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I'm still rocking a Canon 5D Mark II. About 15 years old. It has been to Canon service twice to have its shutter replaced. Wears out around 150K uses. With

I'm still rocking a Canon 5D Mark II. About 15 years old. It has been to Canon service twice to have its shutter replaced. Wears out around 150K uses. With my 24-70mm and 100-200mm L series glass, I think I'm good forever.

stinos 4y ago
I think I'm good forever. I feel the same. Like: until USB of CF cards are phased out. I 'only' have a 40D, roughly same age, plus L lenses, always wanted a 5D or similar, but I just cannot honestly justify the cost beyond 'I want more' when seeing what picture quality I can get out of the current setup.
ip26 4y ago
The glass is a key. I usually can't beat my iphone with bargain glass, but with wide aperture L series glass I trounce the phone handily. Subject matter is another factor. A pretty view never runs away, and adults hold still for a picture, yet by contrast children & sports aren't going to wait for the phone to focus.
- trap_goes_hot 4y ago
  For me, my phone can cover almost most shooting situations. I think the areas where dedicated cameras can still handily trounce phones are low-light scenes (proper astro, shooting night events.. like sporting events or other parties with dim/poor lighting), sports/action/wildlife, studio photography with strobes, and extreme macro (4x, 10x objectives mated to a dedicated sensor). I use my phone's camera almost every day for just documenting shit, like receipts, business cards or when I am disassembling something, or other random projects. I love the geo-tagging of photos, along with a date based bucketing and that allows me to easily go back and look shit up.
trap_goes_hot 4y ago
For me the benefits of getting newer gear has been about efficiency, not necessarily picture quality. Silent shooting w/ mirrorless cameras and electronic shutter helps a with wildlife because you can be more stealthy and not have the shutter noise distract a bird or deer or skittish animals. Advanced mirror-less cameras have a level of accuracy to the focusing that was not possible with previous systems. This allows you to rattle off picture after picture with perfect sharpness (5, 10, 15, 20 or even 30 frames-per-second bursts) - reducing time to redo shots - especially with kids who move a lot, or action shots where there is a perfect frame and sometimes with older tech, you have a couple of in-focus shots, and then a missed-focus shot. Modern high-megapixel sensors coupled with high-quality glass allows you to crop without loosing much detail. I can use a 24 or a 35mm lens and with a 50 mega-pixel sensor, I can crop to the same field-of-view as a 50mm/75mm lens and still get a ton of detail. Modern coatings in lenses eliminate internal reflections, allowing you to shoot into the sun without a huge drop in contrast (very common with older lenses, even L series).
rr888 4y ago
5D is such a classic, I'm jealous because I couldn't afford it the last time I bought a camera. Now with mirrorless it isn't so clear which one to get. Full frame glass is so big and heavy, but anything else feels like a compromise.

stinos 4y ago

I think I'm good forever. I feel the same. Like: until USB of CF cards are phased out. I 'only' have a 40D, roughly same age, plus L lenses, always wanted a 5D or similar, but I just cannot honestly justify the cost beyond 'I want more' when seeing what picture quality I can get out of the current setup.

ip26 4y ago

The glass is a key. I usually can't beat my iphone with bargain glass, but with wide aperture L series glass I trounce the phone handily. Subject matter is another factor. A pretty view never runs away, and adults hold still for a picture, yet by contrast children & sports aren't going to wait for the phone to focus.

trap_goes_hot 4y ago
For me, my phone can cover almost most shooting situations. I think the areas where dedicated cameras can still handily trounce phones are low-light scenes (proper astro, shooting night events.. like sporting events or other parties with dim/poor lighting), sports/action/wildlife, studio photography with strobes, and extreme macro (4x, 10x objectives mated to a dedicated sensor). I use my phone's camera almost every day for just documenting shit, like receipts, business cards or when I am disassembling something, or other random projects. I love the geo-tagging of photos, along with a date based bucketing and that allows me to easily go back and look shit up.

trap_goes_hot 4y ago

For me the benefits of getting newer gear has been about efficiency, not necessarily picture quality. Silent shooting w/ mirrorless cameras and electronic shutter helps a with wildlife because you can be more stealthy and not have the shutter noise distract a bird or deer or skittish animals. Advanced mirror-less cameras have a level of accuracy to the focusing that was not possible with previous systems. This allows you to rattle off picture after picture with perfect sharpness (5, 10, 15, 20 or even 30 frames-per-second bursts) - reducing time to redo shots - especially with kids who move a lot, or action shots where there is a perfect frame and sometimes with older tech, you have a couple of in-focus shots, and then a missed-focus shot. Modern high-megapixel sensors coupled with high-quality glass allows you to crop without loosing much detail. I can use a 24 or a 35mm lens and with a 50 mega-pixel sensor, I can crop to the same field-of-view as a 50mm/75mm lens and still get a ton of detail. Modern coatings in lenses eliminate internal reflections, allowing you to shoot into the sun without a huge drop in contrast (very common with older lenses, even L series).

rr888 4y ago

5D is such a classic, I'm jealous because I couldn't afford it the last time I bought a camera. Now with mirrorless it isn't so clear which one to get. Full frame glass is so big and heavy, but anything else feels like a compromise.