Canon 5Dmkii in 2024 IS worth buying – Heres why

hey dudes do you remember this camera the 5d 
mark ii it launched back in november 2008.   it created such a disruption in the film industry 
that even hollywood productions had to succumb to   its charms and for many emerging filmmakers 
people like me at the time it helped redefine   the film industry by levelling the playing 
field and thus earning the moniker game   changer now 14 years on these cameras are 
an absolute steal so the big question is   this if you're starting out should you consider 
buying one of these well the best way for me to   answer that question is to talk to you about my 
journey using the 5d mark ii so let's get into it it's crazy reflecting back on the 14 year journey 
i've had with this camera as before 2008 i was   shooting film i had my trusty canon ae1 for stills 
my 35mm ariebl2 for commercials and film work   and my bowlex for animation work but before 2008 
producers budgets had already started to shrink   our music video budgets dropped from 50k down 
to 5k and that wasn't because of our work it   was because of an industry trend and thus the 
inevitable death of shooting on film was looming   and with a huge debt owing on my film camera i 
got lucky when i picked up one of these getting   the first one in my state and as they were hard 
to come by i was able to snap up a lot of work   and very easy rentals so i had a little bit of 
luck for the smartest career move i've ever made   then full frame just exploded and within a 
couple of jobs i'd paid for all of the lenses   and the camera bodies so i bought another one 
and before i knew it i was shooting campaigns   all over the world i banked almost five hundred 
thousand dollars got an agent bought a ton of   other equipment and won a lot of cinematography 
awards all from a canon 5d mark ii but most of all   i'd finally learned the more expensive cameras 
don't make better cinematographers better   cinematography comes from learning to serve the 
story understanding light and composition so i   stuck with the 5d mark ii over the mark iii and 
4 and still use them to animate to this very day   every single video on my channel has some 5d mark 
ii footage on it so if that doesn't answer your   question of whether a 5d mark ii is still a good 
camera today for stills or for video work then i   hope these examples will recently i hit the beach 
in france following my friend who's a pro surfer   the beach isn't a great place for your own 
gear it's a better environment for rentals   but as a favor on a no budget production i took 
my least expensive most disposable cameras these   guys the shoot style was observational fly on the 
wall all hand held manual focus pulling at f 1.2   and my day at the beach reminded me this is such 
an easy camera to operate and in some senses i   wish that canon had stuck with this design and 
button layout the menus while advanced for 2008   now seem basic but that could be perfect for a 
novice videographer or someone who just wants   to take photos what i'm trying to say is the 
canon 5d mark ii isn't intimidating at all   to use and for those who say in 2022 you need a 
better camera than that to be successful online   this is my response here's an advert idp'd for get 
up back in 2011 on a 5d mark ii it has 16 million   views it was shot in one day all natural available 
light the footage has never been graded it's just   as i shot it and here's another idp for the 
some of us and the world wildlife foundation   it has over 7 million views could i 
have shot these in a red or an area   yeah of course would that have 
made them better productions   yeah it would have but those cameras wouldn't 
have made the stories or concepts better and   at the end of the day serving the story that you 
want to tell is the most important thing of all   so if you only have a couple hundred dollars in a 
5d mark ii looks appealing i say go for it and i   haven't even touched on how good these cameras are 
for photography still to this day i own a 4 000   us dollar r5 two eos rs and i still pick up the 
canon 5d mark ii every day to take photos these   things are just bulletproof so what if they've 
only got a 20 megapixel sensor the photos look   fantastic and while i might not get the hit rate 
on moving subjects compared with my r5 i do find   the exposure meter in the 5d mark ii more accurate 
than the r5 so newer is not always better it just   depends on how you use the camera but if you would 
like to see a more in-depth review on the 5d mark   ii's photo capabilities drop a comment down below 
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