That's not a knife. This is a knife.
by Volker Weber
Well, I could never justify spending this amount of money on a camera. That does not make it less interesting though.
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Canon suggest a retail price of 4600 Euro. That's really a lot!
The price of this camera is high, but it is the first fast digital SLR which can be used in stead of normal analogue film in most situations. For dark light it is even better than film (e.g. in concerts). See my fotos I made with this camera at:
http://foto.happyarts.de/album/rosa300504
and
http://foto.happyarts.de/album/wgt2004
Agreed. It is a wonderful camera. And I would immediately buy it if I were a) a professional photographer or b) would want to spend the next three months doing nothing but taking pictures. But that is not the case. :-)
@Markus:
Excellent pictures!
Indeed a wonderful camera, but also a very good photographer :-)
Good indepth test on dpreview.com, again ... :-)
The 10D does its job well. The 1D MkII is absolutely the superlative of a digital camera. If I was a full-time professional photographer, I'd consider buying it just because of the better autofocus, I think.
About the price issue: good glass is as much expensive. If you get the 24L/f1.4, 50/f1.4, 16-35L/f2.8, 28-70L/f2.8, 70-200L/f2.8 (which represents the "standard" lens set to cover all aspects of daily work) you'll spend as much as for the body. Taking shots with cheaper glass on the 1D MkII simply doesn't make sense, so what you need to calculate is also the price for the lenses.
I got me a 10D this year, made more than 15k shots with it. Good camera, some things could be better (i.e. AF), but the price difference to the 1D MkII is way too much.
Addendum: I'd like to see GPS coordinate recording in a camera for a mere 5000 bucks.
@Karsten
I tested the 10D before I byed the 1DmkII. The worst thing on 10D is the AF on low light conditions. I made 600 photos on one concert and had about 300 unsharp pictures. With my old EOS 3 and the EOS 1D I had about 50 unsharp ones. The noise in high ISO settings is also much higher on 10D than 1D, but ISO 1600 is about as good as ISO 800 for conventional films.
BTW: You can compare the pictures made with 10D and 1D (both on a ROSA concert, but not the same evening):
10D:
http://foto.happyarts.de/album/album27
1DmkII
http://foto.happyarts.de/album/rosa300504
EOS 3 with Fuji Superia 800
http://foto.happyarts.de/album/album28
About lenses: they are really important... I used 28-70/2.8L, 70-200/2.8 and some times the 50/1.4. Later I'll change my 28-70/2.8L to the new 24-70/2.8L. The 16-35/2.8/L is great, but heavy and expensiv and I don't want to change the lenses to much.
