dhphoto wrote:
...a baby 1D, that will take the cheapo crap EF-S zooms?
I have 3 EF-S lenses (10-22, 17-55, 60) and their IQ easily rival (and sometimes surpass) L lenses. If you refer to the rumored 15-85 and 18-135 then it's best to wait for actual tests, no? I recall trying a friend's 18-55 IS a month ago while taking similar shots with my 17-55 IS. The differences in IQ were seen only 100% scrutiny and even then, they were minor.
Yakim Peled wrote:
I have 3 EF-S lenses (10-22, 17-55, 60) and their IQ easily rival (and sometimes surpass) L lenses. If you refer to the rumored 15-85 and 18-135 then it's best to wait for actual tests, no? I recall trying a friend's 18-55 IS a month ago while taking similar shots with my 17-55 IS. The differences in IQ were seen only 100% scrutiny and even then, they were minor.
Happy shooting,
Yakim.
Good that you like them. I have never seen or used an EF-S lens that wasn't very averagely built and vastly over priced, even if it did have good optics.
IMHO the EF-S range is one that Canon doesn't care that much about, certainly not at the higher end. If anyone can quite justify why a 17-55IS costs as much as it does - with the build quality that it has I'd be interested, considering a 24-105L and 24-70L aren't far off the same price, for an entirely different quality of lens.
dhphoto wrote:
Good that you like them. I have never seen or used an EF-S lens that wasn't very averagely built and vastly over priced, even if it did have good optics.
IMHO the EF-S range is one that Canon doesn't care that much about, certainly not at the higher end. If anyone can quite justify why a 17-55IS costs as much as it does - with the build quality that it has I'd be interested, considering a 24-105L and 24-70L aren't far off the same price, for an entirely different quality of lens.
Just to add a bit more info, I replaced the 17-40/4 L for the 10-22, the 24-105/4 L for the 17-55 and the 100/2.8 for the 60/2.8. IQ is every bit as good or (in the former case) a tad better. Also, after owning the 17-55 alongside the 35/1.4 L and Sigma 50/1.4 for several months I eventually sold the primes as they became redundant. It's O.K., I have 5 more.
Happy shooting,
Yakim.
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Yakim Peled wrote:
Just to add a bit more info, I replaced the 17-40/4 L for the 10-22, the 24-105/4 L for the 17-55 and the 100/2.8 for the 60/2.8. IQ is every bit as good or (in the former case) a tad better. Also, after owning the 17-55 alongside the 35/1.4 L and Sigma 50/1.4 for several months I eventually sold the primes as they became redundant. It's O.K., I have 5 more.
It depends if you want to limit yourself to crop sensors, I have personally more or less given up on them as I find full frame cameras so much easier to get properly sharp results from.
Canon wants to create a 'second-class' system of crop cameras and lenses, so it sells more gear. I'm not playing that game any longer
twilighter wrote:
The new Sony A850 is full-frame and will be sold for $2000.
Nikon D700 is full-frame and has been well known for a good AF system.
Canon will disappoint many of us by announcing a 7D with a cropped-sensor. They are likely to lose some market share to Sony and Nikon because of this.
I hope the rumors and the posted pictures turn out to be fake.
Now let's just think about how Sony competed with Nintendo and Sega.
Would you rather they announced the 50D II erm I mean 60D, same old same old with HD video.
Plenty of were disappointed with the 5D II AF and wondered if they would ever offer pro level AF in a consumer body and many said no. At least now it appears they have finally pulled their finger out. This means eventually the 5D II will cop the upgrade too. They have to start some where. Plenty to like about this camera even as a 1.6x cropper, it is an aswer to the D300s. I have 1 series but would love a great focusing cropper as well.
mjkoolio wrote:
Haven't read the Whole thread... but can I get this?
1D/s mkIII
7D
5D mkII
50D
bla bla bla?
Or does the 7D replace the 5DmkII?
No, if true the 7D would sit under the 5D II as an advanced 1.6x crop camera, with essentially a 1 series type AF, better sealing, faster frame rate, HD video, etc than 50D. It appears to be Canon's answer to the D300s.
Well, as a long-time Canon owner I am still sitting here by the sidelines with my old 5D. I am still waiting for Canon to put out something that will really entice me to spend some more money, and it hasn't happened yet.
The 5D2 has always sounded like a good camera to me, but only an incremental improvement over what I have now. I'm not convinced it will help me take pictures sufficiently better to justify its cost. And it still has too many shortcomings.
The 7D doesn't interest me because I really like full frame. And I'm somewhat surprised that it appears to have pro-level features that are not in the 5D2.
The pro offerings are too expensive.
Canon used to really innovate but lately it seems their only focus is evolutionary improvements and market segmentation. --c
"I have never seen or used an EF-S lens that wasn't very averagely built and vastly over priced."
try the 60mm 2.8 macro, mate.
"This means eventually the 5D II will cop the upgrade too."
that's something that i find to be encouraging. (possibly false consolation after having shelled out 2700 for a camera that has an iron-age af module, but wth.) if the 50D successor has this wunder-af, then the 5D2's successor will have to have it ({*nervously*} right? right?). and with the FF dslr wars heating up, we just might see in 24 months time a 5D3 with the proper af. better late than never.
Paolo Dolina wrote:
Man wish I could say that in local forum. I'd get stonned if I did.
Ferrari is pretty useless if you need to haul a bunch of people, or get a few miles off the maintained road, or bring a load of firewood home. Different tools for different purposes. Just because I only need a certain feature set doesn't mean that I'm being betrayed if someone makes a tool that meets other people's requirements.
Enjoy your 5D series; I'm happy for you that Canon served your market first. I'm looking forward to putting a 7D on the back of my 500.
abam wrote: "I have never seen or used an EF-S lens that wasn't very averagely built and vastly over priced."
try the 60mm 2.8 macro, mate.
"This means eventually the 5D II will cop the upgrade too."
that's something that i find to be encouraging. (possibly false consolation after having shelled out 2700 for a camera that has an iron-age af module, but wth.) if the 50D successor has this wunder-af, then the 5D2's successor will have to have it ({*nervously*} right? right?). and with the FF dslr wars heating up, we just might see in 24 months time a 5D3 with the proper af. better late than never....Show more →
Once the AF genie is out of the bottle, it'll appear in future cameras including a consumer FF.
I can't help to wonder if this could be the first step in the merging of the 1 series. If it is as good as speculated in this thread it will take many nature and sports shooters away from the 1 series and anyone else wanting more effective focal length for that matter. Allowing one full frame 1 series pro body. Just a thought.
It depends if you want to limit yourself to crop sensors, I have personally more or less given up on them as I find full frame cameras so much easier to get properly sharp results from.
In what way does someone "limit" themselves using croppers? Personally I'd be more limited by FF.
Croppers absolutely ideal for certain kinds of photography and most people seem to have no problems whatsoever getting "properly sharp" images from them.
In fact I'd go as far as to say that if a competent photographer can't get sharp as you like images using a cropper, the camera body isn't the issue.
WillWeb wrote:
Different tools for different purposes. Just because I only need a certain feature set doesn't mean that I'm being betrayed if someone makes a tool that meets other people's requirements.
Some people do seem to find that idea hard to get their head round, don’t they?
