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5D any regrets?

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What the heck can I add that hasn't been said? Seriously, what's not to love? The 5D is everything I hoped it would be. The overall experience has actually exceeded my expectations. Kudos Canon, I'm so glad that I took the risk to be an early adopter on this one.
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'Life is pleasant, death is peaceful; it's the transition that's troublesome' - Isaac Asimov
 
It's all that I expected when I first got the Rebel 300D, and thought I had, almost, with the 20D: the rich detail of the images; less prone to blown hightlights when I use it correctly. It's the reason I never bought any EF-S lenses.
 
No Camera is perfect...they all have some pluses and minuses. So does the 5D. Aside from the price and a few minor bumps(no fill flash), it's a totally awesome buy. When you shoot picts with the 5D your world in photography will transpose to another plane..another realm. You'll see! And you'll never look back! ANd these forums will seem insignificant. You'll fly with the 5D!
Wayne
 
i upgraded from 20D to 5D. the 5D AF at center pt has been greatly improved. not to mention the dynamic response and the resolution.

however, i recently found that the pixel density is also important for wide and far shot. note 20D pixel density is higher.

i am not a fan of the 17-40L. but it works noticably better on 20D than 5D. i am not talking about the corner distortion. actually, the distortion is much obvious even a bit off center.

i found the pic from 5D, even the center crop, is coaser (i previously describe it 'oil-paint' like in a thread here) than 20D.

anyone can confirm my observation?
 
Eden Yip said:
anyone can confirm my observation?
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I can't. Also, you never answered whether or not you saw in my sample shot what you see from yours.

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Lee Jay
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There is one reason and one reason only as a prime motivation to UG to the 5d from a 20d and that is the extra resolution and FF sensor and if you dont need either of those 2 you are spending a lot of money for what amounts to frills. If spending that type of cash for "handling" and a bigger but not brighter viewfinder doesnt bother you , so be it , you wont get any significant high iso improvement over the 20d with the 5d.

You might be sorely dissapointed in a few months if you buy on "features" and the 20d successor comes out with slightly better than the 20d and almost the same resolution as the 5d.

I repeat , the 5d's reason for existance and price is only cos of its FF sensor and in your original post you dont even mention this as a prime reason or a reason at all?
Read this thread for some more info and to see what others think
http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/317407

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Rodney Gold

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DoctorG1 said:
you wont get any significant high
iso improvement over the 20d with the 5d.
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This is not true. I'll be posting about this soon, but with a proper comparison, there is quite a huge difference.

Oh...and I already know what Phil said in his review. He's not exactly wrong but he's not exactly right either.

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Lee Jay
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If you say its not true now , then prove it now , not at some later stage.

If you can prove in some way that Phil is wrong and you are right and there is a HUGE difference tween the 2 cameras in terms of high iso , all good and well. As of now there is no evidence of this

I have both cameras and use both in work and at home and no matter what my workflow is and how I process , there is no real significant improvement whatsoever between the 2 in any way I output the results. I print real big (large format giclee type printing) where these significant iso differences would be obvious on close inspection and they are not. At any rate , shooting at high iso's with either of these cameras is not that great , its not like 800/1600/3200 iso has no noise at all , pretty visible on big prints with both.
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Rodney Gold

The nicest thing about smacking your head against the the wall is.......The feeling you get when you stop
 
I regret that I didn't have this 5D when I spent time in Italy this summer.

Now I'll just have to go back and do it all again.

Oh, darn.
 
Same here.

I regret that I did not have my 5D for my 20-day Western US road trip in summer this year and my trip to Boston last month. My 20D did a great job for me in those awesome places. Now that I have this wonderful 5D in my hands, I really wish I could go back in time to retake all the pictures with my 5D.

What do I like about 5D? It is very subjective. I am just an "advanced" amateur and all I care is whether I enjoy my cameras and lenses or not. I really don't care about all the comparisons.

I love the mirror slap/shutter sound of my 5D. It has a very different sound and vibration from my 20D. The feeling is so addictive that every day I cannot wait to go home to press the shutter a few times just to satisfy my urge.

I love the full frame viewfinder (please note: the viewfielder, not the sensor). The view is huge and bright I find myself enjoying so much just to look at everything through the viewfinder without even taking any pictures.

