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Re: Canon EOS 5D Mark II master thread
eosfun wrote: I use both, extensively, at every job. Canon provides an M/AF switch so that photographers can take manual control when they need to.
I know, I didn\'t think of you as one of the above mentioned whiners Richard.
I don\'t think it\'s legitimate to call people whiners when they complain, even bitterly, about the 5D2\'s autofocus. There are a great many reasons why 5D users hoping to upgrade are rightly disappointed with the spasmodic behaviour of Canon\'s AF developments. The solution to complaints about the mk3 and 40D/50D AF systems is to make a better AF system, not go back to a 3-year-old one. A 21 megapixel camera costing £2300 deserves better AF than this, as the Nikon D300 illustrates. I will almost certainly get one of these cameras now, instead of two or three, and it will quite possibly be joined by a D700 or its successor. That\'s what this marketing-led decision has achieved in my little corner.
Sep 18, 2008 at 07:09 AM
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Re: Canon EOS 5D Mark II master thread
eosfun wrote: I use both, extensively, at every job. Canon provides an M/AF switch so that photographers can take manual control when they need to.
I know, I didn\'t think of you as one of the above mentioned whiners Richard.
I don\'t think it\'s legitimate to call people whiners when they complain, even bitterly, about the 5D2\'s autofocus. There are a great many reasons why 5D users hoping to upgrade are rightly disappointed with the spasmodic behaviour of Canon\'s AF developments. The solution to complaints about the mk3 and 40D/50D AF systems is to make a better AF system, not go back to a 3-year-old one. A 21 megapixel camera costing £2000 deserves better AF than this, as the Nikon D300 illustrates.
Sep 18, 2008 at 07:06 AM
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