Marc,
It's not worth $3,500.00 to this Canon shooter. I was waiting to purchase the next 5D iteration, but I'm going to pass on this one. Time will have to tell whether the metering and better AF actually work as advertised. Who cares about dual card slots and better LCD?
Greg
Wedding shooters care. Corporate and event shooters care. Portrait shooters care. Kid photographers care. Pet photographers care. That is a major market for this camera, and I'd say the 5D/5D-II is the most used camera for these applications in the history of that industry segment. Reaction on the DWF (one of the world's largest Wedding/Portrait Photographer's sites) is looking quite positive ...lots of comments like "the perfect wedding camera". Jeff Ascough, one of the top wedding shooters in the world was a beta tester, and has written
and illustrated a blog touting that the camera lives up to the hype. I know him, and if he says so, it is usually on the money.
Whether Canon have mis-priced this camera is TBD. Since they are devoting two factories to production, they seem to have pre-deterimned demand ... if that is a mis-calculation, it will be revealed in the coming year.
BTW, the same caveats can be said about the Nikon D800 ... time will tell whether those features reach up to the promise that the marking touts. Wedding shooters are far less impressed with the D800 so far.
I do not have a horse in this race ... but if I did, my application driven money would go to Canon ... a 1DX and a 5D-III with some f/1.2 lenses.
However, my pair of Sony A900s are more than enough. So I will remain just a casual observer of the 100 year Canon/Nikon war :watch:
-Marc