Canon 5D Classic in 2024: An Emotional Response

The Canon 5D holds a very special place in this strange landscape of Camera Land... Here's an absolutely non-technical review and reason I have turned this into my Every Day Carry.

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[ricodeco]

Nice video. I bought the D30 when it first came out, then the 10D, then the 5D in 2005. I stopped there because it just felt like the right one for me. It still does nearly 20 years later. Wishing you success.

[markashworth]

I bought my 5d classic in July of 2023, and I like it. A lot. But that's not why I'm writing this comment. No. I'm commenting because this video took me home. I grew up in a Norman Rockwell painting, a small Maple-lined-street village in Michigan where our neighbor Bud Gilmour delivered our milk, where we played in the woods and fields and rode our bikes until the streetlights came on and we had to go inside for the night. Where I would lie on my back in the tick-free tall grass to watch the summertime clouds drift and dance and make bunnies and lions and... I like my 5d very much. But you took me home, to a distant time and place that is the very core of who I am, all these decades hence. And I'm grateful. Thank you Chris.

[DavidMacVicar]

I used to shoot weddings. When I got my first 5D, everything just 'clicked' (pun intended). Brings back exciting memories!

[SF-MCMLXVII]

Agree it is such a great camera for its simplicity and image quality. Something about not seeing the image on the back screen due to its low resolution and then the surprise you get when you see the photo result on a monitor. Also have the 6D and that is a great camera too (with close but not same colour as 5D Classic) and few extra features for those times you need to get the shot.

[toml]

I purchased the 5D new in 2005 with kit 24-105L for over $3000, still have it. I recently purchased 2 more 5D bodies for $30 each in mint condition. Time may have changed the cost but it didn't change a great camera.

[gregshawphotography]

I recently bought a 30D from a thrift store, and I miss how the big DSLR’S felt when you held it in your hands. The images I can make now with the older cameras combined with all the knowledge I’ve learned make for some beautiful imagery now.

[superbug]

Very cool. It was the camera with which I left film photography. I had gone as far as I wanted in film, having learned photography in 1980 in my senior year (we all learned on old Pentax 35mm cameras which was the norm then). My last medium format film cameras was a Pentax 645nII, a beautiful and high-tech beast of the era. My other favorite was a Mamiya 1000s with an 80mm f1.9 lens. I sold them all for the Canon 5D. I still own three 5D cameras--can't give them up. I have paired one with a Sigma 50mm f1.4 lens. The old meets the new. Anyway, good video.

[djmcwill]

Forced myself to consolidate gear as too many options (batteries, chargers, lenses, adapters, filters, flashes...) were becoming an impediment to the process of just getting out and doing some shooting. Ditched my 5D, 5D Mark II, 5D Mark III, Lumix G85, etc. I will miss the 5D classic the most. It brings me pain to see any of my old shots with it. The 5D classic renders files so good it's almost stupid. One day, maybe when my kids are older and out of the house and there's more time for me, I'll be able to find a copy as nice as the one I sold. Such a fabulous camera that delivered wow routinely.

[mashudali]

OOh - cool closing of the loop and now I want this camera... I bought the Canon AE1 in 2005 hah!

[jimmay]

What a pleasant video.

I bought my 5D at launch in August 2005, going straight from 35mm to digital with no "crop" step. I kept shooting the way I did on my film camera - trying to get it right in camera instead of post (though I did shoot RAW to have that option). I even purchased the Ee-S focusing screen for it, to make manual focus easier as modern cams lack the old focusing aids like split prisms etc..

Having shot that way for so long, I still tend to shoot like that with my Panasonic G9, though I will now shoot more shots now that the card could hold over a thousand of them.

And now that one of the radioactive 50mm Takumars has fallen into my hands and I've caught the vintage lens bug, I've found myself going back to the 5D as well. I was going to declutter the old fella, but reconsidered when I saw that the 5D had itself reached vintage status, and the EF mount is by far the best for adapting to other mounts.

[T-Prime]

I had the Canon 1000D, Canon 30D, Canon 100D
I sold all of them but after a while I felt like missing the Canon vibes so I bought the 20D
And after all these years I do believe that there is nothing that can beat the Canon, s Color Style
I do hope to find a good used 5D because its a legendary camera
Here in Germany it’s really hard to find a one with a good shape
Thank you for this video …

[Frussh]

I've spent probably months fantasizing about upgrading my a6000 to an a6700 or an a7c to match the new Sigma Art lens I just bought. Yesterday I saw a Canon 5D and a 17-40mm L lens on facebook marketplace for cheap and I felt compelled to buy it, so I am. This video made me nostalgic for a camera and an experience I've never felt before, but this video got me excited for an almost 20 year old camera and a whole untapped amount of new experiences to feel.

[wearetrackclub]

Love how you put this together, Chris! Great content and shots 🙌

[Josenapoleonn]

Damn I don’t have a memory like this with a certain camera body being that I’m new to photography but last year my Gf and I took a trip to CDMX (amazing city btw) and I took a pic of this pay phone in the neighborhood of Condesa and man it brought me back to my childhood no doubt. I shot it with ilford HP5 and when I got my scans back I was instantly transported to the time when I would call my mom to pick me up from the movies from a pay phone. Much simpler simpler times then. She trusted me to call her. I had 50 cents to make the call. It was so nice back then. She’s gone from this world but that photos takes me there every time I see it.

[derrenleepoole]

What a lovely little video essay. Love my 5D…. such a simple camera with amazing image quality.

[codyallen]

Great video and well scripted! 5Dc and the 40 is my favorite for EDC as well.

[markdbey]

Amazing video. I've wanted a 5D Classic just because, for a little while now. I think I may just get one this weekend. 😎

[THETRUTHISOUTTHERE-mv]

Idk I have modern mirrorless camera and 5d classic is definitely camera what i take first.

[billgreen]

Great video, thanks. I might charge my old 5D up and put on that hardly ever used 40mm after seeing this, interested to see how it performs now.

[timwoodphoto]

I love mine! It’s battered, dented and the mirror is superglued in after it fell out.

I usually shoot it with a 35mm f1.4, but your video has made me consider the smaller 40mm f2.8.

You’re right though, it loves light. The files are a dream to edit, and it’s ‘just’ a photo camera. No frills. Slow and steady.

Great vid - Hope to see more!