I have had the canyon about a month now and I wondered if some of you
may be interested in my first thoughts and comparison with the E3
It is not built as well as the E-3 and shooting raw it fills cards up
very quick - I did have concerns that I would need to upgrade my
computer as aperture was bringing the images up in about 6 seconds which
is too long for me, however I deleted all previews and aperture has been
reindexing for a day or so and now they seem to take about 3 seconds -
4 seconds seem to be my personal limit. This is about the same time as
lightroom 3 which I thought very fast on first use and LR3 also offers
support for the sraw formats. Comparing output from both aperture and
lightroom it is hard to spot but the LR3 output is slightly more
saturated otherwise it seems identical.
I can't describe why - probably due to depth of field, but the images
look more like the ones I see from scanned film images. I don't have any
canyon lenses and have no plans to do so, I was fortunate to pick up a
35-80/2.8 and I can confirm that there is something special about this
lens which works well with the 5D2 as do my other OM lenses. I also like
the colours I am seeing better than the E-3 heresy I know and maybe its
down to the raw conversion but I don't have much free time to do more
testing.
I still pick up the E-3 if I am in a hurry and its raining but with the
manual lenses on the 5D2 I find I am getting less focus errors by doing
it manually and less incorrect exposures now I have settled on Aperture
priority mode. The 5D2 is already showing dust on the focusing screen
(not the sensor) whereas I have yet to see any on the E-3.
With everyone discussing the smaller cameras, it is possible I will sell
the E-3 gear and get something smaller, I would however miss the 7-14 so
maybe this won't happen ;-)
So in conclusion I like it, is it a huge leap forward over the E-3? -
well for my use not really but I do like being able to use my OM lenses
properly and for that job it does it better than the E-3.
IanW
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