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Disappointed but not 100% surprised
Reinforces my notion to buy what has been released vs waiting for vapor ware (or rumored future products)
Wow F1.8 with OS ? Just imagine what you could do with this at a wedding at a low light reception.Get lots of blurry and/or OOF shots?
With the sigma and OS, assuming you have a few stops of OS, you could easily be shooting at 1/30 ish providing the subject is stationary. That could easily be 2 stop of noise. I have both the 135 F2 and 200 F2 and with the 200 and IS you can easily shoot 1/30 or 1/50 all night longWhen are humans ever stationary enough to shoot at 1/30, especially at a wedding reception?
In fact if a company updated somebody's software without their consent even if it was released, they could be sued...Sony FTL
nikon seems to have people who are really interested in photography and deliver products that at least show some improvements.Are you forgetting how the D800 < D700?
You're under the utterly and completely clueless assumption that if you are a 5D2 owner, that the 5D3 is the next logical thing to buy.... as opposed to what? There is no logical next thing in the product line right now, short of a used D700.
Imagine being a 7D owner and then moving on to a 5D3. The 5D3 is a 5D2 and 7D combinedTwo wrongs don't make a right.
But you're arguing that anybody claimed that the 5D3 had any IQ improvement over the 5D2. Who claimed that?The specs and tests speak for themselves.
Did anybody on this forum claim thatGee, I dunno, let me go read every post ever made here.
or did I miss it? The 5D3 has no IQ improvement over the 5D2. Who cares??Those of us who have to work for a living and yet want wacky stuff like usable pictures of our kids.
Yep. The 50% faster frame rateI see a lot of "up to" 6 fps, not just 6 fps, so I wonder what the weasel words are hiding. I also read that auto-AF-select is even slower and less useful than the 5D2's.
better sealingI'm sure that both people shoot from inside waterfalls appreciate that.
better viewfinderHow is not being able to see what AF spot is selected "better"??
dual card slotsOne CF slot.
shutter lag reduced by halfWelcome, but not along worth rebuying a body.
better meteringPretty much everything has better metering than the 5D2. Having to routinely shoot with EC +1 is an embarrassment.
better ergonomicsVaguebook much?
including a multicontroller on the gripThe pictures I find of the 5D3 show no such thing. It'd be really awkward to hold if it did.
it does seem like Canon ignored everything but the AF. Right.
I, for one, would happily spend a few grand on a high MP, high frame rate, 5D X (or whatever it ends up being called) if it had reduced read noise and competitive DR (i.e. at least 13 stops).I'd do it even without the high frame rate, at least, higher than 5-6 fps. I don't even care about high MP, I just want usable ISO 6400 / 12800, freedom from mirror slap, and an AF system that isn't an embarrassment: the three biggest shortcomings of the 5D2. Hell, I don't even care if it's APS-C instead of FF; I just want it to be useful for shooting my son.
... without screwing up the light meter...... any worse than the 5D2's metering already is?
•24MP – an all new sensor with phase AF on chip and noticeably lower noise than the current 18MP.If only they'd leave it at no more than 18MP and give us usable ISO6400 and an AF system that works worth a damn, then I'd sell my 5D2 in a heartbeat. Friggin pixels. I don't need more, I need to shoot my kid indoors, where flash is rarely practical, and fast primes are a joke given that one has to stop down to at least f/5.6.
•1Dx/5D3 based AF system.
•10 FPS
It would be hilarious if it were true and the camera came out in the next six months.
Make it APS-C and wow......
If only.......
If you have the time to get properly exposed pictures in the cameraQuoteThere, fixed that for you.
Snobbery about nailing exposure in-camera is great for those who shoot rocks, trees, and patient adults in a studio. For the rest of us, it's just a waste of time and karma.