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Luis M.
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Hi Joshua, I bought mine same date aprox (Jan 2005). Now, someone is paying about 5600 $ for it. That makes 2400K for using that camera over almost 3 years. (I've made about 100k shoots with it, that makes 10 $ for every wedding work) Or if you prefer, 2400K to pay for upgrading to mkIII. That is not a bad deal for me....I bought my MarkII almost 3 years ago and if I sell now, I would be "loosing" a little over $4,000.00.
...I am thinking of using my best exotic lenses and some top notch Canon lenses, like the 180 Macro, 90mm T/S, 135mm f/2.0, 200mm f/1.8, etc. to take some interesting shots. We will see what this camera can really bring on the table.
Take care,
Joshua
Since I've not seen any good 100/200 ISO samples comparing to mkII and 5D, I will wait a bit, but I'm guessing they will come out in a big different way to what we've seen here. Actually, my dealer in Madrid will let me a brand new one piece of mkIII to test it by my self for a couple of hours. I fully agree you that it must be a serious test, with best top notch primes, standing on a tripod and shooting MLU to get the best of that cameras.
Years before, I used to shoot everything with Hasselblad, and I never compare it with 35 mm, nor I'm doing now. I DO know that MFDB, in particular H3D39II, is a much much better choice, but I'm trying to see the real performace difference between mkII and III. I tried a H3D39II last month for about a week, and results are really amazing. I almost was about to buy one of these. But honestly, if I had paid 35K $ (camera kit + 28 mm) for it, I don't think it is going to be a good deal, at least for the kind of work I'm doing, mostly 12"x18" prints, some at 12"x36".
Regards
Luis