photoSmart42 wrote:
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wide angle cityscape/landscape,
macro using the MP-E 65 lens
Am I crazy?
Hi Dragos,
There is too little information in your post for a safe diagnosis so I'll just assume you aren't crazy.
The reasons for investing in a 5DMkII aren't really good. There must be something else, no?
I have been switching back and forth (APS-C, Olympus 4/3 -> 5D -> G1 -> 5DMkII -> G1). The last switch wasn't a switch really. I kept the G1 and bought a 5DMkII planning to use them both where the 5DMkII was aimed for a documentary project. In reality I used the 5DMkII for everything including some traveling. After having thought about it, very carefully this time, I sold the 5DMkII and now I use one system only.
What I miss from the 5DMkII is the lower noise, the robust raw files being able to take some PP, the details for large prints and the DOF control. Nothing else. Makros and cityscapes are easily done with the µ4/3 system, and for the most of the time probably better done as well.
However, if you have found you need (and don't have the time or the motif for the workarounds) lower noise, more robust raw files or the increased DOF control there is no other way to go but getting yourself a bigger sensor.
Lol, the grass is always greener somewhere else.... When I used the 5DMkII I missed the G1 viewfinder and screen. Now I miss other things.... What I really would like to have is a FF LIVE camera.
I have settled for the workarounds. Sometimes I take several images and stitch them together, sometimes I have to wait for better light. Some images I take could have been better with the bigger camera. On the other hand I have a complete system in my satchel bag. I get images that wouldn't have been that easy to take with the 5D and I don't worry a lot about my equipment as it can be replaced without shelling out a fortune once again.
If you want opinions you can have mine: save yourself time and money and get a Lumix G 7-14 zoom and then locate an Olympus Zuiko 20/2 Macro lens for those extreme macros (4:1 - 13:1 magnifying). That is unless your desire for the 5DMkII isn't an irrational one - then you should get one and try it out.
Good luck with your decision!
/Jonas