So, I think the other blogs do not update it anymore. Even I have trouble with this, let alone having two.
Saturday morning I got up at 6 (will have been eight years that I did not wake up so early on Saturday), I took a Eurostar and went to Milan. There was Photo 2009: a series of initiatives sponsored by Canon, which primarily related to photography, but also something video. So there were several interesting things to see: more than a few shows, there were seminars, workshops, educational lectures, readings of portfolio and other things. Among them, a space - Info Point - dedicated to test equipment Canon (practically all the available catalog of SLRs and objectives, even the 800mm) and a room where every two hours was carried out by a technical lesson a photographer and field trials of shooting photos. Leaving a document you could try all the equipment you wanted to just insert your memory card to the camera body and so chose to shoot.
Nell'Info Point, as I said, you could try the whole park and optical equipment. Not I could not take advantage, so I tried it on my old 350D the following optics:
Of the three, what impressed me most was the first: a special stabilizer allowed me to shoot handheld at 1 / 50 of a second without any problems. Extraordinary. And then the optical quality is really unparalleled. The price, however, could be a problem: it is about 1000 € (1200 € list).
Then I could try the new EOS 1D Mark IV, which was launched a few weeks ago but not yet for sale. The price should be around € 4500/5000 and unfortunately did not allow me to insert my card. The goal was a front EF 24-105mm f / 4 L IS USM . This car is sensational because it is the top of the range for the burst: in fact you can take 10 pictures per second at maximum quality. A true machine gun. Incredible feeling to have it in my hand and feel this monster shoot wildly. In any case also has a new AF system, I think with 45 points of focus.
Then I moved to the shooting. I was planning to give me a 1Ds Mark III (for the record, € 8000 body only) or alternatively a 5D Mark II. Unfortunately they did not have available, so I opted for the new 7D (which is still € 1800) with a 24-105mm (as before). However, after a few shots, this lens is not particularly impressed me (and that we are about 1000 €) and I changed with my favorite: the 100mm f/2.8L Macro (as before). Even then I knew that would come a model, then a nice drive with a decent opening was the one for me. In summary, when taking the picture I had about 3000 € for the hands of stuff. Fortunately I have not fallen at all.
The impression I got the 7D (APS-C from 18 megapixels) is an extremely valid. Gust speed (we are about 8 frames per second), extremely precise AF (AF is a new system that will mount all the other EOS in the future), and robust construction, the thing that impressed me the most, impressive ease of use. Of course, someone like me, accustomed to the commands of the simple-350D, it took a bit 'to figure out how to adjust the basic settings. But once you understand this, all the most important buttons are on hand and do not even need to take your eye from the viewfinder to change shooting settings.
hand, so the sensor pixel density (the total size sensor are the same as my 8-megapixel CMOS), demand a higher quality of the lenses. The defects such as chromatic aberrations, are amplified in that they take many more pixels and therefore are more visible in the photos. That's why we recommend the use of L-series lens for this kind of machines.
Another fault is that of file sizes: a 2 GB card, there are less than 80 photos. RAW files at maximum size (14 bit) occupy approximately 22/23 MB each. So much space and uses many cards (cards or large capacity).
But the large file size baked 7D are justified by the quality high resolution allows you to crop your photos with virtually no loss of detail. In addition, the dual DIGIC 4 processor means that the noise content is strictly up to ISO 1600, which is no small task. I used the sensitivity between ISO 400 and ISO 640 and I must say that the cleaning of files is extraordinary, not as I would expect from a sensor so dense.
In the end, I think the 7D - criticatissima do not know why - it is really a great machine. A decisive step forward in the technology used (if you go to see the technical specifications here is a list that never ends) at a competitive price, given that it can be a good offer take home for € 1600.
However, if I had to choose a DSLR today, and I had enough budget, I'd without a doubt the 5D Mark II is a full-frame (the sensor corresponds to 35mm film) 21 megapixel, but the larger size of the sensor ensures a sufficiently low density that they can be safely used up to ISO 3200. The outfit that I would I do? Give me at least € 10 000 and come home with:
EF 100mm f/2.8 L IS USM Macro
and maybe even a nice cecentrabile as the TS-E 17mm f / 4 L that never fails.
But alas, all this is and will remain a dream.
Here are the photos.
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