Review on 📷 Canon EOS 5D 12.8 MP Digital SLR Camera (Body Only) - Perfect for Professional Photography by Scott Ramu

Switching from Nikon to Canon was difficult (and expensive), but it was worth it. I've always felt that my Nikon could be sharper. I went to Canon for lenses and I'm not disappointed and neither are you. The D5 with the 24-105L series lens is a great setup, extremely versatile. This is not a compromise camera. Is it perfect, no, but a very, very good camera and lens. I mainly use this camera to photograph artworks. I use strobe lights and sometimes available light or a 580ex flash. The lens is bright enough for my purposes. In fact, I try not to go below 5.6 for sharpness. Remember that when using the widest zoom, don't fill the frame as some will fall off in the corners. Color reproduction is beautiful straight out of the camera and is nearly flawless, with very little post-processing required. That was the most disappointing thing about Nikon. Sitting in front of Photoshop fixing bad photos just sucks. Then why a score of 4 and not 5? I would like to give it a 4.7 because it's not perfect, no camera. I sometimes use a Hasselblad with a Phaseone digital back and it's not perfect ($30,000 setup). D5 with Canon lenses isn't a Hasselblad, but it's damn close for the 10th price. Did I want 1ds mark iii? You bet. But for less than 1/3 the cost, it's a much better value. Things I like: Full frame, L series lenses, true wide angle, reasonable body size, good weight, good button layout, simple menu, nice lens. , great colour, great diopter adjustment, high resolution for the price, good battery life, ergonomics and a very reasonable price for a great camera. Things that could be better: the timer should be adjustable (e.g. 2 second delay for tripod operation), one or 2 buttons for user settings (instead of the stupid push button). Simplified white balance setup and controls, confusing resolution descriptions, pop-up fill flash would be very useful in a pinch, time-lapse controls would be fun. , modest multi-shot speed, slow (almost) lens (F-4 isn't bad, and you can get very, very fast Canon lenses if you need them), lens weight, slight image cropping in preview, no live view on LCD, no fill flash, grainy at very high ISOs (up to 800 I found the camera quite impressive). Unacceptable things: no. A few words about RAW. This camera has many resolution settings. From Medium JPEG to Raw and Raw with JPEG. To me, this is primarily a studio camera, so I don't use burst mode very often. Therefore, I will not comment on the speed of taking multiple pictures. When I do portraits, I might be happy about it. But I use RAW for everything I shoot, and so should you. As far as possible anyway, yes, the files are bigger, so what. The $40 Extreme III card can store hundreds of images. A 500GB hard drive can store over 30,000 files! Here is the advantage of raw materials. It gets better with age. Raw data processing has improved from Photoshop cs1 to 2 and 3. The old raw data I had actually looks better in the newer versions. So if you keep your old RAW photos intact, you will get better quality photos for years to come. RAW allows for amazing customization. With jpeg or even tiff there is no going back. They are what they are. Bottom line: a camera can't take good photos, that's the photographer's job. That's why I love this camera so much, it slides easily out of my way so I can contribute. This is a nice camera with a nice lens at a great price. Buy a good UV filter to protect your lens and some CF cards and you're good to go.