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I view Sony 'best to avoid' cameras in the same light as some of their other wonderful successes: Elcaset, Memory Stick, Beta, DAT, Minidisc, ATRAC, UMD..... and of course for the primary reason -...

My wonderful product failure experience with Sony products: two CD 400 disc changers, reel-to-reel tape deck, portable CD player, wife's A7 camera, portable cassette player & more....... Sony...

I've never owned a Sony product that didn't fail prematurely. I wouldn't use a Sony camera if I was given one for free. I'll take "old" technology that lasts over supposed new innovation that fails...

Thanks to everyone for your comments and contributions!

Thanks to everyone for their valuable input! Now I just need to buy a camera.................(just kidding).

I guess that a way for me to determine whether there are differences in processors is to generate lossless images from each of the highest rated ones without any enhancements and then compare. ...

It has essentially come down to why some publications (such as NPhoto) review programs and claim that those programs' RAW processors are the "best". NPhoto reviewed Capture One, ACR and others and ...

"If I edited identical Canon CR2s with both CO and LR, you wouldn't be able to tell which came from which" That's essentially what I wanted to know.

My response would be that I would want the best results, assuming that I was equally proficient in all of the software packages. Also, I would compare BMWs to Mercedes..........

OK then. Dumb question #2. What does RAW processing entail? Is it the quality of the conversion to lossless formats, or is it the ability to manipulate the raw image prior to converting it to ...

I had read that Capture One had the best RAW processor. So I was trying to find out exactly what that meant.

I understand everything you've said and I've always shot RAW + JPG. You mentioned moving RAW files from DxO, for example, into Photoshop....... I'm going to ask a silly question - can you save ...

For argument's sake, I'm going to make the assumption that Capture One is the best RAW converter and that Photoshop is the best image manipulator. So....does that mean that if Capture One did the ...

....should I look for a program with great RAW processing or one with great editing capabilities or separate ones for each task? I have used Photoshop and Lightroom and am trying to get up to speed ...

The D5300 was announced by Nikon on October 17, 2013 and shipped the same month.......three years (and a bit) ago.

That's the one I'm looking buy!

Amen!

The D40 was my first digital DSLR and I truly enjoyed using it. I have some stunning pictures from Alaska taken with the D40x that still rank amongst the best shots that I've taken. I "graduated"...