tjjm wrote:
Have been shooting nature/wildlife with a 7D mark ll for a few years and really enjoying it but wanting to branch out. Looking for a full frame camera to delve into the world of macro and saw the 5Ds. It can be purchased for roughly the same price as a 5D mark lV, higher megs, familiar processor. Anyone have experience with this model. Thoughts and advice appreciated.
Tom
IF you want the highest resolution available in a "full frame" camera and...
IF you are okay with a slower frame rate and...
IF you have a computer with enough processing power, RAW and both memory card and hard drive storage space for the much larger files and....
IF you don't need particularly high ISO (5DS range ISO 100 to 6400, expandable to 50 and 12800... 5DIV range ISO 100-32000, expandable to 50, 51200 and 102400) and...
IF you plan to make HUGE prints and...
IF you already have or are okay investing in premium lenses to use on it...
THEN the 5DS (or 5DS-R) might be a good camera for you! It should be great for macro and landscape shots.... though not so great for wildlife. There are some advantages using a cropper like your current camera for birds, distant critters, and sports or anything else that calls for powerful telephotos.
The 5D Mark IV offers higher frame rate, much higher usable ISO, a similar but more advanced AF system, a Touch Screen and Dual Pixel Auto Focus in Live View (which can be very useful for macro, as well as video... 5DS models have neither a Touchscreen or DPAF). Sure, it's "only" 30MP... 50% more resolution than your crop camera and 36% more than the 5D Mark III.
Personally I do most of my shooting with crop cameras.... a pair of 7DII same as yours (and have used as high as ISO 16000 with those). Those handle about 90% of what I shoot (mostly sports, some wildlife). But I also have a full frame 5D Mark II that I've used over the years for some other purposes (portraits, macro, landscapes, seascapes, cityscapes, architecture). I eventually plan to upgrade to the 5D Mark IV and think that will work well for all but the sports/wildlife shooting. But if I find myself doing a lot of land/sea/cityscape shooting, pretty sure I'll want the 5DS or 5DS-R.