Canon R3 vs. Nikon Z9 (Price)

canon5dsquared wrote:

The R5 default is RAW and has another setting option for Compressed Raw. Files sizes are bigger between the two cameras for a reason. The R3 doesn't do 8K. It does do 6K and 4K oversampled from 5.6K. Saying jpegs are good for sports is a joke too. Sports photographers gripe that cameras, in RAW, don't shoot enough FPS and now you're gonna tell me they'll settle for those jpegs? If only Canon had known this sooner I'm sure they could easily have hit that target with the R5. And lastly, shutter protector or not, anything mechanical has the ability to fail. Ask audio engineers if they like adding more extensions to a line of cables, I'm guessing they'll tell you the more extensions you add the higher the likelihood of failure will be.

Did you bother to watch any of the Nikon reviews showing how useful 120FPS can be in certain situations?

All we've been getting from Canon for 12 years is that the sweet spot for 'sportsshooters' is 20MP while delivering 12, 14, and 16 usable frames per second. Go look at the Getty website for the Olympics and see what supposedly real photographers are releasing in terms of size. The sizes vary from 4MP to 50MP. If they are in a position that doesn't require cropping and a 4000x3000 pixel picture will suffice (e.g. using a lense with a swinging hitter in baseball) don't you think a sports photographer might be interested in having the best frame to submit?

Because I often have no choice of where I'm positioned shooting at events, give me the highest possible VARIABLE frame rate, so I can choose peak action if the action is fast or slow, and the most pixels, so I can possibly use a shorter lens and get more usable pictures through the focal range. This isn't rocket science. Put yourself on a soccer endline or a basketball endline or a hockey photo box or a baseball photo pit in your ONE designated shooting position and optimize the usable pictures you can get from that position. How do you think you are going to do that? How do you optimize? Shoot the 70-200 or longer and hope you've got enough pixels on the subject to make a viable frame. Or if you are shooting long hope the action doesn't get too close too quickly.

You seem to be arguing that DX crop mode (8MP images!?) that Nikon has been shipping on even their latest, most advanced D6 is dumb because it is only 8MP?

"Saying jpegs are good for sports is a joke too."

You can bow out of this conversation now. I don't know a single professional who shoots on a deadline that DOESN'T shoot jpg. Have you even worked with media relations people?