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I will red pill you on the 5Dc, as it was my main shooter from 2008-2016, and I ended up buying another one later on for a project.
It bands the shadows like a bitch if you push the ISO more than a stop. Just pretend you're shooting slide film. At lower ISO it's a knockout and Canon DSLR glass is cheap now. The meter is usually over a stop on greens and hard highlights so underexpose a stop on shit like white puffy clouds and predominatly green scenes.
They are great for adapting other mounts, a Nikon FE split-prism screen will drop right in to the stock screen holder with no shims or modification and it is dead-nuts accurate. You can adapt most M42 and Nikkor AI lenses to them.
Another thing is they do not have a self-cleaning sensor, so don't shoot in dusty environments unless you're best friends with your local camera shop.
Earlier models are prone to losing the mirror in high humidity environments and both 5Dcs I owned back in the day lost their mirror, CPS covered one and the other I did myself because I had access to the right tools to do it through my employer at the time.
Should you buy one in 2023? Hell yes, they are great to shoot with and feel great in the hands. They're built like a brick shithouse. I am on a 2 week vacation in southern Utah and I bought mine and it has pretty much lived at 50 and 100 ISO the whole time I've been here.
