No, I think your 5D2 focusing problems will be solved by a moderately
fast autofocus lens. If it's in darkness or near darkness the autofocus
assist light on the 580ex will deliver the goods. Give up manual focus
except in good light and with slower moving subjects.
Unlike the 5D the 5D2 does have a dust shaker ala E-thingies. But learn
to live with dust. It will show up eventually on anything. This is
my recommended method for inexpensive but effective cleaning.
<http://www.prime-junta.net/pont/How_to/a_Brush_Your_Sensor/a_Brush_Your_Sensor.html>
Click on the PDF link on the upper right for an easier to read and print
version.
Chuck Norcutt
SwissPace wrote:
> The honeymoon is over and I am wondering if I made a mistake, for the
> first time since using digital I have had dust specs on my last images,
> this may be due to not habitually switching the camera off so the sensor
> cleaning was not operating often enough - the E-3 sleeps and I need to
> flick the power switch which activates sensor cleaning. Ok thats not so
> bad but I have found out that I have also been expecting too much from
> high iso (which is still noisy even on the 5D2 at 6400) and it meant I
> bought a 580ex flash to help and also I am having trouble manually
> focussing on the kids - which means maybe I should have just bought an
> FL50 for the E-3 and a 50-200 instead of the 5D2.
>
> However I have still not had time to really play with it and get used to
> it so I am not giving up on it yet, I like the results from the OM glass
> on it especially seeing proper depth of field again and the colours are
> very nice, maybe now aperture allows raw and jpeg pair import I will
> reduce the disk space the images seem to eat up.
>
> One thing it has taught me is that I need to look more to myself than
> the equipment which is surely a good thing and it has taken me too long
> to realise.
>
> IanW
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