If you wanna take pictures, of course.

If it works. Go for it. A hundred year old camera is still worth it.

Technology has made amazing steps forward but this is still my favorite camera in most ( not all but most ) applications

Great sensor. I revisited this camera again recently, but the auto focus was so slow and bad in any low light I decided it wasn't worth it for me.

@andrewfindlayphoto

2 күн бұрын

@@SteveHartmanVideos Have you tried going old school. Manual focus with a dark cloth over your head. 🤔

Nice video, glad that church steeple came out level in the end. Very good information. Don't worry about the mirror, if it goes, it probably will go suddenly, mine did. I superglued it back on using 4 tiny dots one in each corner, applied pressured for 30 seconds or whatever the glue instructions said to do, it has been fine for years now. The only odd thing I ran into was that I needed to upgrade the firmware to whatever the last version was in order to deal with larger CF cards. Had the very original old firmware and it shot fine onto a larger card but had a problem during review on the camera, new firmware took care of that just fine. Best wishes! Good work!

@andrewfindlayphoto

9 күн бұрын

@@johnjon1823 Thank for the info. I'm glueing it soon to make sure 👍

I just bought a basically new 80d to replace my old ass rebel T series. I still dream of full frames.😂😂😂😂😂

If I was taking my time with things, I would be interested in getting one of these - as I usually shoot in the moment, I shan't - though I wonder if the 2nd version is faster to acquire focus?

@andrewfindlayphoto

7 күн бұрын

@@DrZeeple When you say 2nd Version I assume you mean 5D Mark II, which has better focusing on the external focus points. Still not the best. But the most consistent one is still the centre square on both types of cameras.

How did people in the past take photos of themselves alone? This is unimaginable to me

@andrewfindlayphoto

8 күн бұрын

@@user-my2lq1cz4y Put it in manual focus on a tripod. Focus on the ground where you will be standing. Put the 10 second delay on. Push the shutter and run to that spot 🤣. Small mirror on a carboard L shape in hotshoe. You used to be able to get a monitor that plugs into the HDMI.

To be truthful, I would get a 5D mark II ,I loved mine had it for many years and although I have many other cameras , including a R5 Canon I still take it out a lot when testing lens or just everyday photo's...

@andrewfindlayphoto

6 күн бұрын

@@kibbsnowden6893 I'm still using my 5D Mark II now as my main camera. But would use the 5D Mark I Classic for infrared and portraits. It's got a look.

@HeyJD123

Күн бұрын

As someone who recently got a 5d Mark II, I'm not really sure how people use it. Auto-focus often can't focus on eyes, no golden hour photography works without grainy 3200 iso, even manually focusing on eyes seems to produce blurry results at f8.0. I must be doing something wrong that new cameras do for me.

@andrewfindlayphoto

Күн бұрын

@@HeyJD123 Low light people photography is beyond the 5D 2 it's one up from a film camera. Set the focus point on the centre square, then use the view finder focus recompose method or Live View at 10X in manual. You're lens might need to be focus sinked / calabrated with the camera (I think that's what it's called. Might be wrong) I wouldn't use any ISO above 1600. Check the diopter is right for your eyes.

@HeyJD123

Күн бұрын

@andrewfindlayphoto Thanks a lot for your tips! I'll try them out. I'll also try out the lens calibration

@keithwiebe1787

18 сағат бұрын

I had a 5dm2 but it soon developed a line in pic at high magnifications so traded for 5dm3 which is a much better camera with better video by far. The 5dm2 had terrible moire patterns in video without special anti aliasing filter attached to sensor. But much better is new Canon R8. Focus is wonderful and much improved video that can actually track subjects.

It turns out that the red dot does not appear on the focus point when focusing. I thought it was just my camera that was broken. It turns out it is a common problem.

@andrewfindlayphoto

8 күн бұрын

@@user-my2lq1cz4y you can always turn on the bleep sound, that helps.

I changed two cards and updated the firmware, both showed:“update file canont be found please check the memory card and reload the battery and try again”

@andrewfindlayphoto

8 күн бұрын

@@user-my2lq1cz4y Don't know what that problem is, but if the card is over 8Gb it might not work. The info is somewhere on KZread or the web. Jon Jon in the comments mentioned it.

Images are labelled 5d Mark II, shouldn't it say Mark I or 5D classic? Or did you revert to the Mark II while shooting?

@andrewfindlayphoto

9 күн бұрын

@@johnjon1823 Dam it. I forgot to change them. Thanks for letting me know. 🤯 All Mark I

@elisabethkasper4026

8 күн бұрын

Still worthy in 2024!