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 p.98 #19 · Canon 5D Mark II master thread | |
parintele wrote:
not true.. great pictures can be produced with ANY camera more or less...at this point of technollogy noone can say is about the camera...camera's are good enough to allow you to take THE picture one way or another,,,
the issue is about how much comfort the camera is providing you, how much it helps you, how much trust it offers ....how much u need to sweat for a certain picture ...
5D AF is good...the problem is it COUL have been better in new generation and more, it would have been NORMAL to be better and better...
is not even about precision of AF, which was fine in the old 5D...
is about where those poor 9 points were spreaded...they put a 20D AF little tuned in a 5D...now they tuned a little more and put it again in a new 5D2..that is the issue...
in a APS-C frame those close to each other 9 points were fine, in a FF like 5D camera the same points become almost useless , 1, 5 or 9 is the same thing with single center point...
u need to recompose a lot, which is not best thing to do most of the times, u need to crop a lot when shooting even simple shots of a kid playing when use servo....because the subject need to ne in the center of the frame
so number of points MIGHT be acceptable compromise, their position and functionality is ZERO from many perspectives...
nobody really expected 45 points...many of us expected a more FUNCTIONAL AF system, no matter how many points it have......Show more →
I like the way the points are situated. The way I shoot, and the way others shoot, apparently, from the almost all positive comments from what other 5D owners attest to, the points are in the right place. I almost never use servo. For me, it's a waste.
Most all of what I focus on is nearer to the center, and I suspect that's true for most other 5D owners. It would have been easy for Canon to move them. They must have had a reason not to. It wouldn't have cost much to do. This camera was (is) a VERY popular model. That's the main reason why it's been in the line-up for three years. If the auto focus wasn't up to snuff, that would have been big news. But it hasn't been, because the auto focus is just fine. Now, they've improved it.
If you want the auto focus from the 1D, or 1Ds, then buy one. This camera has done very well with what it has.
the second thing is about speed...a 5D user, which is a pro or a semi-pro, so a person who knows the limits of the camera, will not expect to shoot football or birds in flight sequences like it would with a 1D camera with it's 7-8 or 10 FPS...that is not the complain , really...
is all about the mirror mechanism and its speed...
the camera is SLOW just because the mirror mechanism is slow...and is so because is cheaper to be so not only because canon wanted to differentiate the camera's specification in terms of speed...
they used a slower mechanism because is cheaper...
unfortunatelly that translates in shutter lag everytime u push the shutter, including single shot...
again, u loose lots of frames from a fraction of a second sweet smile of the bright to a kid's facial expression or a blow of the wind in the hair of your model...
these LACKS in 5D camera are related to AF and speed of the camera...they are real...
nobody expected a 1Ds at a quarter of the price in a 5D2 body, really, we are not that "high"....
just SOME steps forward in order to solve those weaknesser of otherways a great camera..
5D could have been great, it is not...4 FPS mean something, AF position of the pointsm their number mean something...mo matter how many tests you will do after u will get the camera, u can't discover in fact the points could spread or the speed can be enhanced, pure and simple...
so is abouit how a camera do not help u more than it does to produce the same pictures, good or bad ones,
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You don't have the 5D, do you? Because you write the way someone who doesn't have the camera, writes. I'm finding a lot of that here.
I do nature photography, and I know people who shoot portraits, and yes, even kids, for a living, using this camera. I haven't had, or heard any complaints about, this lag as being much of a practical problem.
Does that mean that it wouldn't be nice if it were improved. Sure. Of course.
I'm happier that the shutter life went from 100,000 shots to 150,000 shots.
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