Canon 5D doesn't have much of a camera for its weight. I would not recommend it instead of an amateur crop that is 3-4 generations fresher. Something lighter with live view, something nice to carry and use. Cameras from that era quite often have problems with autofocus. For people in this budget, it is also natural to look for old cheap EF lenses - and such lenses themselves have frequent AF problems. In the worst case, you can use a camera like 600d as a manual focus mirrorless camera. On 5D it is not even possible to accurately focus manually if all goes wrong. People in this budget are most likely beginners. Cameras like this, cameras from this era were my first DSLRs, and I'm not that cruel, I don't want newbies to go through the experiences that I went through. They have the opportunity to start their journey without a mirror that causes earthquakes, without these sticky sensors that become covered with dust in two weeks, with more or less reliable autofocus, at least in static conditions, and other useful and pleasant things.
Nikon D1, started the ball rolling, i went to New York to buy it and made a good living at horse shows with a campervan , 12v inverter and a printer, enabling me to print onsite in the middle of a field at a equestrian event, i was in demand all over UK .
I just went on a vintage camera binge. Canon, Olympus and Minolta. I know almost nothing about photography, but have a lifetime of contact with all sorts of mechanical items. I have to say the Canon FTb certainly seems well made and the lenses are well thought of. Any reason to choose an SRT over FTb?
My transition from film to digital was with a Konica Minolta Dynax 5D from a Minolta film camera. I bought a Sony SLT-A57 in 2014, then later a A77 then a A58. These are all A-Mount so all the lenses fit. I have Minolta, Tamron, Sigma and Sony lenses. They all still work perfectly. I mostly use the A77 for video but only use Sony lenses as the others are somewhat noisy when using AF. Solution is MF! These are all old now but produce perfectly acceptable results.
The Hasselblad SWC ..... it changed the way I could work. The Linhof Technikardan ...... it made large-format photography easier for the solo landscape and architectural photographer ........ as I know very, very well.
Totally agree with you. So, I kept-collected my GH1 with its 14-140mm (2009). Still working, not mint but almost. But battery was ... not too much (like GX9). I shall kept-collect my GX9. Friendly.
Got it when it first fame out and sold it for the D700. Tired of the 5D not having auto ISO is the 21st century: major con for me. Also the color rendition was simply how Canon programmed the color science. Very ,very easy to get the same color on other cameras like the D700 I had back then and the A9ii I have now. But really liked the feel of the 5D; especially the front dial by the shutter. I found the D700 to have similar image quality as the 5D if my memory serves.
Nice video. Just picked up the earlier Nikon F-501 on eBay for £2.99. Sold as faulty but as you know with these older battery operated cameras it's often just a bit of white vinegar that deals with the corrosion and it burst into life! Just waiting to get my first films back taken with it.
@@gideonliddiardphotography Mine are too long too. I am changing over now to a zero-logo or intro format. Am going to just jump in with the main point. I was thinking about peoples attention span ... commercials on YT are very short. I noticed this by looking at the analytics and how the drop off at 30 seconds is pretty bad in most of my 460+ videos. I am going to test my theory over the next 3 months and see if there is a significant change. Sorry to seem so critical, I enjoyed your video a lot. I've been heavily involved in photography and videography since 1960, so have owned a lot of hardware. I have just been doing testing on intros to see if getting right to the point improves views.
Hate to say it but probably the iPhone in sheer number of units from Apple, Samsung etc that came from it, Unless you go further back and look at the Ericson P series, the first smartphone. But if we are talking proper cameras the Canon 5D must be up there as would the Hasselblad H1 (leading to 400mb shots) and X2d a 100mb walk around camera with colour quality that no one else comes near to… Then there are the Leica M monochromes, yes niche, but probably the only digital one piece camera that gets to the basics of pure photography, especially if you have no screen. Then there is the Alpa TC, (or the more exalted ones) digital - with more Mps than you could ever require on the largest sensors we currently have, or film - even without batteries.
