Canon 5D - the price is (nearly) right

[mikef]

I've been waiting for £1,500, but £1,600 is near enough. Ordered from the Digital Camera Co (www.digital-cameras.com/digital-cameras/canon-eos-5d-body.html), with £200 cash-back from Canon

Please Mr post-man...

[V6GTO]

UK-Bob...time to get your wallet out mate...

Martin.

[Andy M]

This is the exact move I made a couple of weeks ago

Two warnings; firstly, the sensor attracts dust unlike any other camera (read: buy a sensor sweep), and secondly, as strange as it sounds the 5D really highlights any imperfections in your glass. I borrowed a friends Sigma 50-500 ('Bigma') and discovered the images to be quiet flat - lifeless. The tones in the images taken with his Canon 100-400L were hugely improved.

I'd like to post samples but a serious case of brain fade resulted in me deleting them from my card before I'd had chance to put a copy on my computer.

[mikef]

Andy M said:

the sensor attracts dust unlike any other camera

Jeez, you are not kidding - I have used the 5D on just one 4-day trip to Croatia since new and it's in at Fixation for a cleaning.

I did pick up a very informative leaflet they have produced describing why some DSLR's (especially full-frame) suffer from dust and what you can do to avoid or at least minimize it

[robdickinson]

Sensor is roughly twice the area of an APS-C sensor with larger pixels, dust will be more of a problem, both in area and visibility.

[mikef]

And apparently with a much higher static charge that attracts dust which might not impact the smaller sensors (and they were bad enough...)

[mikef]

I should add that if anyone else is tempted by Canon's £200 cash back, it was credited to my bank account in a couple of weeks, not the 2 months I expected - good going, Canon