Goodbye Canon 5d mk III- I loved you, but need to move on!

[Dylan777]

Unfocused, you should repost that wonderful response on FM, DPR, and everywhere else the OP went trolling. Pure gold!

This is the only forum I participate in. But, at your request, I decided to register and repost in Fred Miranda and DPReview. Probably gets me banned, but oh well.

Will be well worth it though

 

[Don Haines]

:'( Goodbye my dear 5d mk III . You were my first "real" love. You were so quick and comfortable in my hands. I loved the way you felt. When we were together, we were "one in the same". You were the peanut butter to my jelly. Simply amazing and skilled in every aspect. Your resolution, dynamic range and AF were as real as it got. I even loved your previous model almost as much. You were my "King of the World."

I have decided its time to move on. We just don't see eye to eye anymore. I need more! You see, I have grown and you have remained static. You're not willing to change. You sit idly by while my new friend, Nikon, keeps growing. She will have upgraded quite a few times since you came to market. She knows that I need more and she is willing to give it me. She has more dynamic range now, a great AF system and, as you already know, more MP. She is willing to give me the resolution when I enlarge. You're not! And, she will feel better in my hand.

perhaps no monogamous relationship will satisfy you completely.... I recommend that you occasionally seek the services of a goPro

 

[9VIII]

Aww the DPR thread is gone...

 

[AvTvM]

Unfocused, you should repost that wonderful response on FM, DPR, and everywhere else the OP went trolling. Pure gold!

This is the only forum I participate in. But, at your request, I decided to register and repost in Fred Miranda and DPReview. Probably gets me banned, but oh well.

Really love your little essay. Extremely well written. Chapeau! 8)

 

[ME]

Great response, Unfocused. And to you 5dIII: You will be better off without that cheater that doesnt deserve you or know what to do with you. I have lusted after you for a long time, and have only dreamed of caressing your beautiful body. Just look into my eye and see how sincere I am. We can make beautiful photos together. Dump that troll now! You might have to share time with my 5dII, as I cant just coldly dump it. And also, do you have some money I can borrow?

 

[benperrin]

Very well written unfocused! It is one of the best responses I've seen for a long long time!

 

[Hill Benson]

"Mind you, it's all fun until someone loses an f-stop." ;D

 

[Aglet]

:'( Goodbye my dear 5d mk III . ..Don't let the door hit you in the A$$.

I hear ya, man.
I was married to her older half-sister, 5d2, and divorced her.
5d2 snored a lot and filled my nights and even my blue-sky-days with her infernal noise.
I even tried to seek shelter in the darker parts of town but the noise followed wherever I went.

I think those 5D girls sure looked voluptuous but mine was also hard for me to live with. I think they came from an unrefined family; I heard their mother was a Rebel and 5d2's father was a point-n-shoot who didn't stick around but a year or so. I don't know who planted the seed for 5d3.

While feeling a bit lonely for a pleasant and reliable companion i saw a mail-order ad for a new bride in the form of a petite d5100. When she arrived I discovered she didn't speak my language very well but we soon learned how to communicate and she rarely needed to be corrected. She is very well behaved and, while not terribly sophisticated, always tries hard and put out her best efforts. If she has a flaw it's maybe that one leg is a bit shorter than the other because whenever I line up a perfect horizon in her viewfinder the picture comes out a bit tilted... We learn to compensate.

I soon discover she has lots of interesting relatives and within a year I find I've sponsored 5 more of her family and much of their estate now reside with me and we all play together and have lots of fun. They were even very accepting of my fostering Pentax, Fuji and Olympus underdogs. A few elderly Canon family members remain as well as they're just not worth moving to another home and they still occasionally can do some useful chores.

 

[AtSea]

Let's see ONE.SINGLE shot taken with a d810, or any other camera for that matter, that could not have been achieved with a 5D III.

Just one.

 

[AtSea]

It's funny, though. I wrote a blog post addressing THIS VERY camera release and how it relates to gear freaks:

http://danielmedini.com/blurry-pictures-are-not-a-crime/

I wrote that on June 26, as if I could predict the tendency of nerds to "NEED" the newer, shinier, camera body.

 

[bardamu]

I guess he just didn't know how to "push the right buttons"

I must say, I' d be happy enough to catch her on the rebound if she's still single...

 

[bardamu]

:'( Goodbye my dear 5d mk III . ..Don't let the door hit you in the A$$.

I hear ya, man.
I was married to her older half-sister, 5d2, and divorced her.
5d2 snored a lot and filled my nights and even my blue-sky-days with her infernal noise.
I even tried to seek shelter in the darker parts of town but the noise followed wherever I went.

I think those 5D girls sure looked voluptuous but mine was also hard for me to live with. I think they came from an unrefined family; I heard their mother was a Rebel and 5d2's father was a point-n-shoot who didn't stick around but a year or so. I don't know who planted the seed for 5d3.

While feeling a bit lonely for a pleasant and reliable companion i saw a mail-order ad for a new bride in the form of a petite d5100. When she arrived I discovered she didn't speak my language very well but we soon learned how to communicate and she rarely needed to be corrected. She is very well behaved and, while not terribly sophisticated, always tries hard and put out her best efforts. If she has a flaw it's maybe that one leg is a bit shorter than the other because whenever I line up a perfect horizon in her viewfinder the picture comes out a bit tilted... We learn to compensate.

I soon discover she has lots of interesting relatives and within a year I find I've sponsored 5 more of her family and much of their estate now reside with me and we all play together and have lots of fun. They were even very accepting of my fostering Pentax, Fuji and Olympus underdogs. A few elderly Canon family members remain as well as they're just not worth moving to another home and they still occasionally can do some useful chores.

Dude, sounds like Nikon really has you by the ballhead.

 

[Orangutan]

:'( Goodbye my dear 5d mk III . ..Don't let the door hit you in the A$$.

I hear ya, man.
I was married to her older half-sister, 5d2, and divorced her.

Dude, sounds like Nikon really has you by the ballhead.

I'm not yet sure what Aglet's angle is: sometimes he seems like a troll, other times he just seems like a fanboi who would upgrade from an iPhone5 to the third production run of the iPhone5 because it had a shiny new serial#. It's also possible he's just one of those guys who finds it hard to see anything from a perspective other than his own. And apparently he didn't get the joke thrown-down by unfocused.

Aglet: of course everyone wants the best of all tech in a single, low-cost body. And for those who do exclusively slow-paced landscape and studio photography I hear the D8x0s are great tools. But just as it's legitimate to ask why the Canon's don't have the IQ of the Nikons, it's also legitimate to ask why the Nikons have crappy AF, bloated raw files, slow framerate and poor quality control.

Aglet wants us all to believe that a farmer is totally lame if he buys a pickup truck instead of Ferrari.

 

[Dylan777]

:'( Goodbye my dear 5d mk III . ..Don't let the door hit you in the A$$.

I hear ya, man.
I was married to her older half-sister, 5d2, and divorced her.
5d2 snored a lot and filled my nights and even my blue-sky-days with her infernal noise.
I even tried to seek shelter in the darker parts of town but the noise followed wherever I went.

I think those 5D girls sure looked voluptuous but mine was also hard for me to live with. I think they came from an unrefined family; I heard their mother was a Rebel and 5d2's father was a point-n-shoot who didn't stick around but a year or so. I don't know who planted the seed for 5d3.

While feeling a bit lonely for a pleasant and reliable companion i saw a mail-order ad for a new bride in the form of a petite d5100. When she arrived I discovered she didn't speak my language very well but we soon learned how to communicate and she rarely needed to be corrected. She is very well behaved and, while not terribly sophisticated, always tries hard and put out her best efforts. If she has a flaw it's maybe that one leg is a bit shorter than the other because whenever I line up a perfect horizon in her viewfinder the picture comes out a bit tilted... We learn to compensate.

I soon discover she has lots of interesting relatives and within a year I find I've sponsored 5 more of her family and much of their estate now reside with me and we all play together and have lots of fun. They were even very accepting of my fostering Pentax, Fuji and Olympus underdogs. A few elderly Canon family members remain as well as they're just not worth moving to another home and they still occasionally can do some useful chores.

 

[Aglet]

I'm not yet sure what Aglet's angle is:

here it's just dark humor in the form of satire.. for the sake of balance.
Hard to follow a good bit like unfocused's.

 

[Menace]

Very well written unfocused! It is one of the best responses I've seen for a long long time!

+1.

 

[Roo]

I'm not yet sure what Aglet's angle is:

here it's just dark humor in the form of satire.. for the sake of balance.
Hard to follow a good bit like unfocused's.

The op's original post was amusing and, ironically, unfocused's post was very focused and brilliantly witty while yours was unfocused and lacking any form of wit, subtle or otherwise. Sorry, but you come off as far too much like a try hard.

