Re: Why did Canon ever produce the lack-luster 5D MKII?
Taoguy wrote:
Good Stuff Ralph! You managed to coax a few more shots out of our outdated bodies. Keep on keeping on.
Gerard
Outdated stuff? 1st pic is center AF and rearranged. Second is prefocused. I shot it to get him in both directions and cropped. Usually I use the format. But that here was to fast for me. But I guess I would have done the same with any other camera body.
It is not the gear that dates out. It is us. When I was young, I shot concerts with 1600 Fuji (film) at 135mm 2.8 at a 30th handheld and had 8 of ten keepers. Today I am happy to get 2 of ten with an IS lense. But I still switch of AF tio shoot manual. That is often faster and most time more accurate. And it gives me the feeling I do the picture.
I just contacted a photographer who wants to sell his old stuff. He offers a 10D. He asked me to visit my seminar instead of paying for it. I was flashed. Never had a 10D. But I started with itīs predecessor D60 into digital SLR. I used it 3.5 years before shutter broke.
6MP! AF? Forget it (it had one but that was so slow and inaccurate that I shot 90% manual. ISO? 800 native, 1000 calculated (forget it). But those 6MP at high ( ) ISO looked like filmgrain! No shitty banding like in todays 15, 18, 24 MP.
The follow up 10D used the same sensor, but went up to ISO 1600. The AF was enhanced and it was/is no plastic body, but alloy (?). 3 frames per second! 7 AF points. Just 7000 actuations. I hope I get it and it will be a great feeling going out and shoot with it. 6MP is a lot of pixels, but they force you back to think about your shot.
Feb 09, 2012 at 04:23 PM
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) ISO looked like filmgrain! No shitty banding like in todays 15, 18, 24 MP.