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Scott Stoness wrote:
Its a great camera. I have had one for several years.If you are a landscape orientated photographer with canon lens you should have one. It allows printing 30% bigger, with similar quality to printing smaller on 5div.
The downsides are:
1) Bigger files take much longer to process
2) Histogram has large pause on burst to make it difficult on animal photography
3) 1 less stop of dynamic range at iso100 but this is not significant to me because I woudl bracket and blend even if I was using a Nikon 850 or Sony A7rIII
4) There likely is a R highmpx coming that will permit nd's with TS17 to flatten water
5) Not fast, if you are you a bif person, you will have to have more skill
The upsides:
1) Canon menu
2) 30% bigger printing than r or 5DIV
3) Uses TS17 natively -and if you are not shooting TS you are living with mushed corners
4) 5dsr cropped is better than 7dii uncropped at same distance
5) just works
6) way better in the deep cold than mirrorless for battery life and no flippy screen to fail in the cold...Show more →
That seems like a pretty fair summary to me. :-)
Basically, I agree, though with a few slight variations...
- I do a lot of wildlife photography with mine — mostly migratory birds — and I hadn't really paid any attention to the histogram issue you mention.
- The DR is smaller than some alternatives... but I haven't had to bracket since I've had the 5DsR, even with some subjects with pretty wide dynamic range. So far I have always been able to recover a print-worthy file from a single raw. (In truth, perhaps out of habit, I still shoot brackets in such cases — I just don't end up using them.)
- True about the "more skill" part of BIF shooting, along with perhaps being the sort of tends to not burst most of the time. (When shooting BIF I leave the camera in burst mode... but 9/10 times I use a quick shutter press that captures only a single image.)
- I think a lot of 5DsR users would agree with your upside #5 — from the get-go the camera just worked in a straightforward and reliable way.
- Battery life really is better with DSLRs. However, if you are a landscape photographer who relies heavily on live view mode (as I do) you'll likely find that the battery life is about the same as that on mirrorless.
Bottom line: While the 5DsR isn't the ideal camera for everyone, it is a good, solid camera that produces excellent IQ for folks who need higher image resolution.
Dan
(Who confesses that he is spending too much time on FM today. I'm in the middle of the non-fun parts of preparing work for a couple of shows... and any distraction is attractive! ;-) )
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