I love the Custom dial which I set to take RAW, AV, AE Lock/AF, no sharpening, no noise reduction. It allows to take my pictures more seriously and as a result learn more.

Sorry. I talk too much. I just cannot resist expressing my satisfaction of my 5D. Thanks for listening.

JS
 
Zetto said:
I want to upgrade from 20D to 5D because of the handling, feel and
viewfinder of the 5D. Also I want the better Iso ability.
Is there anyone alround who has regretted to buy the 5D?
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The 20D and 5D are so similar, there can't be any "regret". Also, moving from a 20D to a 5D isn't an "upgrade", it's rather a switch. If you are looking for a significantly better camera than the 20D, then get a 1DIIN or a used 1DII. If you are looking for significantly better image quality, then you have to wait until new models will be released.

Compared to the 20D, the 5D is also also a "downgrade" in terms of certain characteristics (moiré, sync time, AI servo banding, battery consumption, storage requirements), so watch out. Given these considerations and the fact that the 5D is twice as expensive as a 20D, that 5D is rather bad value.

The most important difference is the way your lenses will behave: this can save you a lot of money (=not having to cover the wide range with super wide optics anymore) or then trigger much more spendings (=getting good lenses to make really use of the 5D, stocking up focal lengths at the long end). Whether a 5D makes sense for you depends very much on your preferred subjects and your shooting stlye.
 
DoctorG1 said:
Read this thread for some more info and to see what others think
http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/317407
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Rodney, I read the first 2 pages of the FM thread...it was essentially a twin of the comment here.

The one guy who made negative comments concluded with the statement that he was buying a 5D in "the next fiscal year" which might be 30 days away.

I feel like those who regret that they jumped first for the 20D, or earlier models, missed using it on a great trip just before it was released, have parked the 20D, miss the reach of their 70~200, etc. None of which is negative comment.

What I really don't miss is the rancor and BS that went on in the 20D forum...your comment was the first negative one I noticed on this thread...and you seem to have misunderstood the sarcasm on the FM thread.

If the other poster's comment about pixel density is accurate then why is my Pro1 8 MP with 137,000 pixels per sq. mm. in no way the equal of even the 8.2 MP 20D with 24,000 pixels per sq. mm.? The 1DsMKII is only 19,000 pixels per sq.mm., but seems to be the better resolver of all the single digit Canon D series.
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Joe Sesto
 
i did see the oil-paint/coarseness issues in your sample. however, it's a web size photo. and i bet your center crop is so sharp that i believe it should have been heavily sharpened.

do u have sample in standard settings, e.g. with in camera preset picture sytles. that would be much easier to compare anything to a reference standard.

anyway, do u find you can in general get results with detailed as what you posted, or just one or two examples you could get pic from 17-40 on 5d?
ljfinger said:
Eden Yip said:
anyone can confirm my observation?
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I can't. Also, you never answered whether or not you saw in my
sample shot what you see from yours.

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Lee Jay
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lee, i also didn't notice any significant noise perfermance improvement over 20D. but i do feel the DR and contrast of pics from 5D noticably better.

from side by side comparsion, when reviewing some of the old 20d pics and some recent 5d pics, i feel that in some cases the pics from 5d were much noisy than expected even at low ISO.
 
Hiya Joe,

You need to read the whole thread , at the end , the "sarcastic" guy actually stated he wasnt being sarcastic and only a few folk saw where he

Not one actual owner , including myself , regrets the purchase , its those that dont own the Camera that DON'T regret having purchased one , a completely different state of affairs in my book.

At the end of it all , this camera is very expensive and as we all know , with digital , the camera is the consumable so those wanting to invest in it should make very sure they are doing so for the right reasons and the benefits they get should be realisable now. I suppose it depends on the individual as to a true cost/benefit analysis. In my case the purchase price has already been covered in terms of my clients satisfaction in the increase in print quality and pop etc.

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Rodney Gold

The nicest thing about smacking your head against the the wall is.......The feeling you get when you stop
 
Is the 5D really that prone to banding? I read about this and it scares me, because I think banding is a deal breaker for such a expensive camera.

I was just upset to discover banding with my 20D, and wouldnt apreciate to see that more detailed at 12.8 MP.

But I am curious: How comes there are so many satisfied (professional) users here alround, if 5D has real banding problems. Is it rather a thing that occurs once a year after thousands of shots?

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Zetto

Billy Jean is not my lover
 
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