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Canon EOS 5D
Canon EOS 5D
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Gedeon Herschberg (gedeon) 1 pts
September 11, 2008 3:18 AM
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5D or 50D

The scenario is this:
I have a canon 400D
I have Sigma 18-200 ,Tamron 28-300 stabilised and 2 canon L lenses 17-40 and 70-200 both L
I am trying to decide a future with either the 5D which has come down to my budget or the 50D.
I would like to do low light photography at higher ISO's such as 1600 and am about to travel.
I dislike changing lenses unless i had to.
In my shoes would you go for the old technology full ram or the new APS?, and why?

Gid
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Aditya D (Adhere) 7462 pts
September 14, 2008 11:55 AM
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The high and low ISO capabilities of the 50D are very good, and should be at least slightly better than that of the 5D, so you should get better low and even bright light pictures (but by how much is really hard to tell because no one has really used the 50D yet). Furthermore, the new 50D technology does have light correction, which should help for overexposure and underexposure (bright vs dark pictures). The problem with the 50D is that it is not FF (full frame), and just because of this I would go with the 5D over the 50D. The sensor in the 5D is much better because its full frame, so you'll probably actually get higher overall quality pictures from the 5D. If you could, I would wait for the 5D successors to come out and get one of those. If you can't wait, go with the 5D.
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Alan Schamber (alanschamber) 659 pts
September 14, 2008 2:36 PM
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Sell everything and buy a point and shoot!!!...

hahahahahaha


Well... actually, I'd tell you not to stick with Canon until you see what will they get into the market. Why? Simply because for a couple of more dollars, you are getting a far better camera nowadays... like the Nikon D700. If you cannot wait... buy a 50D, because it's just new stuff... so, you can sell it in a couple of months with very little money wasted, and then you can decide what to do in the future: stick with Canon, and buy 5D sucessor... or just sell everything and buy the Nikon D700.

Alan.
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Aditya D (Adhere) 7462 pts
September 14, 2008 3:11 PM
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Newer does not necessarily mean better... putting all bias aside, the 5D for the price is an incredible camera, and I don't know how many other FF you're going to get for around that price anymore anyway. The 5D has a loyal bunch of supporters, because as most say, once you go 5D you will never want or need another camera again. The D700 is basically the D300 with FF, but the 5D produces better sharpness, contrast, and color when compared to images from the D300, well at least in my opinion. You can't really compare the 50D and the 5D because the 5D is frankly way out of the 50Ds league. If you have existing lenses for Canon, especially, buy the 5D, don't go and sell everything and buy a D700, you'll take a huge loss on all of your equipment and wind up with half of what you had originally. We can go back and forth on the D700 vs 5D argument, but just search for images on the net of each and see which you like better. Also hold each and see which feels better. Also, check this article out: http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/d3-d700-5d.htm . It's from a user that has used all of the cameras and lists the various advantages, and disadvantages of each of the cameras.
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Gedeon Herschberg (gedeon) 1 pts
September 14, 2008 8:16 PM
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Thank you all you contributors. The best bunch of contributors in a short time that I experienced in forums. Although no answer is dogmatically correct and it comes to individual choice ,the discussion helps in choosing and points are mentioned which may be otherwise overlooked. All comments even the not so helpful ones are appreciated by me.

Gedeon Herschberg
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