Canon EOS 5D MkII Named Greatest Camera (by Amateur Photgrapher)
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Are you? I wouldn't vote for my D7000, it's a great camera but there's many 'better' (and more expensive or less suited to me).
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So you dont think the majority of amatuer photogrpaher readers who could be bothered taking part in a survey are 5dII users then? I would guess they are myself.. but each to his own
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Polls like this one always remind me of a Daily Mirror poll in the 80's for best actor and actress....ever. Lesley Grantham beat Clint Eastwood into second place whilst Anita Dobson did the same with Meryl Streep.
Not a Bronica, Rollei, Hasselblad or Voigtlander in sight eh!
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Not a Bronica, Rollei, Hasselblad or Voigtlander in sight eh!
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I guess they are such specialist cameras, most people would have never touched one....
Mind you, how many people would have touched an M9.....
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Precisely the point Martin. How can one be qualified to vote for "The best of All Time" without having seen or touched 95% of the candidates.
The "Best Footballer of All Time".....he was probably dead before I was born.
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We can onlt really vote for the best camera of "our" time. even then that could be different for us all!
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Just typical lazy "journalism" by AP. they couldn't be arsed to come up with a list themselves, so they got the forum members to do it for them
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According to AP "Most photographers voted Nikon as their favourite brand" and then they voted the 5DII as their favourite camera? :shrug: 
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Well I voted for the Olympus Trip, my first camera and personally think it brought 35mm photography to the masses. Had the AF version which did everything automatically bar take the shot, still got it along with the clip on tele converter, weather proof too and went for ages on one lithium cell
Thinking back that really was a fine camera for the mid eighties and took some great slides with it, might even dig it out and see how it compares with today's efforts
Thinking back that really was a fine camera for the mid eighties and took some great slides with it, might even dig it out and see how it compares with today's efforts
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According to AP "Most photographers voted Nikon as their favourite brand" and then they voted the 5DII as their favourite camera? :shrug:
this is all bollo* it keeps their advertisers happy.
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So you dont think the majority of amatuer photogrpaher readers who could be bothered taking part in a survey are 5dII users then? I would guess they are myself.. but each to his own
Maybe not users but people who would like to have 5DII? Many people dream about full frame and think its magically better than other cameras.
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I've got an M9, wouldn't say it is the best camera ever made though.
I'd probably guess the dream of owning votes overtook the cameras they actually own. You don't run into many Leica M3 owners after all. It's just a bit of fluff to sell magazines really.
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I've got one and I love the photos that it produces, but it has faults and it certainly isn't the 'Greatest Camera of all time'.
Do you own or use one by the way?
I dont have a greatest camera of all time,been quite few i have used,and really enjoyed using
Pentax LX MX & Super A
Nikon F4 F5 FM2 D300 D700
Canon 20D
Olympus OM4 OM4TI
Have owed quite a few more than this list,but theses are the ones i remember or are now using
Pentax LX MX & Super A
Nikon F4 F5 FM2 D300 D700
Canon 20D
Olympus OM4 OM4TI
Have owed quite a few more than this list,but theses are the ones i remember or are now using
I've always looked at then ignored all these tech magazine polls where readers vote. All I can see are people either voting for their own, or for something that they read a good review for and maybe thinking "I want one". Few would have the experience of the range of products to be able to make an objective choice. Maybe readers are actually voting for their most wanted item.
As for this 5D II in question, I stayed with my 5D I because the II had the same crap [or somewhat unreliable] autofocus mechanism. So, apart from sensor cleaning, there wasn't much of an incentive to upgrade. Impressive as the photographic results are from a 5D I or II, I wouldn't vote for it as the best camera.
As for this 5D II in question, I stayed with my 5D I because the II had the same crap [or somewhat unreliable] autofocus mechanism. So, apart from sensor cleaning, there wasn't much of an incentive to upgrade. Impressive as the photographic results are from a 5D I or II, I wouldn't vote for it as the best camera.
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Perhaps it's just me, but I always try to distinguish a difference between "great" and "best". For me "best" simply refers to it's capability as a tool for photography, so current flagship cameras like Nikon's D3s or Canon's 1D are probably the best cameras for the vast majority of photo situations. I'd rank the 5DII in the top 10 too. But around the corner there will always be better cameras, so it's unfair to say that they are the best of all time. Whereas I think of "great" cameras as those which have had a significant impact on the field of photography and shaped the future in some way, perhaps pioneering something new and never before seen in the market place. (As an aside, personally I would rank the Canon 300D as greater than the 5DII as it was one of the first affordable digital SLRs and open the flood gates to people taking up photography as a hobby.)
This survery seems to ask for the greatest camera of the past hundred odd years, but some of the top 10 entries seem like many people were just voting for what they think are the best cameras.
This survery seems to ask for the greatest camera of the past hundred odd years, but some of the top 10 entries seem like many people were just voting for what they think are the best cameras.
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As it happens I've got one due to be delivered tomorrow (friday 4th). I decided a few weeks ago that I was going to get one and have been having a look around for a good priced one. It's coming with a 24-105 f4 L and it was ordered before the magazine came out.
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I thought my 5D mkII was crap. I found it to have inconsistent focus (mostly front but occasionally back focus) on every lens I owned. I probably just got a duffer, and only kept hold of it for a week or so before taking it back for a refund. The 40D I owned previously and the 7D I then "downgraded" to both had no such issues. Horses for courses......
I think it's almost impossible to state the perfect camera as it all depends on the user and there requirements... As for a cameras performance? Yes, there might be a short list of best performing/groundbreaking cameras over the years, but again these are only based on individual opinion... If you want my opinion, these polls are designed to sell cameras as they are all based on trends and people voting on there own cameras!
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I have used one, I borrowed a friends for a few days to see if I got on with it first. Not like I saw it in a magazine and thought I'd just spend a couple of grand for the sake of it, so it would be a Yes then but not for long.