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Sirfishalot
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p.1 #1 · Wildlife with 5D MkII?

This has been discussed in the Canon gear forum I'm sure, but did anyone here get to see the images posted by Romy Ochon using the pre-production 5D MkII?

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1032&message=30056483

Sure the AFand frame rate are significantly slower than the 1D series, but OMG the image quality and cropablity looks pretty promising. If you scroll further down the thread he posted another heavily cropped image form the 21Mp MkII file.
Maybe time to start saving a bunch of pennies.

JayT

Nov 19, 2008 at 08:59 PM

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p.1 #2 · Wildlife with 5D MkII?

I'm far from the most discerning photographer in this forum, but even his touched-up version that's in the original post seems soft to me. That's probably a combination of the TC, f/18, and the high ISO.

Nov 19, 2008 at 09:05 PM

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p.1 #3 · Wildlife with 5D MkII?

Ninjamobile wrote:
I'm far from the most discerning photographer in this forum, but even his touched-up version that's in the original post seems soft to me. That's probably a combination of the TC, f/18, and the high ISO.

Yeah, just a tad soft. He shot with the Sigomonster at 800mm with a 2X !!

JayT

Nov 19, 2008 at 09:12 PM

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p.1 #4 · Wildlife with 5D MkII?

Seems like a capable camera body. Just put the appropriate lens on and aim it at some wildlife. Walla!

It's the photographer, not the camera.

Nov 19, 2008 at 10:21 PM

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p.1 #5 · Wildlife with 5D MkII?

I got some very nice shots from my XTi, and the 5D mk2 shoots faster then that. For an image shot at ISO 3200 that is awesome!!!

Nov 19, 2008 at 11:44 PM

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p.1 #6 · Wildlife with 5D MkII?

holy smokes. those 3 sample images just blows me away. i'm going to have to email santa an updated xmas list! i'm curious as to the autofocus ability. i'm currently using a canon 20D so it's gotta be better than that.

- hung

Nov 20, 2008 at 12:17 AM


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