Am I 'hurting' my 5D3 with the 24-105L

Charlie wrote in post #17142380
well, sometimes, pixel peeping is necessary. If you intend to print large, you should definitely pixel peep. There might be a stray object, dust in your lens, or whatever. You might find those on a larger print and discard your print after the fact.... I've done it multiple times now since I tend to avoid peeping.

Nowadays, pretty all of my landscape photos are peeped. It's just my personal belief in clean technical work.

I get it for landscape photos that are being enlarged to 20 x 30. And you're right - I think even Ansel Adams scrutinized his photos on his enlarger before he made a print. So I know you do have to mind clone stamping out people, burning and dodging in the right places, and otherwise cleaning up big landscape enlargements.

Peter Miller was just mocking the people who pixel peep on every one of their photos and then start to debate the merits of a 24-70 f/2.8 versus a 24-105 f/4 versus a 50mm f/1.2 prime because they're sitting around on their computer pixel peeping at every image trying to prove to themselves which lens is inferior. He was saying that's stupid and a waste of time. And he's a millionaire producing photographer. So I think he's on to something. Hehehe

Pixel peeping is something we all do, whether we want to admit it or not. But to judge a picture, I usually resize it to my monitor native size (2560x1440) and then see how sharp/contrasty it is. I couldn't care less about this or that lens or brand loyalty.

hey lapino, I feel you on why you dont carry the 5D3 anymore. Here's what I've lugged before:

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Well, seems the choice has been made for me. The person who was willing to buy my 5D3/70-200 combo just called me blowing off the deal because I asked him a little more time to decide. Of course, I can understand this but at the same time, this made it obvious for me: keep the 5D3 for a while.

I was in doubt way too much anyway to take the step to completely say goodbye to my slr, even if it's unused in the bag for a lot of time. But when I take it out, it still feels incredibly good in the hand. I will still be trying to sell off my 24105L and 70200L to go for a couple nice primes and a 24-70L/2.8 because that is what I need more. For the light stuff, I have the Sony a6000 + 1670Z + 24Z which isn't bad in itself. The Fuji might have been too close to the Sony perhaps in terms of performance.

I think I'm going to give it a little more time and check in a few weeks which camera has been used the most and maybe order the X-T1 from a shop which allows me to return it. If the Fuji would turn out to be a way better camera than the a6000 then maybe I'll switch from Sony > Fuji and then decide whether or not to keep the Canon.

For people who think this is a GAS, mind that the main reason I started looking into Fuji was because of the nice and affordable primes, something which seems is impossible for the 5D3 without spending a LOT more (the 85/1.2 for example). My guess is I would be very well served with a 24-70L/2.8, a Sigma 50/1.4 and a Canon 135L/Canon 100L. This would cover a lot of what I need, while still being pretty good in low light.