Dave Dugdale’s 5D Mark III vs Nikon D800 Comparison

May 23, 2012

in Canon,Gear,Nikon

I STILL haven’t had a chance to mess around with the Canon 5D Mark III yet, but my good friend Dave Dugdale has done a great comparison between the 5D and the Nikon D800. Check it out below.

The 5D Mark III has been in and out of stock but it looks like Amazon has them in stock for now.

Canon 5D Mark III

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Tagged as: 5D MkIII, Canon, D800, Nikon, Review

  • Diego

    Great video review! Still a fan the Canons.

  • Kyle

    The point against the D800 stopping for 2 min after shooting 16 frames is 100% absolutely your old SD card.  I used a SanDisk Extreme Pro 45MB/s 16 gig card.  After the initial 16 frames it continued to shoot once every second and a half or so… and never stopped.  If I let it pause for 4-5 seconds it was back up to being able to shoot 4fps.  The only reason I can think of the discrepancy you had with your card is simply because the D800s HUGE 36 megpixel files are much much larger than the MkIIIs and so therefor took much longer to write onto your card.  Also, I’m a shooter in Boulder as well, we should grab coffee at the Laughing Goat or other coffee shop and talk tech!

  • Mysticsniper9

    Cheers Dave,thanks for doing that.

  • LeeADye

    Enjoyed the video, well balanced. Would prefer you used a newer card.  I just sold my 5DMII and all of my L lenses and going with the D800 which should ship shortly. Resolving power is important to me, but both are great cameras.  

  • Linus Ouellet

    I’m a big fan of your reviews. Thanks for all the hard work. I just wanted to point out that I’m pretty sure you had the 5d set to silent shooting when you did your continuous burst/buffer test. I’m guessing that camera would have filled it’s buffer much faster if it was shooting at 6fps rather than 3. Regardless of that thanks for the review, I’m Impatiently waiting for my 5d mark iii to arrive as I type this.