your thoughts on the new 5d?

[synapseman]

Hi to all,

I think it is about time for me to purchase Digital SLR after having a good use of Dynax 7 for years. Dynax 5D is good start, I guess!

Anyway, can anyone tell me what are the disadvantages of using the old Minolta lenses on digital SLR body like Dynax 5D as compare to the new D lenses?

I don't think I've enough cash to migrate all my existing lenses to the D type.

Please advise.. thanks.

The D-series lens when used with the 5600HS(D) and 3600HS(D) allows the camera to take distance into account when determining flash exposures. Would be useful for highly reflective surfaces, for example. This only works for direct flash, so if you shoot with diffusers and/or bounce flash, then the camera switches to normal TTL mode, thus no diff from normal lenses.

Also, with D lenses, you can switch to Direct Manual Focusing.

 

[Drudkh]

errr... DMF works with all AF lenses.

 

[Del_CtrlnoAlt]

The D-series lens when used with the 5600HS(D) and 3600HS(D) allows the camera to take distance into account when determining flash exposures. Would be useful for highly reflective surfaces, for example. This only works for direct flash, so if you shoot with diffusers and/or bounce flash, then the camera switches to normal TTL mode, thus no diff from normal lenses.

Also, with D lenses, you can switch to Direct Manual Focusing.

think u got a really bad misconception... try shooting at a mirror and tell me if your D will work or not... its highly reflective, a D & non-D will give you the same effect...

anyway, if your D chip 'fxxked' up, or your lens focusing calibration off, i think every pic also die, i'd say nothing beats a TTL in such case... i could be wrong...

 

[TME]

Thank you so much for your kind advice. At least, now for sure I know that I don't have to spend so much on lenses. BTW have you try with 2x teleplus or uniplus. Your comments, please.

Teleplus & Sigma converters work... tried it before... so do the Tamron ones... but note that only the Teleplus ones work with all Minolta lens due to the protruding rear element of zoom lenses that are Minolta compatible or from Minolta itself...

 

[synapseman]

errr... DMF works with all AF lenses.

Doesn't work with my Tokina 19-35mm on my Dynax 60. But it does for my 28-100mm D kit lens.

 

[synapseman]

think u got a really bad misconception... try shooting at a mirror and tell me if your D will work or not... its highly reflective, a D & non-D will give you the same effect...

anyway, if your D chip 'fxxked' up, or your lens focusing calibration off, i think every pic also die, i'd say nothing beats a TTL in such case... i could be wrong...

Well, that's what it's supposed to do anyway, according to what KM says. But frankly, I hardly use direct flash so I really wouldn't know. Their TTL is plenty good in this case, I must agree.

 

[Drudkh]

Doesn't work with my Tokina 19-35mm on my Dynax 60. But it does for my 28-100mm D kit lens.

is that so?
so far 7D's DMF works on all my lenses, Minolta and 3rd party, with (D) and without.

 

[pcc]

am new to minolta. Justwant to know if there are any w/a lens available for the D7D and the soon-2-be released 5D.

 

[Drudkh]

the widest angle will be the 11-18mm DT which is meant for DSLRs only. should be released very soon.

 

[deslim27]

the widest angle will be the 11-18mm DT which is meant for DSLRs only. should be released very soon.

or Sigma 12-24 lor for FF.

 

[GENO]

or Sigma 12-24 lor for FF.

12-24mm is great for both film & digi:thumbsup: ...but sigma may be a let down..:cry:

 

[TME]

The optical quality of the 11-18 is supposed to be superb as reviewed by Michael R of Luminous Landscape.... there should be a Minolta version. It's cheaper than the Sigma and I would think of better build quality. In general, I have found that the SP range from Tamron is better built than the EX range from Sigma... the Sigma lenses have a rather flimsy feeling, especially the zoom and focus rings... u can imagine that when my 17-35mm f/2.8-4 is much lighter than my Tamron 24-135 f/3.5-5.6. The Sigma has 16/12 elements/groups while the Tamron has 14/10... the Sigma has an 82mm thread while the Tamron has a 77mm thread... yet the Sigma is lighter by a fair bit... what does this tell u? :think:

 

[Drudkh]

It tells me I should buy the new KM 11-18. ;p

 

[Isaiahfortythirtyone]

hey guys...someone at the dpreview forums posted this comparison in ISO noise levels between the 5d and 7d. check it out

http://forum.xitek.com/showthread.php?threadid=305753

 

[sulhan]

Same.....and matching output...

rgds,
sulhan

 

[Isaiahfortythirtyone]

lens test

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1035&message=14517802

Aperture/Sharpness Test

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1035&message=14517783

not too sharp leh.....the kit lens

 

[doUbleCHIN]

Just bought the 5D and my first DSLR and are now exploring the wonderful possibility. One thing I noticed though is the LCD dsplay which is used to display all necessay info while taking shots. My only grumble is the LCD will lit up when I half press the shuttle while I was looking through the view finder. To me I find this to be distracting sometime especially taking in low light as the glare somehow "disturbing". However after setting the display to "Auto mode", it will not happend. I thought "manual mode" should mean I decide when I want it to be display.

Any thoughts? Is 7D also behave in this manner? Or it is just me?

 

[Drudkh]

lens test

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1035&message=14517802

Aperture/Sharpness Test

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1035&message=14517783

not too sharp leh.....the kit lens

haha, i see the photos, like OOF instead of sharp. ;p

 

[Del_CtrlnoAlt]

Just bought the 5D and my first DSLR and are now exploring the wonderful possibility. One thing I noticed though is the LCD dsplay which is used to display all necessay info while taking shots. My only grumble is the LCD will lit up when I half press the shuttle while I was looking through the view finder. To me I find this to be distracting sometime especially taking in low light as the glare somehow "disturbing". However after setting the display to "Auto mode", it will not happend. I thought "manual mode" should mean I decide when I want it to be display.

Any thoughts? Is 7D also behave in this manner? Or it is just me?

5D no eye activating sensor? hmm that sucks... thought all minolta will have that...

you can always off the LCD screen wat... look thru the viewfinder, the aperture & shutter is shown inside...

 

[Del_CtrlnoAlt]

haha, i see the photos, like OOF instead of sharp. ;p

i think the person who tested abit blur... the test reversed... how to see the aperture test if he dun have a foreground background to see... no diff to me for all the pics lor...

den sharpness test should be the aperture test lor...