Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/06/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Funnily enough I could not wait to get a 5D but it showed me that this full frame idea was not such a big deal for me, not using super WA or high iso much! Frank On 30 Jun, 2009, at 22:22, Mark Rabiner wrote: > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information