Gracias por su video!! Para mí la mejor cámara construida en los últimos 20 años es sin ninguna duda la Nikon Fm3A. Una verdadera joya.... Creo que es un poco cuestión de gustos. Jamás habrá otra camara para mí que reemplace a la Leíca M3.. es mi mejor cámara después de años y años de usarla.. Saludos desde México..!
Just bought one with kit lens for £32! I want the 14-45 lens rather than the body which I'll sell on. But I agree it is a very significant camera. In the previous century I used Minolta SRT, XE, XD, XG then in the 2000s Canon Powershot G2 and Konica Minolta 7D. These days Lumix mirrorless cameras with EVF are my favourite. My GX80 has a decent viewfinder, the G80's is as good as any film SLR I ever used (am familiar with Olympus, Pentax, Canon, Nikon film SLRs) and the Lumix GX8 possibly has absolutely the *best* viewfinder of any camera I've used except medium format roll film SLRs. And it's weatherproof too!
It's remarkably easy to do accidentally on the 5D, and given the longer write times of older cameras not uncommon. Which is why every other camera manufacturer designed a solution to it.
I disagree, The first mirrorless camera was the Epson R-D1 in 2004 with Lieca M mount lenses. 6.1MP was a game changer. For me, the Fujifilm XPro 1 made EDC a joy again.
How can a digital range finder, a type of camera that's never had a mirror box, remove something it's never had and become mirrorless? The RD1 also had no live view on its rear screen, as such, as good a camera as it is, it doesn't meet the USPs of mirrorless.
Digital photography became serious with the EOS350D and the 8mpx sensor. Finally when the same sensor was released in the 20D, built quality met the high Canon "pro" standards. It was in 2005
How many DSLRs are being developed and released Vs Mirrorless systems right now? Aside from Pentax it's zero, so I'd say a camera than started that change is pretty damn important (and all of this I said in the video).
Coming out of film, followed by a Canon G3x (with a battery life of about 30 shots for me), the Fuji s100fs was like 'geni in a bottle'. Still have 2 that work perfectly (one with 3/4 million images that died, triggered a panicked replacement, then was resurrected by my repair guy by giving the battery contacts a wipe). On shoots with my newer equipment, there's always an s100fs in my bag as a backup. 11mp but batched through LrC & Photo Ai, and they come back at 24mp hard to tell from my newest gear. Sports, extreme cold winter sports, weddings, events, and general commercial work, and it never let me or a client down. I respect that old workhorse.
Lumix? The camera that really made a difference and got people taking photos is the Nikon F, followed by the F2. I still have my F2, built in 1979. Another camera that rocked the photo world was the Canon AE1. And the camera that rocked my boat when I finally entered the digital world was the Sony a6000, a mini-Leica. There are many wonderful cameras that are fantastic, but it was the post-war Japan that really got things started. After the war was over, during the US occupation of Japan, as Japan's optical companies copied and improved on the Leica, servicemen bought the SLR is droves. It was a time when people had a love affair with their cameras and film. Like all beginnings, it was exciting. Digital is an extension of the film camera, and I am glad it happened. With Kodak basically gone for most of us, digital is a godsend.
The Contax TVS Digital. Digital cameras became fashion statements... I have the G2 which is better. One bonus is that old lenses can be used with appropriate adapters. The mount and lens/sensor gap allows for this without issues.
If you had titled the video "Why I think the G1 is the most important camera of the last 20 years" I would of been curious. I stopped watching after 1:16 and went to the comments to find out. The prospect of waiting god knows how long until you get to the point means you have lost this viewer. You could be a good guy, making good points, but you have fallen into the clickbait trap that a lot of people are fed up with.
Yes there are bargains out there for these and other early g series camera's. I just picked up a 14-42 lens on ebay for £75 to use on my g2 (£40) which is probably slightly over the odds for that lens but it had a working g3 attached to it. They are all great little starter cameras and very user friendly. Great video:)
The G-3 of 2011 was going tobe a grou ndbreaking camera-= but the factories that produced it were destroyed in the Tsunami. . i hink Fuji has picked up the ball and ran with it...
