Canon 50D is a pro camera?

[EdelineM]

I just wondering why Canon 50D is count as a pro camera?
Is it really a good one? Is this camera better than Nikon D300S?

[CaptainNH]

As a Canon advocate through and through, I'd have to answer, it's not really, yes and no.

I have a 50D as a backup body; it's a great camera, with good low light performance and fast(ish) AF, but a comparison between the 50D and the D300s isn't really a fair fight.

Even as a Canon user, I'd have to admit that the D300s is better than the 50D (but it is much more expensive).

A fairer comparison would be between the D300s and the 7D, closer in features and price, but I'd have to put my unbiased vote in the Canon corner for that one.

[GadgetRick]

Better? Well, it all depends on what you want out of the camera. I can say you can't get anything from Nikon which compares to the 50D when you figure in price and what the camera does. The D300S does more than a 50D but it costs a WHOLE lot more and I don't believe you get that much more from the D300S to warrant the difference in price.

As far as whether it's a pro body or not. Well, Canon considers it more of a semi-pro body but I'm using it for shoots and I know lots of other people do as well. I do, however, plan to get something else (i.e. upgrade) later this year and to keep the 50D as a backup body. I think you see the 50D used as a backup body for pros quite often.

The 50D is a quite capable body.

[EdelineM]

ohh thank you for the explanations.. yeah Nikon is more more expensive than Canon for sure..

[EdelineM]

btw, is canon 50D most common to be used on nature photos?

[inkista]

Define "nature" photos: wildlife, landscape, flower macros? For most of these, you can use any camera body you want and still get good results--it depends more heavily on your lenses.

But for serious landscape photographers, full-frame is considered more of a tool of choice. For wildlife photographers, crop bodies tend to be used more for the pseudo "reach" the crop factor gives.