I am very pleased!  47

I am very pleased! 47

Canon EOS 5D Mark II Digital SLR Camera (21 megapixels) housing (electronics)

Customer Review

I photograph for 30 years, the last years professionally in order and I have tried many cameras and systems since that time.
If I were to draw a bottom line fact is that for me: EOS 5DMK2. Why?
What is important at the picture? On the picture quality! Since I photograph machines in partly dark factory buildings and landscapes, objects and people ablichte, I need a camera that Availible-Light is capable of. The 5dmk2 roars loudly extremely low, according Fotomagazin Colorfoto just as little as the Nikon D3 (see Issue 2/2009) only at almost twice the resolution. 0.5 at 100ASA and 0.9 at 1600 ASA. By comparison, the EOS 1Ds MK3: 0.4 at 100ASA and 1.6 at 1.600ASA. The Nikon D700: 0.6 at 100ASA and 1.0 at 1.600ASA.
So these are peak values! Photos to 3,200 ASA are no problem. 6400 ASA I send then by Lightroom and the noise is done - still with high detail rendition when shooting in RAW and the internal Rauschalgorythmus off. The chip rushes so little that I take the liberty to turn off the noise reduction entirely - result: More sharpness! Denoised images with high ASA paid subsequently on PC - that's much better!

For me, the color display is a further important quality criterion, while the 5D MK2 is currently even a leader in this class (see Color Photo). The colors are natural and come very close to reality, the white balance works better than any other systems that I had in the luggage before.

The camera is only as good as the lenses: So a good material must also here forth, the difference from simple to the professional L lenses is huge. I photographed Wind with the 70-200 / 4 (stronger than the old 2.8 and I do not belly the "fast" and heavy lens), the (for IS ideal in dark halls) 24-105 / 4 and 16-35 / 2.8 (the best wide-angle Canon), and the 100 / 2.8 Macro and the light teat 50 / 1.4 Sigma, which here is much better than the old 50 / 1.4 Canon because it hardly vignetting, is excellently paid and already at full aperture is useful. Canon has with the 4 Series an excellent for me L lens series, the high sharpness even at full aperture.
These 4-lens series was a reason to buy and change due to the system provider for me.

The autofocus is together with the tripping time according to the test report Colorfoto 2/2009 faster than the EOS 1DsMk3 or Nikon700 and in low light even faster than that of the Nikon D3.

While the camera takes only 3.9 images (RAW, 6.400ASA and short tripping time!), Which is insufficient for a motion study, but the real Focus and Shoot is Grotte quickly! But what certainly is the USM drive of lenses - a blink and the focus is on - even in low light. This is just what I wanted!

Now a word to much-maligned Autofocus: When the viewfinder is covered with autofocus fields, then rich in some models almost to the edge of the picture. I need sharp photos - but physically, each lens its vulnerability, the farther it goes to the edge - I really want to work with a 1000 lens edge in the worst area, if I do not absolutely have to?
Previously I had another system with 51 sensors, but when focused on the edge, then broke the lens on at its weakest point, I lost precious sharpness. In addition, the more sensors and automatics I had turned, the longer the needed internal chip to process all data. And rarely an autofocus sensor also focused on the subject, what I was about to photograph. After a short time I worked only with the middle sensor, so that the result came out what I wanted.

Since I anyway edit any good image on the PC after playing an enlargement for me not matter. But I get the sharpest and fastest result. The 5DMK2 focused even in very low light, and not around rödelt seconds as I have experienced it in another system - the irritated perhaps!
What I like right: focusing in less than 1sec. by candlelight on dark objects - no problem. If you consider that a 2,8er lens in small picture format needs a exkaten focal point (! Because the depth of field is small), it becomes clear how well the auto focus really is - because it fits perfectly! When APS-C format different rules than for the full-size policy!

But what Canon could do better: I wish instead of 1 Cross sensor and 8 lines sensors, rather 9 Cross Senoren, but should not extend to the edge of the picture, but only up to the Golden Section. This would be perfect for me.

