jpbc
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-Owner for more than 10 years of a Minolta 7000i
(Minolta 28mm 2.8 and Minolta 50mm 1.4)
-Owner of 5D + 18-70 for about a month and have taken 2000+ photos (RAW and JPG).
-All photos taken with P, M, A and S modes, adobeRGB.
-With RAW you do miracles correcting over or under-exposed photos (using Adobe ACR, not DigiMaster)
-Excelent AF (better than my old 7000i and has a very usefull Direct Manual Focus for portraits).
-18-70 is really good (and excellent for the money it costs). At 28mm there is almost no difference with photos taken with my fixed 28mm 2.8. At 18mm it is very good too. Not so good at 50mm or 70mm (huge difference comparing with my 50mm 1.4, especially the boken).
-The viewfinder is very bright
-Anti-shake works really well. I have taken sharp photos at 28mm with 1second shuter - 6 or 7 stops less than what was safe! (in this case I take 3 or 4 photos so I get one sharp).
-Photos are a lite bit soft but using unsharp mask they become very sharp (and you can select what to sharp or not).
-Very low noise, only bad at 3200 ISO
-Very good and natural colors
-The built-in flash works very well (I always compensate flash -1 to -1.5 stops, otherwise, for me, it gets too visible the photo was taken with flash)
Problems:
-Some photos with high contrast get burned on the highlights (now i allways have, by default, -1/3 exposure compensation). I think this is not a particular problem of this camera, anyway.
-The software DigimasterLite is so slow converting from RAW that it gets unusefull (fortunatly ACR is fast)
-Lack of a custom program/mode
-RAW continuous shot limited to 4 photos (with JPG no problems, maybe 15 or 20 photos)
-There is not a focus assist red lamp (as with my 7000i). To assist AF the built-in flash is used instead .
-6MP instead of 8MP. I think this is more a KM marketing problem than a real problem. IF 5D was 8MP everyone would buy 5D instead of the Canon 350. For me, I would like to have 8MP for crops.
-There is not Minolta a especifically for digital tele-zoom like the 100-300APO (more light and cheap than the non-Digital version). I would by one if it was so good and cheap as the 18-70
(Minolta 28mm 2.8 and Minolta 50mm 1.4)
-Owner of 5D + 18-70 for about a month and have taken 2000+ photos (RAW and JPG).
-All photos taken with P, M, A and S modes, adobeRGB.
-With RAW you do miracles correcting over or under-exposed photos (using Adobe ACR, not DigiMaster)
-Excelent AF (better than my old 7000i and has a very usefull Direct Manual Focus for portraits).
-18-70 is really good (and excellent for the money it costs). At 28mm there is almost no difference with photos taken with my fixed 28mm 2.8. At 18mm it is very good too. Not so good at 50mm or 70mm (huge difference comparing with my 50mm 1.4, especially the boken).
-The viewfinder is very bright
-Anti-shake works really well. I have taken sharp photos at 28mm with 1second shuter - 6 or 7 stops less than what was safe! (in this case I take 3 or 4 photos so I get one sharp).
-Photos are a lite bit soft but using unsharp mask they become very sharp (and you can select what to sharp or not).
-Very low noise, only bad at 3200 ISO
-Very good and natural colors
-The built-in flash works very well (I always compensate flash -1 to -1.5 stops, otherwise, for me, it gets too visible the photo was taken with flash)
Problems:
-Some photos with high contrast get burned on the highlights (now i allways have, by default, -1/3 exposure compensation). I think this is not a particular problem of this camera, anyway.
-The software DigimasterLite is so slow converting from RAW that it gets unusefull (fortunatly ACR is fast)
-Lack of a custom program/mode
-RAW continuous shot limited to 4 photos (with JPG no problems, maybe 15 or 20 photos)
-There is not a focus assist red lamp (as with my 7000i). To assist AF the built-in flash is used instead .
-6MP instead of 8MP. I think this is more a KM marketing problem than a real problem. IF 5D was 8MP everyone would buy 5D instead of the Canon 350. For me, I would like to have 8MP for crops.
-There is not Minolta a especifically for digital tele-zoom like the 100-300APO (more light and cheap than the non-Digital version). I would by one if it was so good and cheap as the 18-70