Tiffany – 2 (365 #082)
It has been a while since I’ve posted. I have shot over 2000 pictures of people in the past three days – all with the 5D Mark 2 and I still haven’t had to charge the batteries! I use the battery grip so have 2 batteries in use at all times.
Some observations of the 5D Mark II:
1) Autofocus in low light is pretty good. One-Shot is dead on, while the servo mode seems to search more in the low light than my 1D MkII (overall, the autofocus of the 1D MkII is faster and more accurate – but that is probably because of the differences in the systems)
2) RAW file size: Holy cow it packs a lot of data in RAW! The files are huge – and take quite a while to download. I am using Transcend 133x 8 GB and 4GB cards (btw: these work fine for video from the 5D MkII). I think I will purchase faster cards when I get the chance.
3) The bokeh for f/2.8 and f/1.2 are totally different for the 85 mm and the 70-200. But, I’ll still keep using them.
4) Shooting Tiffany and her boys along the river was a lot of fun – and despite being still early in the season, the backgrounds all fuzzy are awesome. The browns really matched their hair and coloring well.
