The camera differs in important ways from more favorable.
The full-frame sensor:
Depth potential, resolution, noise performance and light intensity are a dream.
But: you just buy the Body. To use this sensor you need optics that (if possible) until the edge regions sharp, bright, distortion-free, color-accurate and high contrast maps. The modest resolution of the sensor (ie, the number of distributed over the surface pixels) is perfectly adapted for the 5D for available-light photography. This is only fun with fast lenses.
Are you ready,
to familiarize themselves with the optical physics to understand the lens technology?
spend many times the price of this camera bodies with lenses?
Identifying necessary corrections of the complex in this price range optics of the camera and in the software and apply?
To familiarize themselves with an auto focus, which without this incorporation to more sharpness problems leads despite (or because of) the highest levels than with a smartphone camera, because the shallow depth of field and the measured field options require knowledge and practice. You should also note that the brilliant autofocus is fully usable only with the highest quality and light-reinforced lenses.
The Camera RAW:
If you disable this format, you do not need this camera. If you select this format, you can Allerding on an adventure.
Are you ready,
to familiarize themselves with the complex subject of color spaces, color systems and color profiles?
is to create a soft proof capable monitor (> 1000), which allows you in the first place to view the native gamut of the camera?
To purchase software and to learn it in order to take advantage of the sense of the format (lossless editing and presentation in the used color space) can?
Touching each photo to turn to exploit the potential of the format and appearance?
Manage the resulting data volumes (RAW, JPG possibly in several variants), organize, archive (at least two backups)?
Processing:
The camera is weather-protected, made of a titanium alloy and almost used in every photographically meaningful situation. This looks and feels you.
Are you ready,
the weight and size to carry anywhere where it is worthwhile to take pictures? These are quickly several kilos just around the neck, the trunk not to mention with the right optics. They are restricted in their freedom of movement, pull greedy glances. Dare to roam the bazaar from Casablanca to designs by the strap with 4,000?
to dispense with a pop-up flash to allow this robustness? And nachgehakt They should also be prepared to familiarize themselves with the flash photography, especially the unleashed flashes as red eyes and shadows do not want to seem to fit with the rest of technology. But away from the camera moves to a rat's tail, from the synchronization of complex settings with light modifiers to the pure cost of external flashes, softbox and transmitter.
without a swiveling monitor? However, this means that you need to use at ground-level perspectives additional monitor and Live View technology, you want to control the image beforehand.
The movie mode
You can film such professionally with the camera that you could show the result in the cinema next to Hollywood productions. To form and content more to offer than shaky children in endless settings I have the following questions:
Are you also ready
to familiarize themselves with film theory, a subject that is at least as complex as the photography?
for questions about the equipment to engage in a barrel, the bottom is again clear bottomless, as in photography (Dolly, Crane, lighting, lens technology)?
again to put significantly more time in the post, as in the photo area? Including the fact that professional editing software is expensive and the necessary hardware as well?
Answer all the questions with yes, you get a non-cash, thoughtful and honest in my eyes amazing camera in the sense that Canon has also hit supposedly unpopular decisions (flash, resolution, etc.) to target a closed audience.
I have the camera now a year and trust me, the review is not a week earlier on. I hardly use the Movie mode, overviews just as the settings and discover new issues more quickly than I can open it. I have to justify my hobby financially and temporally before the occupation and the family, the camera is also weeks in the trunk and raises questions about the proportionality.
Nevertheless, I do not regret buying, I want to give up anything. A camera that me each time you use relaxed (quality) and calls (quantity).
What I miss? Built-in GPS, a USB3 connection and a camera internal radio transmitter for off-camera flash.
