that didn't take long
Mar. 4th, 2007 08:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
misterxI decided to sell my Canon 20d and didn't even get a chance to post it on LJ or Ebay before it sold. I mean, go me and yay and all that, but yeesh. :)
And no, I'm not quitting photography. I upgraded to a 5d. I actually did it a few weeks ago, but I wanted to wait a bit to announce it. For me, switching to a new camera is an initial thrill, followed by a short depression caused by not being able to produce effectively. Switching cameras means that you have to take a lot of the judgment and "feel" you have for your tools and toss it out the window. Suddenly you're several steps back. And while it's exciting to learn, it also bothers me losing some of the instinct I've built up. So, I wanted to wait for my equilibrium to adjust, so I could be properly excited when I told everybody.
And let me tell you, it rocks. :) It's the same layout as the 20d, but so different too. The shutter sound is more dampened, quiet and precise. The viewfinder is brighter. I have true spot metering! There are fifteen ISO choices instead of six. There are 50% more pixels, and less noise. It's more refined in general. But perhaps the biggest change is the full frame sensor. Removing the 1.6 crop factor associated with the 20d's smaller sensor makes all my lenses their true length. At 17mm, my 17-40 looks like a fisheye to me.
Anyway, it's good stuff. The lens length changes are taking some getting used to, and may require me to shift my lens mix around a bit, but I'm not complaining.
Here, have some wide angle goodness:
And no, I'm not quitting photography. I upgraded to a 5d. I actually did it a few weeks ago, but I wanted to wait a bit to announce it. For me, switching to a new camera is an initial thrill, followed by a short depression caused by not being able to produce effectively. Switching cameras means that you have to take a lot of the judgment and "feel" you have for your tools and toss it out the window. Suddenly you're several steps back. And while it's exciting to learn, it also bothers me losing some of the instinct I've built up. So, I wanted to wait for my equilibrium to adjust, so I could be properly excited when I told everybody.
And let me tell you, it rocks. :) It's the same layout as the 20d, but so different too. The shutter sound is more dampened, quiet and precise. The viewfinder is brighter. I have true spot metering! There are fifteen ISO choices instead of six. There are 50% more pixels, and less noise. It's more refined in general. But perhaps the biggest change is the full frame sensor. Removing the 1.6 crop factor associated with the 20d's smaller sensor makes all my lenses their true length. At 17mm, my 17-40 looks like a fisheye to me.
Anyway, it's good stuff. The lens length changes are taking some getting used to, and may require me to shift my lens mix around a bit, but I'm not complaining.
Here, have some wide angle goodness: