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[quote name='soLong' timestamp='1360281971' post='21843']

..... excuse me? .... let me make myself quite clear to those of a tad poor understanding ability who might look in here from time to time....and make things up.....



1. yes, in my very own hands, with my very own eyes, at the very same time, taking quickly the very same types of pictures with both my 7D/70-300 and my friends 800/70-300 - the autofocus on the 7D/70-300 (which has been surpassed apparently by the 5D3) eats the 800/70-300 combo, no doubt about it - and as you've brought up the comparison, my friend said in passing that he has had to replace his 70-300 lens regularly due to failure, not so me with the 70-300L



.....the "D800's autofocus not worth a penny" are your words not mine, thank you



2. i don't know, and never said i did know, about the 5D1 or the 300D, although i do know that my canon friend who i trust and who also had the 5D says that in his opinion the 5D3 is a lovely camera, also in difficult situations, and the comparison of his previous and current jpeg pictures prove it



.....i do know that in my nikon friends opinion his 800 is superior to his old 200 in dark noise, if that's helpful for you....and he does make lovely pictures with the 800 (he works from raw)



3. yes i do try to make light hearted comments, even this one, so thank you for your complement - but while doing this i do also try to make sense and be accurate with my words and not talk nonsense even in my lighter vein, so.....kool.....don't be sorry....



.....and ahem, i do believe if i can recall, that the theme of my previous post was the changing of brands which would no doubt require a new set of lenses the acquiring of which i personally have found to be a very tiresome ordeal due to apparent QC problems on the part of every manufacturer no matter how grand - well, maybe the pros are better looked after, but again i don't know this re. stills work

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You see soLong, although you stated that "...well, wouldn't like to be seen pushing one brand over another now :-) …" in your previous post, you could not escape from being a troll <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />/>...



By the way, I fully agree that switching brands (in case of having a decent set of lens at one brand) is something really worth considering in detail. So a good point regarding a discussion about switching to another brand because of DR issues. But we (including me <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />/>) could not help delving into DR issues, because it's one of the most popular topics in forums (after sensor resolution I guess).



So... @Reinier: I don't know how much of a DR difference you get between D800/D600 or 5D3, but in case I had a reasonable lens set in Canon, I would forget my DR related posts above <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />/>...



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