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Canon Eos-5d Digital Slr Camera Review
Best "Bang for the Buck."
- Image quality
Pros
- Slow advance rate
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- Art
- Landscapes
- Portraits
- Travel
- Weddings
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"I will get the down and dirty out of the way quickly: this thing is phenomenal, go buy one right now, then come back and read the review.
Done? Okay...
Buy this camera for the image quality, as no other small format (35 mm form factor) camera equals it in this regard, including those priced four times as much. The key is the full size image sensor with only 12.8 megapixels packed into it. This means that the individual pixels are larger than on any other camera of its size. Larger pixels equal greater resolving power, brighter, more saturated colors, and greater contrast. Comparing this to a crop sensor camera is like comparing a 645 to a 35 back in film's heyday. Yes, the images are that much better.
The other advantage of larger pixels is greater light-gathering ability. While it is only rated for ISO 50-3200, you can cheat it to 12,500 and beyond, and still get recognizable images. From ISO 50 to 3200, this is at least the equal of any other camera (with the possible exception of the Nikon D3--I haven't used it yet, so I can't say). Image quality is excellent up through 1600, and noise is certainly visible, but not terribly objectionable even at 3200. Image quality degrades quickly beyond that, though.
A fantastic feature found only on high-end cameras, but incredibly useful to advanced amateur and professional photographers is the ability to set the ISO speed in 1/3 stop increments. For those who wish to grow with a camera, but expect to need greatness later, the "full auto" mode is fantastic, offering not only automatic shutter speed and aperture, but also automatic ISO adjustment on the fly to help keep the exposures within handhold ability.
The Digic II processor is not as quick, clean, or accurate as the new Digic III, but it is more than adequate for most professional uses. The only real downside to this camera is the lack of speed compared to many other DSLR's of today, but is only a problem for sports and bird photographers. Portrait, wedding, and landscape photographers on a limited budget cannot do better than the Canon EOS 5D."
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