I recently acquired a T2i for cheap and after shooting with a 60D for a few months (was an upgrade from a T1i), have decided to look into selling/trading the 60D and get a 5Dc. I've seen the recent threads about the 5Dc, and would be interested going into FF. I hear lens will perform worse, lose that sweet spot, but the greater control over DoF just sounds so .... tempting.
So my current lenses are:
28mm 1.8
50mm 1.8 II
Tokina 28-70mm 2.6-2.8
15-85mm IS
55-250mm IS
BGN grade 70-200mm 2.8 non-IS
Tokina 11-16mm 2.8
Now my biggest worry is the AF on the T2i (haven't had much time to play with it yet) and the 5Dc. I don't mind using center point AF only, but I know that the 60D has diagonal cross type 2.8 on the center whereas these other two only have the vertical and horizontal cross type. The second worry is the noise from the 5Dc at higher ISOs, I love the files that come out of the 60D, even up to 6400, for smaller prints and web sizing. Finally, will my lenses suffice for FF? I'm willing to trade out my 15-85mm and switch to its FF brother 24-105mm and/or pick up the Tamron 28-75mm.
Any recommendations or advice from shooters of these cameras? I know there are many of you.
Thanks for reading.
Edit- About the AF worry, I mostly shoot static things; family, food, etc. So good servo is not needed, however I worry about my primes under low light conditions with large aperture.
Well, your EF-S lenses will have to go with a full frame camera. Your Tokina will become a 16mm prime I think, but I've heard it will still work.
Also, with the exception of vignetting, I like all of my lenses a lot more now that I'm full frame. The FL ranges on my zooms just make sense more.
Anyway, the center point on the 5D is pretty reliable. If you're content just using that then you'll be fine.
5D ISO only goes up to 3200. I usually consider 800 about as high as I like to go. But 1600 cleans up okay with some noise reduction. At web sizes one might not even notice.
I never had a lens that looked better when used on a crop camera when compared to full frame. Im not really sure how people come to that conclusion or result. It's just never been in my experience with Canon cameras and lenses.
Now my biggest worry is the AF on the T2i (haven't had much time to play with it yet) and the 5Dc. I don't mind using center point AF only, but I know that the 60D has diagonal cross type 2.8 on the center whereas these other two only have the vertical and horizontal cross type. The second worry is the noise from the 5Dc at higher ISOs, I love the files that come out of the 60D, even up to 6400, for smaller prints and web sizing. Finally, will my lenses suffice for FF? I'm willing to trade out my 15-85mm and switch to its FF brother 24-105mm and/or pick up the Tamron 28-75mm.
Any recommendations or advice from shooters of these cameras? I know there are many of you.
Thanks for reading.
Edit- About the AF worry, I mostly shoot static things; family, food, etc. So good servo is not needed, however I worry about my primes under low light conditions with large aperture. ...Show more →
if you don't shoot a lot of sports/action then the T2i /550D will be fine
Do it!! Only problem is once you start shooting the 5Dc, you will always want to keep buying FF. I bought the 5D2 in January 2012, coming from the 7D. Now I already have the 5D3....its an expensive path to get involved in. Lenses aren't always better on FF because if you look at MTF graphs all the problems or dropoff occurs only on the FF FOV. So in that way, crop cams hide some of the problems of some lenses. That said, overall lenses designed for FF are better on FF.
