Diego Garcia
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Hi all,
Not a review as to early for that and not enough glass, but I went out with my 5D 2 tonight. First of all it was a relief to be holding a camera lighter in the hand as much as I love my D3, as I said, it was heavy and not that discrete. I wandered about looking for something that would test the resolution and sensor and found it at the new shopping centre in Bristol. Took a couple of frames as seen. Looks good, no noise evident as such until you peep at 100% but no noisier or less noisey than the D3. Lots of detail. Will post more as and when. I was going to show off some HD video, but cant work out how to get it into i movies.
PS, I picked up the 17-40 for mountain bike work, boxing ring corners and other fun stuff like that. My 50mm arrives tomorrow. I have pulled the plug on the 85 for now and may opt for the 135 F2 L which may suit me better at the moment. Not sure however. The 17-40 is not as sharp as the 24-70 Nano, but that stands to reason. I would like the 85 however as personally, from experience I found the shutter slap to hard on the D3 with the 1.4 aperture, which meant 1/125th or faster a lot of the time. I am sure it cost sharpness. The shutter on the 5D 2 is super quiet and like its older brother not intrusive.
Another thing to note is that my light room 2 export is currently refined for the D3 so the 5D shots may be over sharp. The verticals look a little jagged which leads me to think I will lower the output sharpening routine when I convert to TIFF.
So, at the moment, nothing to make me go wow, but nothing to make me go mmmm, just a solid, great camera that will let me take nice photos. Hope my findings will be of use to someone in anyway, shape or form.
More as and when.
Pete.
Not a review as to early for that and not enough glass, but I went out with my 5D 2 tonight. First of all it was a relief to be holding a camera lighter in the hand as much as I love my D3, as I said, it was heavy and not that discrete. I wandered about looking for something that would test the resolution and sensor and found it at the new shopping centre in Bristol. Took a couple of frames as seen. Looks good, no noise evident as such until you peep at 100% but no noisier or less noisey than the D3. Lots of detail. Will post more as and when. I was going to show off some HD video, but cant work out how to get it into i movies.
PS, I picked up the 17-40 for mountain bike work, boxing ring corners and other fun stuff like that. My 50mm arrives tomorrow. I have pulled the plug on the 85 for now and may opt for the 135 F2 L which may suit me better at the moment. Not sure however. The 17-40 is not as sharp as the 24-70 Nano, but that stands to reason. I would like the 85 however as personally, from experience I found the shutter slap to hard on the D3 with the 1.4 aperture, which meant 1/125th or faster a lot of the time. I am sure it cost sharpness. The shutter on the 5D 2 is super quiet and like its older brother not intrusive.
Another thing to note is that my light room 2 export is currently refined for the D3 so the 5D shots may be over sharp. The verticals look a little jagged which leads me to think I will lower the output sharpening routine when I convert to TIFF.
So, at the moment, nothing to make me go wow, but nothing to make me go mmmm, just a solid, great camera that will let me take nice photos. Hope my findings will be of use to someone in anyway, shape or form.
More as and when.
Pete.
