Good Bye Canon~

[usccharles]

i just sold all my canon gear to make room for more lenses for my M8. 🙁

i've been a canon guy ever since i started photography, then i started to dabble alittle with film rangefinders, and after the M8 came in my doorstep, i've not touched the 5D once.

sold most of my canon lenses a few weeks back to buy some m-mount lenses and decided to just hold on to the 5D and all my Macro gear. then it dawned on me, better to sell and buy some lenses i will actually use regularly than to hold on to depreciating machinary that i will only touch not too often.

all gone. i did the right thing, but i can't believe how sad i feel to see all my good Canon memories go.

i've pretty much sold everything now. all i have are my R6.2, Hexar, Rollei 35, and the M8. all gone. heehee, but i now have new lenses for my M8 instead~ 😀

 

[Carzee]

Well done. A change is as good as a holiday.

When I sell off gear and buy something new I tend to get a few unforgetable shots during the initial learning period.

Probably applies to us all.

 

[naos]

Hey Buddy! I did the same thing too. After I sold all my Canon gear, I havn't looked back.

 

[TS ISAAC]

Small heavy objects...they are often a good thing...you wont regret your decision.

 

[Bike Tourist]

I did about the same thing as you, also involving a 5D and some "L" lenses. In my case, I couldn't get film images accepted by stock agencies. I bought a little Sony A100 and some nice old Minolta lenses. Not as formidable as the Canon, but good enough to sell.

Meanwhile, I have the Leica system for "fine art" or, in other words, fun!

 

[dazedgonebye]

I understand the why of this...I just don't think I could do it.
There are just too many things that SLRs are really good at that I don't want to lose.

Congrats to you though on the fine RF gear.

 

[Olsen]

I have brought with me my M8 to several business trips lately. To get used to it and to see what it can do. A trip to Stockholm in gray and dull weather. A trip with to Finland and, yesterday, a walk around in Copenhagen in a beautiful and bright evening with exiting light.

Most of the time the M8 performs flawlessly - I have had no hick-ups - and the perfection of the Leica optics (most of the time the Tri Elmar) shines through. But when the light gets dull and I have to switch to higher ISO settings the M8 show some ugly noice. Far worse than my 1Ds II and a 5D I have tried.

 

[ywenz]

I would love to buy a Leica M9 in the future..

 

[andcolorII]

Haven't sold the 5d stuff yet - but I sure am tempted. The big daddy Canon is just no fun after using an M8. Slow. Clunky. More like an SUV than a Porsche.

I do photograph children though and worry that absence of auto-focus may be an issue.

Still musing....

 

[rich815]

I was never a Canon guy. My first SLR was a Pentax K1000. Later I finally upgraded to Nikon having FE2 and FM2 bodies. Later again I sold those and migrated over to Contax SLR gear wanting the Zeiss glass. I still have the Contax SLR gear but must say my photography took a huge leap in quality when I finally started shooting more with rangefinders than with those behemoth SLRs.

Congrats!

 

[usccharles]

i wish there was just a plain vanilla manual SLR with the digital back, kind of like R9 DMR but much smaller. I wish someone made a SLR like my R6.2 size and made it digital. size was the main factor in selling the 5D for me.

I really enjoyed the 5D, but i'm not a professional shooter, and always like to carry my camera around my neck to shoot when ever i can, and the 5D is just such a piece of lug compared to my M8. If they only made a no frills, manual focus, manual shutter digial SLR, small in size... that would be my dream 😉 until then, i still have my R6.2 if i want to do some SLR work.

thanks for all your comments 🙂

 

[chuckcars]

Another me too post. Amazing how quick my Canon gear sold on eBay. Even sold my old Nikon S2 to get engough money for an M8. Love the M8, no major problems, even received one UV/IR filter yesterday.

 

[jdos2]

I'm in the process of doing something similar. Very happy with the image quality of the 5D, but I'm spoiled, love to explore what is new for me, &c.

The only thing holding me back is the 5 percent photography at which the SLR excels, and for that the 5D is wonderful. Macro? Um... A pain on a rangefinder. Really Long Lenses? We all know the weaknesses.

On the other hand, the fact that the images from the M8 are sharp, look nice, and come from a smaller camera that's much more familiar and easier to handle in many ways...

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

In my case, I couldn't get film images accepted by stock agencies.

Wow, how has the world changed in two/three years. I remember "professional" photographers would laugh at the idea at not submitting slides to photo agencies.

Sad, though. I've seen the quality of photos on magazines drop because you can see that many people still don't know how to handle a digital image. Somebody still drops the ball along the publishing chain.

Film was a standard. There's hardly anything standard about a digital image, compared to a slide frame. Too many cooks can add (or take) their pinch in that cyberpot.

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

I understand the why of this...I just don't think I could do it.
There are just too many things that SLRs are really good at that I don't want to lose.

I agree. I have the 5D, and my M8 (well, at Solms right now, I hope), and they complement each other very well.

I love full-frame; if I visualize in 50mm, I like getting 50mm. The M8 image quality is superb, and the glass, well... 😀

If there ever is a full-frame digital M-mount rangefinder, I'm so there. The 1.33x crop factor is borderline for me; I can work with it.

I still carry my M6 and M2...it's all good.

 

[ywenz]

I'm in the process of doing something similar. Very happy with the image quality of the 5D, but I'm spoiled, love to explore what is new for me, &c.

The only thing holding me back is the 5 percent photography at which the SLR excels, and for that the 5D is wonderful. Macro? Um... A pain on a rangefinder. Really Long Lenses? We all know the weaknesses.

by dropping the 5D, you'll also be missing out on these kind of pics..

85mm f/1.2 @ 1600iso

 

[Issy]

Considering ying and yang, I wonder if there is an "opposite" thread in a Canon DSLR forum... "Just sold my clunky M8 and bought 3 L lenses with the money..."

🙂 🙂

 

[jaapv]

by dropping the 5D, you'll also be missing out on these kind of pics..

85mm f/1.2 @ 1600iso

Why? 75 Summilux@ 640 ISO (it is possible to handhold an RF for at least 2 stops longer speeds) would have produced a similar picture. It is not the camera that counts but the -in this case very good and appealing- result.

 

[usccharles]

but i have to admit 5d has much better noise control than the M8 at iso's higher than 600.

i'm not complaining though. its a trade off i was happy to make for all the other benifits i gain from my M8. and there is also black&white

🙂

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

When I buy a camera, I pay cash for it and consider it a "sunk cost". It's not an investment I ever need to recoup. I choose carefully and keep them in my toolkit. Girlfriends, though, you can't keep a closet full of those...

Ah, well spoken, Petit Scarabé 😀

Per the girlfriends, I think Genghis Khan was ahead of his time. Also, please, don't give any nuts any ideas... 😱