Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/10/14

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Subject: [Leica] Leica R Lenses on Modified Canon 5D
From: images at InfoAve.Net (Tina Manley)
Date: Fri Oct 14 14:20:34 2005
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At 11:48 AM 10/14/2005, you wrote:
>So Tina,
>
>How do you like it so far?
>
>Gene

The 5D?  It's taking some getting used to.  It's so much lighter than 
the 1DMII that it's like a toy.  It's hard to take seriously!  I much 
prefer the way the focus points work in the 1DMII.  There are not as 
many in the 5D and the tiny wheel to control them is too tiny.  I 
like having the wide angle lenses actually show the whole wide angle, 
but it does show more of the slight fall-off of the wide-angle zoom 
Canon's that is cropped out in the 1:3 1DMII.  I haven't done enough 
experimenting with the Leica 19 to know if it has any flaws on the 
5D, but I'm going to do some more testing before I take it China, 
ditto with the Canon 24/1.4L.  The screen on the back of the camera 
is big!  More like the Digilux screen than the other Canon 
screens.  I don't like the battery which is a slightly improved 
version of the 10D battery but it still only seems to last about a 
day compared to the 1DMII which lasts a week or more and the battery 
loses its charge as it sits on the shelf, unlike the bigger 
battery.  I also don't like the fact that the Big ED - battery grip 
for the 10D - doesn't fit on the 5D.  They changed the position of 
the connectors just slightly so we'd have to buy a new one :-(  The 
5D makes a nice back-up camera for the 1DMII, though, and I'm glad I 
have it to take to China.

Tina

Tina Manley, ASMP
http://www.tinamanley.com 



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