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Canon R3 vs. Nikon Z9 (Price)

Started Oct 28, 2021 | Discussions thread
Z6User
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Re: Canon R3 vs. Nikon Z9 (Price)

Colin46 wrote:

Tambopata wrote:

Wildkits wrote:

RedFox88 wrote:

z9 is a slightly better R5 for $1600 more.

I'm a proud owner of an R5 and I don't believe that assertion for a second. The z9 is better than the R5 in almost every way.

The Z9 is no doubt the better camera than R5 , but by how much depends on your main use of the camera.

They both do 20fps@45, but don't forget that the speed of Z9 is built around lossy raw.

Nope.

If you shoot in losless raw with Z9 early reports indicate that the buffer is awfully small at around 40.

Due to a mediocre card.

Lossy raw/12bit raw will in most situations be as good as 14bit and it's not a big deal for situations that need 20fps.

Nikon probably has put much work down in the new lossy raw formats, and I'm curious to see if there's much difference between lossless and lossy raw.

I don’t shoot lossless or lossy raw on any camera, the z9 hasn’t got a totally uncompressed raw mode. There is no free lunch.

It can shoot compressed lossless raw at 20 FPS. Nikon say it can capture 1,000 consecutive frames, and one source claimed that Nikon achieved 5,000 consecutive frames during in house testing. I can’t see any point to uncompressed raw.

There are also two different lossy compressed raw formats if you need smaller files.

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