How Come Nikon Beats Canon So Badly?

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How Come Nikon Beats Canon So Badly?

I got a press release yesterday from DxOMark that says the new Nikon D800 is “now the best camera ever tested by DxOMark in terms of image quality.” “Incredibly,” the press release goes on to say, “the Nikon D800 even…

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Of the top ten cameras in overall score on DxOMark, four are Nikons (and two are Pentaxes). But Canon doesn’t have a single camera in the top 10. Canon’s highest placed camera comes in at #13. In the top 20, Nikon has eight cameras; Canon, just two. (Sony has five.) Nikon’s little entry-level DSLR, the D5100, comes in just above the vaunted (but outgoing) Canon 5D Mark II (evidently the Mark III hasn’t been tested yet).

As a side note, my most-used camera limps in at #124. (Breaks into patriotic song.)

Makes me wonder, though, why Nikon beats Canon so badly in DxOMark scores.

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