skibum5 wrote: Daan B wrote: PetKal wrote: Daan B wrote:
Looks like a landscape/commercial cam to me... 21MP is overkill for weddings and every day usage. It remains slow (FPS) and it seems the AF from the 40D/50D has found its way into the 5D2. So sports and wildlife shooting is out of the question also. Not as allround as I would like it to be. I think I will stick with my 1Ds3
One FPS slower than 1DsMkIII. Not a big deal, I reckon.
However, it wouldn\'t surprise me if the 5DII surpasses 1DsMkIII in IQ and high ISO performance.
I think Canon had to assert their prosumer FF camera IQ superiority today......that\'s where the 5D II should shine......if in the process they have to run over their flagship camera, well, so be it.......I guess they figure the 1DsMk IV should fix any bad feelings about that.
Nothing wrong with the IQ and high ISO performance of the 1Ds3. At least not for my usage. I don\'t shoot past ISO 1600 anyway (but ISO 3200 is still very usable). The difference will be in the digic 3 vs 4 since both cams use the same sensor. I doubt the differences will be mind-blowing, if there are any. But we will see that when the 5D2 arrives in the stores, don\'t we?
Besides that, who needs mega high ISO performance in a landscape/studio cam anyway? It is not like the 5D2 is suitable for sports or wildlife shooting. And I hope the mediocre updated 40D AF will be accurate enough to get the most out of the 21MP\'s. If not, you just have a very big file with no more detail than a 10MP cam.
Canon choose to follow its old strategy... Put an awesome sensor in a crappy xxD body (regarding AF, FPS, weathersealing). Let\'s see where that is going to lead them with Nikon and Sony breathing in their necks
other sites are now claiming a new sensor, using gapless technology, better readouts, filters and other processes. If they are to be believed over RG, then the sensor should easily beat the 1DsMkIII\'s. Surely at least 1/2 stop better and I could easily imagine a full stop better (and this is at the RAW level before any DIGIC processing shenanigans)
let\'s just hope the \'minor modifications\' to the AF are just canon being gun-shy about procaiming too much (teh layout is plenty fine for AI servo, for sports at least, if they imrpoved the algorithm a little and made it process faster maybe the old 5D sensor could pull it off). (although why they cant toss the old, old 1dmkii af system in any new cams is beyond me.)
shame couldnt get it to 5fps, which is really the minimum to be of much use beyond 1fps in soem ways.
Yeah, I already picked up upon the upgraded sensor thingy... Still, it remains to be seen how much IQ is different from the 1Ds3. But as I already said, it is not just about IQ if you shoot anything else beside landscapes/studio work. If AF is not accurate enough, you won\'t be getting the most out of the 21MP + new sensor tech. And I still don\'t see the point of putting over the top high ISO\'s on a landscape/studio cam. Maybe for weddings, but who needs 21MP for weddings. Besides that, it seems the overall sluggishness of the 5D is still there (shutterlag/FPS). It doesn\'t read like a very responsive cam to me.
Sep 17, 2008 at 02:29 AM
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