Eric Mastilak wrote:
I use my 7D for kids sports and my 5D2 for mostly everything else. I love the 8fps the 7D gives me. I am very happy with my current lineup of lenses. I am on the edge of selling my 7D and 5D2 bodies to get a 5D3. What is the wisdom of the FM community on this?
i\'ve been thinking of it too, the new 5D3 pricing makes it a bit less appealing though
it would be an easier call had they priced it the old 5D2 price or given it all the video specs it should\'ve had or the early rumored 7fps or 1.5 stops more dynamic range or 8-14 more MP and left it with the old style viewfinder and kept the rest as is. (sadly they still didn\'t even make a working autoiso, not the biggest deal, but it was such an utterly ridiculous petty little crippling, good companies don\'t pull stuff like that)
still you do gain, much better SNR for video (probably a good 1.5 stops), no line skipping for video so no basty moire/aliasing, hopefully much better AF than on either body (I never found the 7D AF to be THAT amazing, my 5D2 center point for stills was as good or better and even for ai servo, if the subject wasn\'t too close, it seemed to do as well but both had plenty of issues for tracking serious-level sports at times), hopefully a solid 2/3 stop better SNR (although this really remains to be seen, if it is like 2/3-1 stop better then OK they did do something solid with the sensor, if it is just 1/3 stop then....), histogram visible outside in the sun, better quick image review options, faster response an fps on the FF body, get it all at once in one (FF) body
you do lose reach which is a shame for wildlife (and sports at times), 2fps (IF the AF is THAT much better it might partially make up for the lost 2fps, not always, but sometimes), nice 5D2-style viewfinder where you can actually see everything that is going on, a second body for when that helps, a solid chunk of money even after selling both used bodies off (and their dumping 5D2 for cheap now hasn\'t helped the resale value any which just makes the $ side look even yet worse again and they won\'t even have pro 5d3 kits ready now for months, if ever, which helps $ yet even further less)
you sadly don\'t gain any low ISO dynamic range or detail or FF reach or truly crisp video or video focus peaking or stuff that 100% needed to be in there such as zebra stripes for video or a c300-like 2x2 sampled 1.6x crop video mode and working AutoISO and more control over video codec/better codec
Also, when you are not distant limited and do want ok speed and fancier AF you\'d do much better for image quality since it\'d be FF sensor vs. APS-C sensor.
Eric Mastilak wrote:
I use my 7D for kids sports and my 5D2 for mostly everything else. I love the 8fps the 7D gives me. I am very happy with my current lineup of lenses. I am on the edge of selling my 7D and 5D2 bodies to get a 5D3. What is the wisdom of the FM community on this?
i\'ve been thinking of it too, the new 5D3 pricing makes it a bit less appealing though
it would be an easier call had they priced it the old 5D2 price or given it all the video specs it should\'ve had or the early rumored 7fps or 1.5 stops more dynamic range or 8-14 more MP and left it with the old style viewfinder and kept the rest as is. (sadly they still didn\'t even make a working autoiso, not the biggest deal, but it was such an utterly ridiculous petty little crippling, good companies don\'t pull stuff like that)
still you do gain, much better SNR for video (probably a good 1.5 stops), no line skipping for video so no basty moire/aliasing, hopefully much better AF than on either body (I never found the 7D AF to be THAT amazing, my 5D2 center point for stills was as good or better and even for ai servo, if the subject wasn\'t too close, it seemed to do as well but both had plenty of issues for tracking serious-level sports at times), hopefully a solid 2/3 stop better SNR (although this really remains to be seen, if it is like 2/3-1 stop better then OK they did do something solid with the sensor, if it is just 1/3 stop then....), histogram visible outside in the sun, better quick image review options, faster response an fps on the FF body, get it all at once in one (FF) body
you do lose reach which is a shame for wildlife (and sports at times), 2fps (IF the AF is THAT much better it might partially make up for the lost 2fps, not always, but sometimes), nice 5D2-style viewfinder where you can actually see everything that is going on, a second body for when that helps, a solid chunk of money even after selling both used bodies off (and their dumping 5D2 for cheap now hasn\'t helped the resale value any which just makes the $ side look even yet worse again and they won\'t even have pro 5d3 kits ready now for months, if ever, which helps $ yet even further less)
you sadly don\'t gain any low ISO dynamic range or detail or FF reach or truly crisp video or video focus peaking or stuff that 100% needed to be in there such as zebra stripes for video or a c300-like 2x2 sampled 1.6x crop video mode and working AutoISO and more control over video codec/better codec
Apr 13, 2012 at 02:15 PM
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