Well, you should care.
Fundamentally, Canon use a smearing technique to give a pasty digital look to its files from the camera. This gives soft and detail lacking files which is a subject of many discussions.
Nikon yield more gritty results with the emphasis on sharpness, tonality, colour fidelity and graduation. You can choose the program you want to use to smoothen out the noise and how much detail you are willing to lose to achieve the same look as the Canon. Canon owners don’t have the luxury of adding back the details the camera robbed them of.
This is fundamental to the design philosophies from each manufacturer. It is also the most important element in how much one values the files from the camera, P+S shooters will be drawn more to the Canon whilst the digital darkroom professional will favour the Nikon ~ it’s all about control, Nikon will give you a better file to work on, but you better know what to do with it.
Otherwise the D300 is a full professional camera partner and is not a comparable model to the 40D, the Nikon D80 is a better comparison in reality.
But get hold of a few raw files at high ISO from each camera and see what you can do with them. If you can’t make a better file from the Nikon, then buy the Canon.
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Originally Posted by Loa
Hello, P.S. I don't care about Canon and Nikon: I just want to know if the D300 can catch up to the 40D in the high ISO department.
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