Fuji S5 Vs D700 ( people have both cameras welcome to share comments)

fPrime wrote:

I have both an S5 Pro and a D700, both of which I'll never sell because I enjoy the color I get out of them. To this day I still prefer the colors of the S5 Pro over any of Fuji's mirrorless bodies.

The S5 is my default camera for shooting at high noon in bright sunlight when I want rich CCD colors without highlight clipping. There are other CCD cameras that have an equally appealing color richness (like the D200, D40, and D60), but they have limited dynamic range.

Where the S5 has limitations for me is mainly in high-ISO, natural-light photography. That's where the CMOS-based D700 leaps ahead in in it's ability to focus and shoot action up to a very useable ISO 6400. Lastly, the D700 also has higher resolution than the S5 Pro (which must interpolate to reach 12MP output) and can produce shallower DOF by virtue of its full frame sensor.

Are the D700's colors as good as the S5 Pro? Certainly not in SOOC JPEG. They are closer in RAW with good processing. My recommendation is learn to use both cameras within their respective sweet spots before you decide to let go of either. You may well find you prefer to keep all of them.

fPrime

Hello. Thank you for answering in this thread. The fuji s5 can be used with the tamron 17-50 and with the nikon 50mm f1.8. Now the nikon d700 comes with the 24-120 f3.5 5.6 vr that as I read from many reviewers is a "bad" lens or at least no as good. I also have the 28-200 af-d ( that came with the fuji the fuji s5) but I don't know if its working on full frame( I guess is working) and in fuji this lens is soft. I want to test it in d700 to check the quality.anothwe interesting option is to by one doing all lens for nikon that is missing from other systems. This lens maybe is the 24-120 f4 that is not very expensive and is good. But I would like also to have a beautiful bokeh in portraits with this lens and I am not sure about this