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Review on Canon EOS 5D Mark II Body Camera by Ada Kawala ᠌

Revainrating 3 out of 5

Mediocre product, probably won't use.

I have a whole epic connected with the purchase of this device, it was not my destiny to contact him initially. I went to the dream 5D mark 2 from 350D, 400D, 20D, 40D, 5D, and finally it . I buy it in one store, test it at home and see that the focus just inexplicably walks with all my lenses, while on old 5D in the same conditions, it works perfectly. I returned the device to the store and received the money back, then I tried to buy the device remotely through an ad on the Internet on the photo ru forum, but the money was stolen. Thanks to my meticulousness and perseverance, I found the criminal via the Internet and returned the money with moral compensation. I decided that I would buy everything now only in the store. I came to the store with a laptop, asked for a test of 3 copies, took the same pictures and again the focus of everyone walked wherever they wanted, but, so to speak, within acceptable limits (from a distance to an object of a couple of meters, the focus can go 2-3 cm , and unpredictably, now in the back, then in the front) I chose a copy with the least number of broken and hot pixels, by the way, for some reason I have never seen Canon devices without them, but these are little things in life, visible only in night shots with long exposure. I bought a 24-70 2.8L in addition, which also hit 100 out of 100 frames on my old 5D, and 50% of the marriage on mark2. A friend has the same problem with 5D mark2 and 24-70 2.8L, so we went to the nearest service center for alignment before the season. The nearest SC was in Hong Kong, 500 km from us. In the service center, we were only knocked down the alignment even worse both on the devices and in the lenses, taking 1,500 from each for urgency. After contacting the service center, the lenses do not get on the 5D mark2, nor on the old 5D, although I asked them not to align, but only the camera. Now a friend has chipped in for a ticket to Hong Kong, now he took our equipment to Arsen in Hong Kong. We no longer want to contact warranty service centers, it’s better to give 3 thousand for adjusting the device from a master with good reviews .

Pros
  • Comfortable in the hand, good quality video, wide dynamic range, little noise.
Cons
  • It just infuriates the manufacturer's swine attitude towards 5D mark2, the focus walks wherever it wants, regardless of the class of optics. 21 megapixels, in my opinion, is also a disadvantage, because there is a second device, the old 5D, and I see that even at 24-70 2.8L, the mark gives half as sharp a picture with all equal settings. Yes, and the weight of files with our volumes is 40 Gb of material from each wedding, although people print photos of a maximum of 20 by 30. For me, it would be better if they made the physical size of the pixel larger, it would be better sharpness, dd, less noise . And another minus - the manufacturer deliberately does not support 60 frames per second video, which is even on the 550D, forcing us to buy a second device, and a crop, if we are professionally engaged in DSLR video.