopefully the SanDisk problem has been
straightened out by now (write-failure to some SanDisk products)? I like a Leica – who doesn’t?
At £4,000+ you’d get a whole lot more of Nikon or Canon… still, unarguably sharp pictures from the Leica, once you’ve toughed-out the rangefinder.
leica at £4k+ is simply not an option for me. i’ve invested in the 5d(mk2) and a couple of L series lenses, and keep the flexibility of using all the cheap 3rd party accessories for the camera too. china is so good at producing those.
there are always things i’d change about any camera i’ve owned, but as i keep reading, the important part of the whole system is the photographer, not the equipment, and i agree with that wholeheartedly as friends who own point-and-shoot cameras have produced results both artistically and technically better than myself using the “big kit”. the answer as always is “learn to do photography before upgrading your kit” (unless money is no object in which case buy one of each) as so often it doesnt show results if you do it the other way around (ie buying fantastic kit and being clueless). (ps i started out the clueless route, and its taken me a good 30+ years to even begin to produce results, so i write from some amount of personal experience). Good luck with your kit choices, and enjoy your photography to the max.