bobbytan wrote: stanj wrote: bobbytan wrote:
The 5D and 5D Mk II never pretended to be a camera for fast action .... and therefore there is no need for a better AF system.
Right. So you have now a camera that can do ISO 25600 and can\'t focus in that light with an outer sensor point. Better AF is not only for action sports, but for a slowly paced wedding, indoors, with an 85L close to wide open, too.
If you care about quality you shouldn\'t be shooting past ISO 6400.
But do you honestly believe the average person can tell if you shot at 6400? If you\'ve got a shot of a couple kissing--they are not going to be concerned with the sharpness or amount of noise as long as the image does not look like a bowl of noodle soup--and telling from the 5DII ISO6400 sample images I doubt you would hear any complaints. The point is the 5D tends to hesitate a bit when locking focus in low light, and for the most part when using wide aperture lenses a photographer could use AF points on parts of the frame where there are none (as opposed to making an attempt to focus and recompose)...adding a few points and researching better layouts wouldn\'t be such a bad idea--in fact its only logical. I for one wouldn\'t mind paying an extra $500-1K for \'1-series like\' AF, and I am positive I am among a large portion of those who agree.
Sep 25, 2008 at 06:23 PM
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