2nd Body Choices!

[Fast Glass]

Don't give up on Canon just yet to go over to the *dark side*.

Not quite yet, but it's temping!

that by this time next year, there will be a 5D Mk III

Sorry, I have been waiting for a year without a camera body.I don't want to wait another year!

But it's only got 12 megapixels and it's pretty nice to have more when post processing or cropping.

Yes indeed, but I was looking at the 1D III and it has only 10mp. Even less than the D700. I really don't like 1.6 crop cameras so the 7D is not even in the picture.1.3 is as small asI will go.I shot some film and love the DOF of 35mm and how all my lenses are sharper.

Also, do you REALLY need that marginally better high ISO?

No, but it is a plus since I shoot a lot of high ISO pictures simply because my subjects are moving alot.

the 7D sensor is a generation newer than the 5D Mk II and manages eke out pretty decent performance out of much smaller pixels.

Yes, but the 7D has not improved drastically per pixel image quallity. If you were to crop the 5D II and then downrez the 7D to the same resolution you will notice slightly better noise from the 7D, but not adrastic differance.

Those crops were taken in lighting conditions not optimized for the 7D and at higher ISO's which you would not normally use outdoors.

I know what you mean. If the white balance is off by a significant degree then the noise will be worst. But Bryan's crops are taken with 5200k daylight balance studio lighting, there should be no significant differance in real daylight.


If you take a APS-C sensor and a 35mm sensor with the same technology you will automatically be a little over a stop worst with the smaller sensor.


Build quality is also a factor for me, I won't trade IQ for it but I would pay more for it.


John.