[Leica] To Sell or Not to Sell now Canon/Nikon

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

The Canon 5D is one of the top pivotal cameras to come out this millennium.
The first much more compact and affordable full frame camera;
Opening up full frame shooting to the seething masses.
Which means one a professional photographer can afford.
It was reviewed in Nov. 2005 in DP
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canoneos5d/
Took Nikon 3 years to comply;
With the D700. Also pivotal; in a "me too!! Oh yea? take this!" kind of way.

But the 5D's effect on photography in the  beginning of this digital
millennium is unsurpassed. Its a marvelous camera used to make countless
pivotal marvelous photos every day of the week which have become part of our
collective cultural visual memory. And probably more so than any other
camera. I think it deserves some credit and not this picky picky stuff.


Mark William Rabiner



> From: Doug Herr <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:28:15 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] To Sell or Not to Sell now Canon/Nikon
> 
> Chris Williams wrote:
> 
>> Anyone with a Canon 5D may want to check the mirror -
>> http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=PgComSmModDisplayAct&fcatego
>> ryid=139&modelid=11933&keycode=2112&id=55659
>> 
>> It's more than "rare" as Canon puts it, many wedding photogs are having 
>> this
>> problem right now.
> 
> Also note the corporate-speak: a mirror becoming un-glued is a 
> "phenomenon",
> not a manufacturing defect.
> 
> Doug Herr
> Birdman of Sacramento
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com