Thomas Fitzgerald Photography

I was going through my web statistics yesterday and I came across a very interesting query someone had entered into Google. The search request was “Are the Canon 5D focus problems real?” This is one of those subjects that causes much controversy on web forums. On the one hand both the 5D and especially the 5D Mark II (which I’ll just refer to as the 5D from now on) have some very strong and ardent fans. Any talk of problems with this camera are quickly derided as “you’re a crap photographer and you don’t know what you’re doing”. On the other hand some very experienced Photographers do stand up and point out that the 5D does have some major issues and focus is a big one of those. The problem is the signal to noise ratio around the debate on this is very low and it’s often very hard to discern facts from fanboyism. I have owned the 5D Mark II for some months now and its predecessor for several years, so to answer the question: “does it have focus problems?”

Unfortunately, yes it does.

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