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CANON 5D CLASSIC IN 2024 ?!

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p.1 #1 · p.1 #1 · CANON 5D CLASSIC IN 2024 ?!

Heck yeah !

https://youtu.be/JI5tSLF2hKg

Mar 26, 2024 at 02:31 PM

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p.1 #2 · p.1 #2 · CANON 5D CLASSIC IN 2024 ?!

Don’t use all capitals, 5D will suffice without ‘classic’, and most cameras of that age are capable of taking photos equal to those.

Mar 26, 2024 at 03:57 PM

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p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · CANON 5D CLASSIC IN 2024 ?!

I still have and occasionally use my (bought new in 2005) 5D. It is still one of my all-time favorites, but these images, I'm sorry, these are nothing more than over exposed snapshots. I don't see anything that someone could not do with an iPhone.

Mar 26, 2024 at 08:03 PM

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p.1 #4 · p.1 #4 · CANON 5D CLASSIC IN 2024 ?!

gwaww wrote:
I don't see anything that someone could not do with an iPhone.

Or the Canon 1D that came out four years before the 5D:

Canon EOS-1D

Mar 26, 2024 at 11:23 PM

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p.1 #5 · p.1 #5 · CANON 5D CLASSIC IN 2024 ?!

Ah, yes. Nothing beats those old school color profiles for Canon. Some of the look might be the sensor/CFA but whatever it is the really old models did have a certain rendition that was easy to work with from a color perspective (according to my personal taste). Compared to modern sensors - which are technical marvels but not as "pretty" - these images look almost filmic with their warm bias.

Nothing "magic" though as some like to say about the 5D. Never understood that part.

Mar 27, 2024 at 03:54 AM

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p.1 #6 · p.1 #6 · CANON 5D CLASSIC IN 2024 ?!

The 5d classic was my first digital canon
I used it for sons football paired with the EF 100-300usm

The mirror fell out and canon kindly repaired it. But it shook me up and I never used it much afterwards. I bought the 7d whilst it was being repaired.
Later sold the 5d.
I bought another last year, boxed one owner but I also have a 6d too. Hence the 5d hasn’t been used once except to test it worked properly.
I might have a bash this weekend

Mar 27, 2024 at 04:32 AM

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p.1 #7 · p.1 #7 · CANON 5D CLASSIC IN 2024 ?!

gwaww wrote:
I still have and occasionally use my (bought new in 2005) 5D. It is still one of my all-time favorites, but these images, I'm sorry, these are nothing more than over exposed snapshots. I don't see anything that someone could not do with an iPhone.

I think we need to do a comparison test! Fixed aperture phone cameras (at least my Andriod flagships) have horrible noise and resolution once you look at images enlarged a little. That said, I am happy to be surprised.

The 5D put out fantastic images in its day, and still would today. Problem is comparing it to latest generation high end cameras on a large print or 4k monitor. For average size prints, I think it would still hold up fine except to camera maniacs in this forum (myself included).

Mar 27, 2024 at 07:53 AM

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Mar 27, 2024 at 08:10 AM

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p.1 #9 · p.1 #9 · CANON 5D CLASSIC IN 2024 ?!

I loved my 5D, which was the first digital camera that produced what I considered "real" images. (And by "real" I mean that they looked like film images when processed in a certain way.) I now regret selling mine, though at the time my I had to sell it to help offset the cost of the 5D II.

I've thought about buying another one for nostalgia's sake but it's hard to determine on a used listing whether you're getting one of the earlier or later models. The later models had a better rear display and were less likely to have the mirror loosen up and fall off.

As for the video linked above, the images within don't look particularly like my old 5D images. That could be due to post-processing, but the images look overexposed as well.

Mar 27, 2024 at 08:35 AM

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p.1 #10 · p.1 #10 · CANON 5D CLASSIC IN 2024 ?!

moondigger wrote:
I loved my 5D, which was the first digital camera that produced what I considered "real" images. (And by "real" I mean that they looked like film images when processed in a certain way.) I now regret selling mine, though at the time my I had to sell it to help offset the cost of the 5D II.

I've thought about buying another one for nostalgia's sake but it's hard to determine on a used listing whether you're getting one of the earlier or later models. The later models had a better rear display and were less likely to have the...Show more →

Did the later ones have better rear display? In what way? Same lowres though?

Mar 27, 2024 at 09:38 AM

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p.1 #11 · p.1 #11 · CANON 5D CLASSIC IN 2024 ?!

boldcolors wrote:
Did the later ones have better rear display? In what way? Same lowres though?

I don't recall the details -- I only noticed it when I was talking with another photographer in Yosemite National Park, and he showed me some of his shots from that day on the rear display. His was dimmer for sure, even with the brightness set high. I don't recall if his was lower res or not. But I looked into it after that, and apparently Canon silently upgraded the rear display on 5D models produced after a certain date.

Mar 27, 2024 at 09:50 AM

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p.1 #12 · p.1 #12 · CANON 5D CLASSIC IN 2024 ?!

Nostalgia, I owned 2 of these and have gone back several times to look at the old files after reading all the new hype. I cannot see anything special, could be like the Leica glow, some see it most say it does not exist.

