Can you tell just by the look of a photo whether it was taken with a Nikon or Canon?
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There might be some minor differences but I doubt 99% of the people could spot them.
It is what it is.
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He might be able to spot the difference in his own work, but I doubt he could tell the difference as accurately if the photos were from other photographers. Even in his own work the differences would be extremely subtle and mostly about processing.
My walls at home are hung with photos I've taken over the last 20 years. They range from 8x12 to 20x30 in BW and color. They are all either silver gelatin prints or C-prints. Many of the digital BW prints are C-prints. They were shot with a wide variety of film and digital cameras. I ask these sort of questions of photographers all the time:
Which were shot with a Leica?
Which were shot with Zeiss lenses?
Which are film and which are digital?
Which have the Tri-X look?
Which are APS-C DSLR and which are 35mm DSLR?
Which are BW C-prints (black made with dye) and which are silver gelatin prints (black made with silver)?
And so on. The answers are all over the place. No one has ever successfully picked the Leica shots. They can't spot the Tri-X look. They can't tell the difference between shots from my old 20D and my new 5DII. They don't seem to be able to spot Zeiss lenses. They can't tell which are BW C-prints on RC paper and which are silver gelatin on FB baryta paper. They even have a hard time sorting film from digital.
DestinDave wrote: I've read comparison reviews where a Canon and a Nikon were being tested and compared.. In the articles, there were always images showing the differences in color, temp, tone, clarity, etc....
In all of these, the photos were shot from the same spot with exactly the same camera settings, and shown without any post-processing... in that case, he might be able to distinguish but, otherwise, no way in hell to tell...
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Sybleann wrote: which would be the best, Nikon or Canon?
If there were a "best" he wouldn't need to carry both cameras.
Henry Peach wrote:
Sybleann wrote: which would be the best, Nikon or Canon?
If there were a "best" he wouldn't need to carry both cameras.
So true, the "best" is so opinion based
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