i thought i would see a happy thread, with a very happy topic title like this.

but it seems you are not happy

Should have bought a Nikon.




Haha... Had to say it.

Allow me to say something guys:

Here I see much discussions on technology (sometimes I'm in ofc), but I started shooting with film, manual aperture, manual focus, many pics lost for a thousand reasons.

Now we are lucky, with my old Contax and films 800 ISO were a rarity, 400 good but a lot of grain, so now we have things like 5DII and we are complaining? AF is slow? Try to focus with hands and than test it again

Allow me to give an advice, sometimes, turn AF off, put a prime, go out and start thinking in original compositions. Zooms are making us lazy pigs. No creativity but with powerful instruments.

Every one should have a manual lens here. I is a good school.

Start loving your gear!

This post was edited by bialator on Nov 20 2010 12:59pm

I like shooting with my manual film stuff more so than my digital and auto stuff...

A small upgrade to the AF system would be a nice touch. The AF on this 5DII reminds me of my first DSLR (Xsi)'s AF performance.

As for assist points, i have them disabled in custom functions.. I like manual control and know where i focus.

I think i'm just over-reacting. Just wanting a little more for the price i paid, but make no mistake... The IQ and ISO performance definitely blew me away.



Lolol. Don't tempt me to go to teh dark side.



I'm a nerd at heart, anyone who glanced in my profile will know it. I guess i'm just taking tech for granted, making thing easier for us. I never had any experience with film so i didn't know how it was like.

Again like i stated before, i paid alot more for the 5DII over my 50D and just had a "higher" expectation of things.

I'm sure if i never used the 7D or the 50D before, i wouldn't be complaining at all.

Oh and P.S- In case you haven't notice, my whole current lineup is primes (except for my 100-400L telephoto) :P.

This post was edited by Eek on Nov 20 2010 01:35pm

There is no way of not knowing, you are saying it to the world in your signature

Anyway I agree that you paid much and you deserve. But probably the image quality is the reward!

assist points doesent cause the focus go around uncontrollable, assist points are these invisible focus points near the main point that search things to focus on(by looking at a contrast difference between the assist point and the main point) when the main point fails to find a point to focus on. but if you know how the main point is able to focus, you can aim the main focus point on things near it where the assist points might be able to focus on. its just that sometimes(for example when shooting singer in a concert with low f-number and tight crop) the af point might aim at the microphone instead of the singers face if there isnt enough light exactly where the main focus point is. if the assist point is turned off, you still wont be able to focus on the singers face and you need to manual focus. when the focus isnt that critical or when the main focus point and assist point are at the same length(like shooting full body portrait in low light) that assist point doesent cause miss focus and it can help quite alot.

Ahh i see. Maybe i should go back and enable it then.

I'm lazy, I like shooting my F100 far more than my F.

O_o

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/165828-USA/Nikon_1796_F100_35mm_SLR_Camera.html

So expensive for a film body.