20d vs 5d
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- Laurent
Hey got a 20d since 20.08.05. Is it worth it swapping it for the new 5d? Bought it for £1100. I know the 5d is £3000. Would it be easy to get a good price back for the 20d?
- mrdobolina0
I recommend this one:
- Peter0
20d is a great camera.
Do you consider yourself a proffessional photographer that needs to work with a £3000 worth camera? Are the extra additions and upgrades really essential for the kind of photos you take? If so I'd say go for it.
Otherwise if you can live with "just" an excellent camera, the 20d, I'd say save your dough.
- PIXELRANGER0
Well unless you're using your photos to print out posters I'd say keep the 20D. The 5d has a slower buffer and burst speed so you can actually take more pics in a second with the 20 than the 5. Not really a deciding feature I know but just making a point that although it is a 12MP camera there are things about it which aren't as good as on the 20D.
Personally save your $$$ unless you're doing posters or something crazy like that. Most stock photography resources looking for stock photographers require a 1D anyway so it isn't like you'd be able to sell any pics you took unless it was to a smaller resource/vendor.
- thismanslife0
Nobody's mentioned the big advantage of the 5D...
Full-frame (35 mm sized) sensor.
All your lenses are no longer "cropped". Hell yes.
- ********0
although that cropping may have some upside at times, less aberrations towards outer edge of lenses? yes? no?
- ********0
D5ive
- jevad0
hahahha
- ********0
although that cropping may have some upside at times, less aberrations towards outer edge of lenses? yes? no?
Rand
(Sep 5 05, 06:35)true dat.
but only if you got cheap lenses though. the cropping is a waste if you had already bought state of the art lenses!
- PIXELRANGER0
For someone like me who already has L quality lenses covering 15mm all the way up to 400mm the only advantage I would get with the full-frame is with my wide angle. Definitely something I would enjoy but not sure if Im gonna dump an extra 2k into something at this point.
- ********0
even great lenses can exhibit distortions and vignetting near edges, yes? no?
- ********0
all lenses do, Rand.
but the better and more expensive the lense, the less vignetting and abberation.
- ********0
as you may be able to tell, I'm trying to justify not having a full frame chip
- thismanslife0
Haha, don't worry about it, pretty much everyone else is in the same boat. I recently got a 20D and wish I had that full frame action going on.... but, the price is toooo steep (at the moment) to justify it.
- ********0
well if you want to use your wide angle to the max, especially qualitywise, i say: go full frame!
- ********0
and I like the 1.5 multiplier on long lenses