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Review on Canon EOS 5D Mark II Body Camera by Anastazja Woitiul ᠌

Revainrating 3 out of 5

Average purchase, there is something to complain about.

If you shoot with this camera in good light, daylight, studio, the quality of the pictures will be high. But if the lighting is complex, for example, twilight, when pulling shadows from RAV, noise already climbs to ISO 200-400! If you shoot at ISO 800, 1600 and higher, there seems to be no noise, but traces of intra-chamber noise reduction are visible to the naked eye, and hence the drop in detail and blurring of the picture. White balance often lies even with manual installation, I generally keep quiet about automation. That is, if you shoot in artificial light, you almost always need to correct the bb in a rav converter. When shooting video in artificial lighting conditions, there is a terrible flickering, which can sometimes be eliminated by changing the shutter speed, but this does not always help. The biggest failure of the 5D MK II is its 21 megapixel sensor. Kenon's marketers came up with a "brilliant" idea, let's reduce the size of the microlenses and increase the number of megapixels. Then we ask ourselves a question, because in this situation, noise, color distortion and other surprises will invariably appear. After all, the laws of physics have not been canceled yet! It doesn't matter, the engineers from Kenon said, we will install a new processor with aggressive noise reduction that will eliminate these problems! However, if you do not carry out an autopsy of this model, then it is quite possible to remove it and get a satisfactory result. The main thing is good lighting and high-quality optics only for the L-series, fixes are desirable. I hope Kenon will release a camera model with a 35mm sensor and a maximum of 14 megapixels, but certainly not with 21! And make sure the price is right.

Pros
  • Sensor 35mm High-quality photos in good light Video filming
Cons
  • Noisy Matrix. Disgusting colors under artificial lighting. Inconvenient management. Problems with video shooting. Problems with wireless sync. No built-in flash. Overcharge.