p.2 #2 · Goodbye 5d mk III, I loved you, but it's time to move on(810)
Thank God my wife doesn't feel the need to post every time she changes brands with her obsession (purses). I don't think I could stand reading "Ode to Burberry" or "I'll miss you Coach".
p.2 #3 · Goodbye 5d mk III, I loved you, but it's time to move on(810)
RCicala wrote:
Thank God my wife doesn't feel the need to post every time she changes brands with her obsession (purses). I don't think I could stand reading "Ode to Burberry" or "I'll miss you Coach".
p.2 #4 · Goodbye 5d mk III, I loved you, but it's time to move on(810)
RCicala wrote:
Thank God my wife doesn't feel the need to post every time she changes brands with her obsession (purses). I don't think I could stand reading "Ode to Burberry" or "I'll miss you Coach".
That is because your wife is smarter than that. We know the purses are just "things" and we don't need the attention.
p.2 #7 · Goodbye 5d mk III, I loved you, but it's time to move on(810)
Wow. I didn't think this would be a big deal. Thanks for the feedback. All of it. It is just equipment and it is more about skills. But this was just meant in good fun. These boards can be a little dry and thought I would try to bring a little levity. I am sorry for any one I offended and maybe I was wrong for posting everywhere. I will accept that. These forums are a great source of information
p.2 #9 · Goodbye 5d mk III, I loved you, but it's time to move on(810)
Jglaser757 wrote:
Wow. I didn't think this would be a big deal. Thanks for the feedback. All of it. It is just equipment and it is more about skills. But this was just meant in good fun. These boards can be a little dry and thought I would try to bring a little levity. I am sorry for any one I offended and maybe I was wrong for posting everywhere. I will accept that. These forums are a great source of information
It might just be where you posted your "in good fun" bit.
I'll bet that some of the folks (but not all) in (your new) Nikon forum would get a kick out of this. But in a Canon forum, whether or not it was intended that way, it reads like a troll post.
And, the "love for my camera" and all of the associated stuff, while no doubt meant to be somewhat ironically humorous, unfortunately sounds a bit too close to some real posts by folks who are (perhaps unfortunately) serious.
p.2 #10 · Goodbye 5d mk III, I loved you, but it's time to move on(810)
Jglaser757 wrote:
Wow. I didn't think this would be a big deal. Thanks for the feedback. All of it. It is just equipment and it is more about skills. But this was just meant in good fun. These boards can be a little dry and thought I would try to bring a little levity. I am sorry for any one I offended and maybe I was wrong for posting everywhere. I will accept that. These forums are a great source of information
p.2 #11 · Goodbye 5d mk III, I loved you, but it's time to move on(810)
My 5D3 is deeply offended. The camera mentioned something about "36MP's out of focus will make a great large print". I think that's what I heard. I think it was sarcasm.
p.2 #12 · Goodbye 5d mk III, I loved you, but it's time to move on(810)
ggreene wrote:
Wasn't the D800/D800E out before the 5D3? Who the hell buys a 5D3 that prioritizes resolution, DR, and the ability to print above 32x48?
I would say you made the wrong purchase from the very beginning. You should have ditched Canon back then and you would have had 2 years worth of higher resolution, higher DR photos with larger, better prints to show for it.
Why? One reason why the OP first decided to go with the 5D MkIII might have been due to an existing investment in Canon lens gear. If you could use Canon lenses on a Nikon D800/D800E/D810 camera, the big majority of landscape photographers would have ditched their Canon cameras in a blink of an eye when the 5D MkII was released and the D800 cameras were out. You need either to ditch existing Canion lenses and get Nikon lens gear instead (or add it) or (what I did) go the Sony A7R route.
I don't see anything wrong what the OP expressed above. Camera plus gears are just tools, and if we find something which suits better there is nothing wrong to make a change. IMO Canon lenses are great, but I wouldn't bet on current Canon DSLRs either.
The usual Canon fanboys of course try to make the OP non-credible here.
p.2 #13 · Goodbye 5d mk III, I loved you, but it's time to move on(810)
retrofocus wrote:
Why? One reason why the OP first decided to go with the 5D MkIII might have been due to an existing investment in Canon lens gear. If you could use Canon lenses on a Nikon D800/D800E/D810 camera, the big majority of landscape photographers would have ditched their Canon cameras in a blink of an eye when the 5D MkII was released and the D800 cameras were out. You need either to ditch existing Canion lenses and get Nikon lens gear instead (or add it) or (what I did) go the Sony A7R route.
They have already dumped the lenses to Ebay so they did not have a lot of attachment to them. If your priority is high resolution, DR, and large printing you go to the gear that gets you that. Why suffer with a sub standard solution?
Better gear will always be available. 2 years of lost time shooting with gear that is not giving you the quality that you want is gone forever.
p.2 #15 · Goodbye 5d mk III, I loved you, but it's time to move on(810)
It's perfectly OK to switch, I am just intrigued to find someone who really routinely prints that large (>32x48). I guess there are such people, but they are rarer than hen's teeth. Cluck cluck.
p.2 #18 · Goodbye 5d mk III, I loved you, but it's time to move on(810)
Im showing stuff in a gallery in Miami, and every thing is big,,they want even bigger! And I have lost two sales thru an online gallery because one of my images cant print larger than 20x30. I tried reprocessing the image, took to someone else to try and its limited. and Thats life,,I moved on!!
p.2 #20 · Goodbye 5d mk III, I loved you, but it's time to move on(810)
I think the used equipment market gives an unbiased opinion of competing cameras.
When I viewed the specs of D800 and 5DIII 28 months ago, and saw that 5DIII was priced $500 higher, I thought that that was insane. I said to myself that within a year or so, a used 5DIII would be priced $500 lower than D800.
That didn't happen. A 5DIII is still priced substantially higher today. But what does the market know?
Archive 2014 · Goodbye 5d mk III, I loved you, but it's time to move on(810)
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