Ronan Burke, a wedding photographer, had his hands on the new Canon EOS 5D and Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS from his last wedding job and wrote:

“Image quality from the pair: I’m don’t use any form of in-camera sharpening or colour tweaking so I can’t comment on any of these. Opening the image Canon Raw and processing it from there results in excellent images for my purposes. Skins are silky smooth: a quality I like from Canon DSLRs. Images definitely need more sharpening than those straight from the 1Ds. For an A3 print I’d generally sharpen a 1Ds image (using CS2’s smart sharpen) by 100%, Radius 1. To get the same results from the 5D meant using around 150%,1. However there is so little ‘noise’ that I don’t see this as a problem. Exposure latitude seems excellent. The couple in shade and the background sunny didn’t cause any problems: the background is bright but not unnatural. To check my sharpness theory I shot images of a CD box outside with the 1Ds and the 5D, both with an EF50 f1.8 set to F8 (I used CD boxes to see how easy the bar codes are to read). The 1Ds definitly has more detail to start with. I also did the same test at f1.8 to check there was no forward or back focus problem that apparently affected early 10Ds.”

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