If it works. Go for it. A hundred year old camera is still worth it.

I still have mine, had two for a while. While I have a 6D for astro work, the 5 is the digital equivalent of a K1000. It's a tank, and everything that comes out of it looks like film. It really is an amazing camera!

Canon make great printers!, any camera that takes a picture is worth it. Like you know ive gone back to film, which in my opinion is far more satisfying than digital. congratulations on the 1k mate keep going.

Technology has made amazing steps forward but this is still my favorite camera in most ( not all but most ) applications

The problem I had was dust too easily got in. Expect frequent sensor cleans.

If you wanna take pictures, of course.

Nice video, glad that church steeple came out level in the end. Very good information. Don't worry about the mirror, if it goes, it probably will go suddenly, mine did. I superglued it back on using 4 tiny dots one in each corner, applied pressured for 30 seconds or whatever the glue instructions said to do, it has been fine for years now. The only odd thing I ran into was that I needed to upgrade the firmware to whatever the last version was in order to deal with larger CF cards. Had the very original old firmware and it shot fine onto a larger card but had a problem during review on the camera, new firmware took care of that just fine. Best wishes! Good work!

If I was taking my time with things, I would be interested in getting one of these - as I usually shoot in the moment, I shan't - though I wonder if the 2nd version is faster to acquire focus?

You mean before Canon lost its way as regards build quality, the bodies that they are coming out with now are nothing short of scandalous for the price that hard working photographers have to pay for.

Great sensor. I revisited this camera again recently, but the auto focus was so slow and bad in any low light I decided it wasn't worth it for me.

My first digital camera, my mirror fell off, I simply glued it back on ,and even bought a second one cheap with the same problem and glued that one on as well , I got some beautiful results, thanks for the video

It turns out that the red dot does not appear on the focus point when focusing. I thought it was just my camera that was broken. It turns out it is a common problem.

I changed two cards and updated the firmware, both showed:“update file canont be found please check the memory card and reload the battery and try again”

To be truthful, I would get a 5D mark II ,I loved mine had it for many years and although I have many other cameras , including a R5 Canon I still take it out a lot when testing lens or just everyday photo's...

Images are labelled 5d Mark II, shouldn't it say Mark I or 5D classic? Or did you revert to the Mark II while shooting?

How did people in the past take photos of themselves alone? This is unimaginable to me

I just bought a basically new 80d to replace my old ass rebel T series. I still dream of full frames.😂😂😂😂😂