Buy a Canon 5D Mark II
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I used to shoot Canon 5D mark II, switched to Nikon due to the focus issues... and my ecosystem of friends all shooting nikon, so I could borrow lenses, backup bodies,etc...
for my bread and butter, I shoot mostly weddings and corporate events / conventions..... the AF for the Canon 5D II was as odd as was said above, the central focus point worked, the others were dodgy... I missed a number of images doing the focus recompose dance. It wasn't evil, but just a bit frustrating.... Strangely, I used to shot with a 5 D mark I, and it's AF seemed to be better than the 5D mark II, but maybe I was spoiled by borrowing a 50D, whose AF was far better than the 5D....
Also note that the 70-200 F2.8 USM-IS canon lens, while amazing, was likely to backfocus OR frontfocus on the 5D mark II I was using if I shot it at F2.8 at 10 feet, my preferred way of working for those amazing people photos.... argh! I calibrated it, but it seemed to be more unpredictable than I'd like.... of course, if I shot F5.6, it was fine, but that's not why you get that lens!
Sometimes, I'd shoot 3 shots in a row, 10 feet af F2.8, the second or last one was often perfect focus, the other two slightly off....
If I'm shooting in a controlled set, like an ad shoot, a Canon 5D mark II has great AF, kind of like the Hassleblad HD40, and... uh... kind of like a 90's old-school EOS-1 or Nikon F4, i.e. one AF point in the middle works great....that's ok when you can direct everything and ask people to do stuff over and over till the image looks great on the tethered monitor.... but in my experience, not so great for weddings and conferences....