 

[sagittariansrock]

An anecdote, completely open to interpretation:
I was shooting the Statue of Liberty when a couple of girls came and asked me to take their photo in front of the statue. They handed me a D800E attached to a 24-70mm lens.
I found that the camera was in A mode, and the focus point selected was offset and to a corner. I am completely unfamiliar with the camera, so I asked them how would I change the focus point and which button do I focus with (meaning shutter press or back button). They weren't native English speakers and misunderstood my question- saying it was on 'Autofocus'. I decided not to pursue the issue further, half pressed, fine tuned with the manual focus override and took the shot.
However, it was way too overexposed. So I asked them if they can turn the exp. comp. down, and one of the girls (presumably the one owning the camera) said it was ok, she will fix it afterwards.
Now, this is not a photo I would have walked away with confidently if I was using my 5DII, and definitely not with my 5Dc. So either the girl knows she can pull down the highlights by that much on the D800E, or she doesn't have a clue. I am leaning towards the former...

 

[sagittariansrock]

Dear "J,"

I suppose I should not be surprised that you chose to announce the end of our relationship in such a public and cowardly way. You were never one for subtlety and discretion.

And, so typical of you to blame all the failures on me. As though you contributed nothing to the breakup. But, then, I guess since you contributed so little to the relationship, I should not be surprised.

The truth is, I've known for a long time this wasn't working. If I could have ended things myself, I would have. But as you know, for me this was an arranged marriage. You picked me and I had no say in the matter. For the honor of my family (and honor is something my culture values very highly) I could not leave you.

At first, your clumsy attempts to satisfy me were amusing and not without a certain boyish charm. But, honestly, it quickly became apparent that you were never going to improve. In fact, I soon realized that you actually thought you were good. I know this is hurtful to say, but since you are the one that began this public conversation, I think honesty is justified.

Never once were you able to bring me to my full potential. No, let me be more candid, never, ever did I come remotely close to achieving the heights I was intended for. You would fiddle with my dials and move my joystick, but it was so mechanical and uninspired that I could hardly bear it. Honestly, most of the time I wished you would just stick to the green box and let me do it myself.

And the trips...well, what can I say? Sure, I enjoyed them, but it was as though you thought that simply going someplace new would solve all our problems. All it did was make me long for the relationships that I saw others enjoying. How I wished that could have been us. But you...all you ever did was worry about whether someone else had a newer, prettier model hanging on his shoulder.

You were so obsessed with showing me off that you didn't see how many of your fellow travelers lovingly treated their lowly Rebels with respect and appreciation and how they were rewarded in ways that you and I could never achieve together.

Yes, I saw the world. But, really, I would have traded it in a instant for a quiet little town in the Midwest, with someone who understood me and what I was meant to do.

Now, dear D810, believe me, I wish you no ill. In fact, I actually feel sorry for you. I know people say you are nothing more than an overinflated mass of silicon, but I know better. We are both from established families and, like me, you have not had any say in this relationship.

I would like to wish you a long and happy relationship, but I suspect that won't be the case. In the end, you will be blamed for everything. Just remember this. It is not you...it's him.

Nice piece of work. What I like second best (to the witticisms) is that you criticized the unnecessary Nikon-bashing that went along with some of the responses to the OP's post (disclaimer: I have never owned a single Nikon item and nor do I plan to, but I am sure that they also make excellent products).

 

[Zv]

An anecdote, completely open to interpretation:
I was shooting the Statue of Liberty when a couple of girls came and asked me to take their photo in front of the statue. They handed me a D800E attached to a 24-70mm lens.
I found that the camera was in A mode, and the focus point selected was offset and to a corner. I am completely unfamiliar with the camera, so I asked them how would I change the focus point and which button do I focus with (meaning shutter press or back button). They weren't native English speakers and misunderstood my question- saying it was on 'Autofocus'. I decided not to pursue the issue further, half pressed, fine tuned with the manual focus override and took the shot.
However, it was way too overexposed. So I asked them if they can turn the exp. comp. down, and one of the girls (presumably the one owning the camera) said it was ok, she will fix it afterwards.
Now, this is not a photo I would have walked away with confidently if I was using my 5DII, and definitely not with my 5Dc. So either the girl knows she can pull down the highlights by that much on the D800E, or she doesn't have a clue. I am leaning towards the former...

What do you mean overexposed? That's impossible, don't you know it has 14 stops or DR!