George N. Nyman published a personal comparison with samples of Canon EOS 5D with Nikon D2x and wrote:

“The Canon 5D is a very attractive camera but still, the contrast rendition is not really close to perfect as the overall image contrast is pretty high. There are subprograms which allow for a slightly smoother contrast with less steep curves - and this helps a bit, but still, I do see in critically illuminated scenes too much contrast in the digital shots.

The color rendition on the other hand is very brilliant - the 5D is a color-friendly camera, the images are very pleasing but sometimes maybe a bit too colorful - this can be adjusted as well, but using the standard shooting modes, for my liking. the colors are a tiny bit too colorful.
Something else which I think I should mention is the fact that for my liking the images of the 5D are a bit too soft - they need considerably more sharpening to be crispy than the ones coming out of the Nikon D2X. At very first glance, one could think that the resolution is slightly limited, but no, all the details are existent, they are just very soft and this creates this initial feeling that the images are a tiny bit out of focus - but they are not. When you compare the raw images (in their initial factory default settings) of both cameras, of the 5D and the D2X, you immediately see the difference between them - Nikon’s default raw image is crispier and a bit less colorful whereas Canon’s default raw image is more colorful and a bit less crispy.”

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