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Placed side by side the photos are equally good.
But it's probably difficult if you have a specialist photography requirement and the lenses or camera features you need are not in your system. At least three of our own forum members, to my certain knowledge, were caught in this difficult position. Persevering with inappropriate equipment will never solve the problem.
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You are totally right about true specialist applications needing certain equipment. But even there, the lack of specialty gear in either the nikon or canon lineup is usually very very temporary...my point was that it has been a game of leapfrog for decades. For most people the System is much more important than the specialty feature.
Your story of your friends nikon portrait of you reminds me of the days when I got my first Porsche (a used 911T) and I went to the annual Porsche club rental of a local raceway for two days of great driving. There was one guy who had an older less powerful model than even mine who just couldn't stop griping that he was so slow because he had such a crummy car. One of the senior members of the club with a brand new top of the line 911 called his bluff and said we would trade cars and bet him $100 he would beat him in 2 laps around the track in the slower car...guess who won handily and who shut up for the rest of the weekend
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