Now the operation, which is not unimportant for good results in the stresses of everyday life. In the past I preferred my old system many switches and levers simultaneously, which made me full liberty. But: levers and switches can not program it! If little time is available, for me there is nothing better than a rotary switch, which surrounded all the stored data immediately to the desired situation - ingeniously solved with the EOS 5DMK2, in my opinion. This is much faster. 3 programmable positions that capture everything, exposure mode, correction, frame rate, white balance, style, lockup of the mirror, self-timer, high-speed flashes 2.ter curtain, etc. So I create a program for dark rooms, one for portraits, one for quick actions, etc.

All other buttons have dual functions and can be operated blind, the eye remains the viewfinder.
I particularly like the joystick, is perhaps a habit of PC, at any rate a practical part. Like the large thumb that allows a more sensitive and Schneller setting because of its size.

I used to think a good camera always has a wheel in front and a rear hold. Error. As long as I had a slight lens on it which may be true, but as soon as I hold a camera with 2 kg in hand, my experience changed. The camera slips under their own weight down, I claw the thing so solid and now try as quickly as possible with the index finger the front wheel on my old system to operate - it was not fun, the finger always rubbed the middle finger and with fast adjustment of too deep arranged adjusting wheel was nothing there. Probably Canon has therefore sub dial free set up - there is no friction between the fingers and the exposure, aperture, etc. ASA can be scrolled so fast. No matter how hard the camera is equipped. Class.

The menus are clear and kept short and of course a last selected item in each menu is stored, while the menus were longer than the screen on my old system, so that had to be scrolled in many menus, which cost time and the overview hurt.

The EOS 5DMK2 has another ISO-automatic concept that I like very much and my work better supported. The camera automatically detects the selected lens and the focal length and chases the ISO number only as high as necessary, so that the camera shake is minimized (typically: 1 / focal length seconds eg in a 100mm lens 1 / 100th of a second.). While other systems the Auto ISO setting up to the pre-selected ISO-stage drive too fast up and then unnecessary noise to the recording. As I've often wished exactly this mechanism, which I have now found on the Canon 5DMK2.

For me the video function was very important because I need short sequences to functional representation of a machine. Exactly which provides me the 5DMK2 even in a super quality with sound and HDTV resolution - if the same 5DMKII also can not be traded as a classic video camera (At the sound you should use an external microphone!).

Programming of function keys is good art.
But what I find particularly useful: Own key for Picture Styles, dedicated button for LifeView. Own key programmed for recording movies.

The LifeView Canon works useful and very good. With my previous system I fell in concerts on the nose because of LifeView was so loud. By the rattling of the mirror
At Canon, the two motors for the mirror and shutter is controlled so that the entire release operation almost silent, and very quiet running. This makes sense and really useful.

The battery lasts a long time, 850 images are possible if I put no IS lens.
Also great: the focusing screen itself can be changed, I immediately replaced by a grating disc.
In the viewfinder and on the top of the display everything appears well visible, as one would expect from a professional camera.

What is not that great?
The concept in retrospect the images could be improved, I miss the programming of the zoom factor so that you can sit right off by clicking on the 10x zoom. The PowerShot models Canon offers a better way to - the camera show an enlarged detail in the AF point - which is much faster)!
Also I would have liked a little more flexibility in the burn time of the upper display, which goes out again after a few seconds. Since I photograph a lot in a relatively dark halls, that's annoying.

More cons I do not know for me, but surely even more advantages, if I had more time, I could write a book.

What struck me: While I had read in other cameras first 400 pages manual in order to tap the full potential of the camera - I was able to start at the Canon EOS 5DMK2 same with photography. I often caught myself with my old system with this is that I was busy with the camera, rather than with the motif. Some cameras I sank into menus and played at counters around while the Canon EOS 5DMK2 focused my attention on the subject. And that's the point - to the subject of the moment - not the technology should be at the forefront, but the image.

Who can work with his camera so that he / she shoots photos with which the photographer and the viewer are satisfied, the / has found the right camera for yourself. The camera must match the style of work of the photographer and as happens to every individual. My opinion is therefore only a snapshot based on my instantaneous knowledge, experience and financial resources and my designs and requirements.

I hope to have as comprehensively listed the pros and cons here that are important in my view, and who helped you hopefully.

For me, the EOS 5DMK2 including the matching lens was (important!) The right decision today.

Have fun taking pictures!

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