Ralph Conway
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adrianb wrote:
Ralph I think you are obsessed with IQ and you're missing the whole point...
Maybe. Sorry. But what else? Everything else I can controll. Worse IQ not.
There is a need of certain features to get that IQ which you are craving for..
Let me know.
Fast & accurate AF is certainly an essential one.
The cener point is fast and accurate.
If you want IQ, go get a MF with a digital back and do weddings with that...ok?
No. Can you explain? Using 35mm does not mean worse IQ since I bought my first DSLR (D60 in 2002 at 6 MP).
So to you the fact of the matter that 5D can't focus jack sh*t with outer points is irellevant as wedding photographer, right?
Yes. Using the outer points and switching to one is contra productive to catching the right moment. I like to use a lens wide open. For that always the photographer has to decide. No camera can, no matter how accurate wich points are. The cam is not able to know where I want to have the focus. So choose it and do the picture is a thing of a 4rth second. Never ever I met somebody, who was able to chosse and select one outer FP within. Maybe you are different. Congratulations.
To you,all that matters is if you allign the bride and groom in a garden and make 'em stay still, you can get nice sharp and crisp photos of them with your 24-70 or whatever, right?
No. If I would shoot that way, I would have all time to choose any outer point.
If they start running and you switch to AI servo, your scenario is up in flames.....right?
No. If they start running I do not have the time to switch to Al-Servo. And at 4FPS there is no need for it. I would just shoot frame by frame.
I don't know whether to laugh or feel sorry for you ......the way you dismiss those features which set apart a 1D series from a 5D series...
Try to laugh - that is always good for you. Beeing sorry would not help me anyway. Neither you.
a) AF (faster, accurate)
Yes, I saw. That is great. But with loosing IQ ... no way. I am not only shooting running brides, but in main time portraits. Did you ever tried to switch to manual focus?
b) dual card slot (life saver in some situations, in case your CF card goes wild on you)
Never had any trouble with any CF card. The second slot is great to hand out a copy of your shots to a customer (would be a great help for me at the moment.
c) weather sealing (lets you shoot in situations which deem the 5D unusable)
Its a fear fantasy. I never stoped shooting in rain or snowing and never had any issues. %D II is well working in rain. I let my D60 out in the rain for 10 hours at a grill party. The lens was full of water. I just put out the akkus, dried it for 6 hours and restarted it. It worked without any problems for another 1.5 years. Then the shutter broke. After 130.000 releases (promised where 60k). I would have the same fear, using a seald body. There is still no guarantee on it.
etc...
Now you need to tell me that all of these DO NOT count for you,as a photographer, in getting that nice image that you keep talking about (iq..iq...iq...iq..)
I do not need to tell you anything, adrianb. But if you like to hear/read: Yes. All that does not count to me to make my nice images. But IQ does, right.
I wonder how the D3 owners looking at your statement as you call their body a 'non pro body' (btw, it's not MY D3. I never owned a Nikon, I have a 5D II).
Is it important, what D3 owners think about my statement? Are my statements important to anybody except me. To you? I owned 2 Nikons (film) they where as nice as all of my other film cameras (Cosina, Minolta, Olympus, Canon). If you have a 5D MK II, why you do not use it instead of whining, how bad it is. Or sell it and buy something else?
Try outresolving a D3 and a 1Ds3 in crappy light or on fast moving subjects...actually I don't even know why I'm trying to reason with you since you don't seem to grasp the basics.. the differences between a 1Ds III and a 5D II
In crappy light? there is a section on my webside showing concerts. 90% was shot manual. Nikonians asked me: How did you get those images. My answer: "Switch of AF. For that there is a switch." For you: IF AF does not work focus manual. that is one of two causes, why using a (D)SLR. Else you can do the pic with your cell phone, too.
Also, try to keep the names right (confusing the nikon D3x with a 3Dx would cause misunderstanding...)...it's the least you can do for the Nikon owners..after saying their D3 was never a pro body)
This goes for the Nikon D3s as well.
You did not understand what I as talking about? Sorry. Maybe I had a couple of beer to much. And I am an old man. My brain is not working as good as in younger times.
You are making so much nonsense that you are not even a TRUE canon fanboy.
The nonsense I did was to answer to your post. But that was my decission. Take your gear and shoot. Its great and (like any gear) never better then the person behind.
Edited on Feb 08, 2012 at 06:22 PM · View previous versions
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