Re: 5DMKII flaws, post pictures which were lost because of the camera
Dawei Ye wrote:
Personally, I think the poor AF sensitivity and accuracy and speed of the 5D2 is more of an issue than the low ISO pattern noise. The inability to use the outer points is annoying too - for my low light purposes with fast primes, the 5D2 is essentially a 1 AF point camera...thank god for its excellent cropability.
That\'s weird, I must have a super special 5D2 then, because I have no problems focusing in low light, just yesterday I shot at 1/100 f1.8 iso 6400 without a glitch.
By the way I also used a 1Ds3 in the past, but that wasn\'t good at large apertures with the outer focus points either. It would focus, but the focus would be off. This might not even be the camera\'s fault but more of the lens. Lenses let more light in at the center of the image than on the edges, so that might throw of the AF system.
I\'ve realized now there\'s always some compromise to be made. You can\'t expect a camera to work perfectly in every condition, but if you know the weaknesses you can work around them.
Taking that into consideration I find the 5D2 to be an amazing camera. I wasn\'t expecting it to be too different from my old 5D, but it has exceeded my expectations.
Re: 5DMKII flaws, post pictures which were lost because of the camera
Dawei Ye wrote:
Personally, I think the poor AF sensitivity and accuracy and speed of the 5D2 is more of an issue than the low ISO pattern noise. The inability to use the outer points is annoying too - for my low light purposes with fast primes, the 5D2 is essentially a 1 AF point camera...thank god for its excellent cropability.
That\'s weird, I must have a super special 5D2 then, because I have no problems focusing in low light, just yesterday I shot at 1/100 f1.8 iso 6400 without a glitch.
By the way I also used a 1Ds3 in the past, but that wasn\'t good at large apertures with the outer focus points either. It would focus, but the focus would be off.
I\'ve realized now there\'s always some compromise to be made. You can\'t expect a camera to work perfectly in every condition, but if you know the weaknesses you can work around them.
Nov 03, 2009 at 07:36 PM
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