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

Andreascy wrote:

thank you:) my tamron also looks good . and i am thinking if its worth to pay double the money to get the 17-55 if the tamron looks great. the follwing image i just add 1 stop exposure and some sharpening. also is loosing some contrast when upload to dpreview.

by the way something else. is not better if i decide to keep the nikon d700 to buy a nikon for fx that will work to the fuji too? i think is better idea

The Tamron 17-50 non-VC is almost as good a DX lens as you are going to get, you don't need to worry about exchanging it with a 17-55 Nikkor. A sideways step.

Though the s5 has real strong points, I don't see it fitting in your setup for your purposes. Your setup in fact looks like it grew ad-hoc.

You've got 5 lenses and 1 body? The lowest body in the range, too. If you want to make money from photography, that is not a reliable way. You need a second body- a true backup, not one that does something completely different.

I don't know why you chose Olympus, but if you want to make money from portrait photography, you are handicapped by the big depth of field with Olympus which will not differentiate your photos as much as possible from all the people that already have bridge cameras. It's a simple step to put a bit of distance between you and what anybody else could do on a lucky day with a bridge or compact camera.

If you want photos with novel and dreamy defocused backgrounds that bridge cameras find hard to do, you need full frame, the D700. The s5 is only 1/3 of the way there from your Olympus. Added to that, the high iso on the s5 is a stinker. I would try to avoid iso 800 on it if I could and just forget about more than that.

I used the s5 like fPrime says- summer walkabouts, you don't need to adjust exposure compensation downwards, you let the highlight processing take care of overexposure. It's not for photographing people indoors, unless they will pose for you and you have VR or flash. It's not in truth a versatile camera by today's standards. Things that few people want go cheap.

If you want to get serious about portrait photography then you don't need the very sharpest lenses but you could do with a larger sensor for less contrasty, smoother tonal transitions than smaller sensors have.