5D Mark II Hands on Preview

Question

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http://www.dpreview.com/previews/canoneos5dmarkII

Answer 1

It still exhibits a problem I saw with the 1Ds Mark II and the 5D where there is color noise in the dark colors a green magenta modeling the color is polluted in general not like the D3 or the D700.
I believe that the comparison of the sharpness of the canon to the D3 was done not in exactly a scientific way I read a brief note somewhere that the observer noted that the Cannon may have had a bit too much sharpening applied in the camera.
In other words you can stand on your head and do flips but you can't make some that is not rue true you can only make it seem to be with magic tricks and we all know there is no magic.
Rushing to judgment is I agree not a good thing but proclaiming a camera as being an advancement without ever getting your hands on one is not wise.
One has to keep in mind that these are jpegs and you usually see images form the D3 from a raw file. However what convinced me was that I saw some images posted of the D3 that were shot as jpeg and they did not exhibit this problem. So i tried it I have several images I shot of a project that were captured as jpeg and I was surprised to not see this problem using the D3 in the field. That really convinced me to buy it.
As far as casually shooting images on an afternoon walk or not could mean a really nice fee gone down the drain. Perhaps Larry Todie can afford to spend $3,000 on a camera and not return a profit but to me there is no such thing as casually shooting.
But I will offer my blessing to you larry and your hobbies expensive as they may be.
You should keep in mind that Linda is using her equipment for professional purposes
if she already has what she m=needs and no real compelling reason to upgrade then she may want to put the money elsewhere. It is an improvement no doubt about it. But I would not pass judgment on it until I got my hands on it and I will test it then and make my judgment based on the performance under the condition I use the cameras.
BTW Phil reading specs are meaningless you have to test it in the field.
My feeling n the Camera is that it is a fine piece of professional equipment but the next go around is probably what Linda wants. Though I think she should rent one or borrow one first after they become available.