What full frame Canon

[Carl911]

I am looking into the possibility of buying a full frame camera.
I currently use a Canon 40D so have been looking at the canon range so i can use some of my existing lens.
I like to take landscape, portrait & occasionally car action shots at the race track and had my eye on the 5D mk2, but is this the best camera for the job or would one of the other canon's suit me better?


Carl

[Dirt_Bike_Ryda]

you only really have the choice of a 5d, a 1d and a 1ds... so you need to work out how money you want to part with..

[nathanbarlow]

might want to look at trying to find a second hand 5d mk I - I dont think the mk II adds much (but than I havent read much about the 5D)

[OsmosisStudios]

Originally Posted by nathanbarlow

might want to look at trying to find a second hand 5d mk I - I dont think the mk II adds much (but than I havent read much about the 5D)

Clearly havent read much then: the mk2 is a considerable improvement.

[inkista]

Originally Posted by Dirt_Bike_Ryda

you only really have the choice of a 5d, a 1d and a 1ds... so you need to work out how money you want to part with..

Actually, choice of 5D, 5DII, 1Ds, 1DsII, and 1DsIII.

The 1D/1DII/1DIIN/1DIII/1DIV is a 1.3x crop camera, not a full frame.

The one lens you won't be able to use on a full frame Canon dSLR is the 10-22. EF-S lenses won't mount on Canon's 1-series cameras.

A full frame will be great for portraits and landscapes, but for fast action like the car on the track, the crop body cameras, like the 1D or the 7D are probably going to be a better tool, since they're optimized more for fast action/sports photography, rather than studio work, like the full-frames. Remember the full frames are at very high resolution, and shoving all the data through takes more time--it's slower to push through the buffer, and slower to write out to cards. You want a full frame camera for fast action photography, you may want to look on the Nikon side of the fence.

[Carl911]

Originally Posted by inkista

Actually, choice of 5D, 5DII, 1Ds, 1DsII, and 1DsIII.

The 1D/1DII/1DIIN/1DIII/1DIV is a 1.3x crop camera, not a full frame.

The one lens you won't be able to use on a full frame Canon dSLR is the 10-22. EF-S lenses won't mount on Canon's 1-series cameras.

A full frame will be great for portraits and landscapes, but for fast action like the car on the track, the crop body cameras, like the 1D or the 7D are probably going to be a better tool, since they're optimized more for fast action/sports photography, rather than studio work, like the full-frames. Remember the full frames are at very high resolution, and shoving all the data through takes more time--it's slower to push through the buffer, and slower to write out to cards. You want a full frame camera for fast action photography, you may want to look on the Nikon side of the fence.

Thanks for the info, I was aware of the 10-22 issue and was prepared to let that lens go and replace it with the 17-40 or dearer 16-35 on the full frame.
I was concerned about whether speed might be an issue seeing as if Im going to pay £2300 I want it to cover all my bases.
Will have to look at the enemy Nikon as well and weigh things up.

[inkista]

Don't think of Nikon as the enemy. Think of them as the market force that's helping push Canon to be even better. I seriously doubt the 7D's master in the pop-up flash, improved AF system, and optional gridlines in the viewfinder would have happened but for Nikon, just as Nikon would never have moved to full-frame or worked on high iso performance, or created lower priced models, if it weren't for Canon pwning them for so long. I like it better now that things are evened up.

At the pricepoint you're talking about, there's no huge superiority for full-frame in the Nikon lineup. The high framerate I was thinking of was the D3S, which is 9fps (full-frame, 11 in crop) which is probably twice your budget (but yes, it beats out the 1DsIII's 5fps handily). The D700 beats out the 5DMkII, but only at 5fps to 4fps. And the 5DMkII is roughly twice the resolution. Then again, the D700 is supposed to have a more accurate/sophisticated autofocus system, the 5DMkII's AF system is unchanged from the one in the 5D.

And if you like rectilinear ultrawides, the Nikkor 14-24 might be reason enough to swap systems all on its lonesome. It handily beats out the 16-35LII and the 14LII, and even the Zeiss Distagon 21. Then again, you could use it on a Canon with an adapter.