Soldato
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I've not used one, but the Canon 50 1.4 seems to get very good reviews and would work very well on a 5D body.
Agreed, the Canon 50 1.4 would be a great match.
I've not used one, but the Canon 50 1.4 seems to get very good reviews and would work very well on a 5D body.
I was chatting to a pro photographer we had in to take some corporate photo's yesterday about this. He generally uses the 5dii as his main whilst having a 5di as a backup camera. He said he's thinking of switching back to the 5di for a bit because of something to do with the way the images look....I forget his exact words but he seemed to be implying there's some kind of processing or similar that goes off to give the images something a bit different to that of other cameras?
Does this ring true with those that still use it? Can you explain what it is?
I'v heard similar to this as well. Apparently the 5Di has a slightly different quality to it's look, supposedly akin to film. What I think these people are actually describing is the sharpness and the higher micro contrast the 5di can deliver at pixel level due to a weaker AA filter. This gives images a 'crisp' look, without needing additional processing, it's kind of like the D800 vs D800E, where the E delivers noticeably more micro contrast in small details like foliage.
Of course by the time a 5dii image is down sampled down to a 12mp file, I would think they would be of about equal sharpness.
Jeff Ascough has commented that the 5Diii has a thinner AA filter and said that his 50L is like a whole new lens on the mk3 compare to the mk2.
I'd imagine that comes more down to suddenly having usable autofocus rather than any huge change in IQ? Sure the 5D3 is better but the 50L isn't exactly pushing IQ boundaries given both the 50 1.4 and 1.8 can be sharper than it (though with other characteristics worse, the sharpness is the main thing affected by the AA filter).
Narh, he specifically talked about the AA filter, he refers to the files created, not about the AF.