Now the 1D... that's the body that convinced me to move to digital

Mar 27, 2024 at 11:38 AM

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p.1 #13 · p.1 #13 · CANON 5D CLASSIC IN 2024 ?!

thedruid wrote:
Nostalgia, I owned 2 of these and have gone back several times to look at the old files after reading all the new hype. I cannot see anything special, could be like the Leica glow, some see it most say it does not exist.

When I first gushed about it here -- how great the 5D files looked vs my 20D files, and how I finally felt like I had a digital camera that could replace my film cameras -- I remember getting some amused and/or annoyed pushback from others.

I couldn't adequately explain it, but there's no doubt the 5D files were just superior to my eye even viewed at lower resolutions. This wasn't a case of me buying into hype I had seen elsewhere, because I hadn't seen any hype elsewhere about it at that time. Or, let me clarify: others seemed very impressed by the 12.7 megapixel resolution, but I didn't see anybody raving about the overall rendition or the hard-to-define qualities that struck me as far superior to images from other cameras.

To this day I can still pick out the 5D shots from a mixed stack of random 4x6 prints -- some sourced from a 20D, some from a PowerShot G3, some from the 5D. Printed at 4x6 by a drug store lab, the differing resolutions of the camera sensors isn't even detectable. But the 5D shots just all look better.

I won't go as far as some others, who claim the original 5D files are far better than those from later models. They do have a characteristic look that I find appealing, but at no point did I want to get rid of my 5D II, III, or IV to go back to the 5D. (Though I'm sure I would still use it occasionally if I still had it.)

Mar 27, 2024 at 12:11 PM

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p.1 #14 · p.1 #14 · CANON 5D CLASSIC IN 2024 ?!

TOPSHELFJUNIOR wrote:
Heck yeah !

https://youtu.be/JI5tSLF2hKg

I think it would be useful when posting YouTube links to at least include a sentence or two about what is at the link and its relevance. YMMV.

As to the 5D, I owned one back when it was new. Back then it was a great camera, and I loved mine — despite issues that would (will?) disappoint those who have used more recent cameras: Problematic noise at ISOs above the base, very serious sensor dust issues, no live view, no video (if you care about video on your still camera), slow AF, laggardly burst rates, and the relatively low sensor resolution.

Was it a great camera? Yes, when it was introduced it was remarkable: The first “affordable” full frame camera, and it changed the camera market going forward.

However, today? Well, it is true that it is as good of a camera as it was when it was released almost 19 years ago. It is also true that photographers made many great photographs with it. But we could say essentially the same about the computers, cars, televisions, and other products of that era, too. Does a a 2005 car work as well today as it did in 2005, assuming that it has been maintained. Yes, it does. Is it as good as the best of today’s cars? Not remotely.

This often wraps back around to the notion that the original Canon 5D possesses some “magic” that isn’t found in later iterations of the series or in other Canon (or non-Canon) cameras.

I don’t buy it. I used the 5D extensively, followed by the 5DII and then 5DsR. I’ve also used (and currently use) cameras from other manufacturers. There’s nothing “magical” about the 5D, and there’s nothing that I could do with it that I cannot do as well or better with other newer cameras.

If you have a 5D and you like it, enjoy it and continue to use it. Why not?

But if you are among those hoping that it will bring some “magic” to your photography and elevate it above what you could do with other cameras, I have bad news for you… ;-)

Mar 27, 2024 at 01:52 PM

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p.1 #15 · p.1 #15 · CANON 5D CLASSIC IN 2024 ?!

Pretty sure this post is here on FM just for link- and/or click-farming.

Carry on.

Mar 27, 2024 at 02:03 PM

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p.1 #16 · p.1 #16 · CANON 5D CLASSIC IN 2024 ?!

Would the 5D be worth converting to monochrome?

Mar 27, 2024 at 02:07 PM

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p.1 #17 · p.1 #17 · CANON 5D CLASSIC IN 2024 ?!

Jeff wrote:
Pretty sure this post is here on FM just for link- and/or click-farming.

Carry on.

I thought the same thing. But the discussion it launched has been kind of interesting anyway.

Mar 27, 2024 at 02:21 PM

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p.1 #18 · p.1 #18 · CANON 5D CLASSIC IN 2024 ?!

moondigger wrote:
I thought the same thing. But the discussion it launched has been kind of interesting anyway.

Well it was the OP's second post and he seems to have disappeared. Which one of you scared him away

There is the same old discussion about the 5D every few years. You can start discussions about any older cameras, be they film or digital.

Maybe I should start one on the 1D.

Mar 27, 2024 at 03:03 PM

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p.1 #19 · p.1 #19 · CANON 5D CLASSIC IN 2024 ?!

This isn't the first time I've seen 'classic' attached to the original 5D. When did this happen?

Mar 27, 2024 at 05:47 PM

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p.1 #20 · p.1 #20 · CANON 5D CLASSIC IN 2024 ?!

"Its the "5D classic" now", https://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/733844/0?keyword=classic#6654520

Mar 27, 2024 at 06:01 PM

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