Enjoying my "new" 5D Mark 3

[ctitanic]

Recently I was tented to check DSLR low prices and found a 5D Mark III with less than 20000 shots. I probably do not have to say that I pulled the trigger. Oh boy, in the last 3 weeks my R7 is seating in my desk collecting dust.

https://flic.kr/p/2pLBf75

https://flic.kr/p/2pLBfjj

https://flic.kr/p/2pLq7F3

No Eye Autofocus, No tracking, less AF points and yet, the results are impressive. So impressive that I'm not using the R7 and I do not miss it.

 

[miuzi]

What do you like so much about it? I've never owned a 5D (or any Canon DSLR) but I've handled one a few times, and it feels so good in the hand, just lovely ergonomics. I find that's a consistent strength of Canon's design, their bodies just feel good to hold, and the 5D is the peak of that in my experience.

 

[ctitanic]

What do you like so much about it? I've never owned a 5D (or any Canon DSLR) but I've handled one a few times, and it feels so good in the hand, just lovely ergonomics. I find that's a consistent strength of Canon's design, their bodies just feel good to hold, and the 5D is the peak of that in my experience.

1- Image quality, it's a full frame and images are less noisy than those from the R7, of course, you can get this from any other R full frame (may be). Still, the colors coming from this camera are really good.
2- AF. The AF on this camera is right on the spot. Even for BIF. May be I trusted too much the Eye AF in the R7 and in the 5D I'm moving the Focus point right to the eye of the subject and the result is a sharp eye all time. Overall, I'm feeling that all those AI features, like human detection, animal detection, etc, are not that good, I feel like the AF in the R7 goes crazy trying to "please you" and in that hunting around it fails sometimes. I have set in my R7 one of the back buttons to switch to a single point AF without any detection or tracking features and I consistently get sharp pictures when I use that button. In the 5D those features are not there and I'm consistently get sharp pictures.
3- Like you mentioned the 5D feels good in your hands.

Here other examples of my 5D pictures:

https://flic.kr/p/2pKenwD

https://flic.kr/p/2pK8LjD

https://flic.kr/p/2pGrNK7

https://flic.kr/p/2pFhkwM

https://flic.kr/p/2pFasBQ