Let’s Go Digital just posted their review on Canon EOS 5D DSLR Camera and wrote:

“Impressive is the Canon EOS 5D certainly where image quality is concerned in combination with the new EF 24-105 f/4 L IS USM lens. The sharpness is outstandingly high and the colour reproduction especially accurate. Picture Style lets you adjust it to your own taste. What’s more is the fact that the new Canon EOS 5D excels on noise and dynamic range. Moreover, ISO 3200 can be used perfectly for high quality prints and in light as well as dark areas the detail remains clearly visible. This is really impressive; you have to see it to believe it. The Canon 5D and the EOS-1D Mark II N are similar in this case. For the competitors it will be a hard nut to crack! ”

… EOS 5D is not the end of a period but the start of a whole new interesting era; a time with affordable cameras that combine a high resolution and an outstanding image quality. The Canon 5D has truly impressed me and I reluctantly returned it to Canon. The Canon 5D is a more than recommendable camera, it’s an absolute must for the Pro, but also for those who’d like to go on to a higher level, an excelling camera!

Eventhough DSLR with prices around 700 and up are booming lately, but still most people just don’t have that much camera budget. They want something that less expensive and able to take pretty good photos without worrying about buying expensive lenses.

If you’re shopping for a decent point-and-shoot digital camera for yourself or for your christmas presents, $400 may be the magic number. That amount will buy you a model that can capture good photos; offers a comfortable, attractive design; and doesn’t cut too many corners.

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Declan McCullagh gave Canon EOS 1Ds Mark II 8.9 out of 10 at CNET and wrote:

“The Canon EOS 1Ds Mark II’s image quality is superb. The original EOS 1Ds delivered superior performance, but Canon managed to best itself with the Mark II. The difference is especially obvious in low-light situations. Noise remains extremely minimal at ISO settings below 640–comparable to the Canon EOS 20D’s noise levels–and even photographs taken at ISO 1,200 are surprisingly smooth.

The downside of the 1Ds Mark II’s image quality is that your lenses must be up to the task. There’s little point in spending so much for a camera and shackling it with inferior glass. I found that my 2X teleconverter wasn’t up to the demands of the Mark II. Using the camera to its fullest also means exacting photo technique and large memory cards. Anyone shooting raw images should have at least two 4GB cards.”

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Mike Chaney compared the image quality on Canon EOS 20D VS Canon EOS 5D and wrote:

“The 5D is certainly an excellent camera in every respect. In addition to fantastic image quality, it also boasts long awaited features like a real spot metering mode and an LCD preview screen that is huge in comparison to the 20D and its predecessors. I’ll leave playing with the controls and taking the “money shots” to the other reviewers but I’ve certainly enjoyed my head to head comparison and hope that others can benefit from the information here. Say what you like about form factors, 1.5x - 1.6x versus full frame, but I suspect full frame sensors might be here to stay after these initial entries come down in price a bit. And for those of you who don’t want to give up your 20D for a 5D because you do a lot of telephoto shots and you actually like the 1.6x form factor, remember that the 20D might have a 1.6x form factor to get you closer with telephoto but the 5D has 1.25x the pixels as the 20D on both axes so you can recover at least some of that extra magnification by just cropping your photos since you have so many pixels to work with.”

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Travis has posted his samples of his new Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM and commented:

“My personal opinion at this point is that the lens is plenty sharp at 105mm, though at 24-60 this lens is SUPER sharp! The build quality is great and my initial few shots with IS have shown a noticeable improvement over the 28-135 IS I used to use. Focusing is fast and quiet, and the lens feels just right on my 20D. At this point, I’m thinking it’s definitely a keeper.

So is it sharper at 40-55mm than 105mm? In a word, yes. Sharpness at 105mm and F4 still isn’t bad, though. “

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Daniel Bayer posted his sample shot from Canon EOD 5D at ISO 3200 and commented:

“I am stunned. I think this camera may be in a league of it’s own. I always lose color when using web optimized saving for this site but you get the idea.
“Canon 5D at iso 3200, RAW, 50mm 2.5 macro at F/13. 1/80 sec. Photoshop CS2 RAW 3.2. Single low watt clear bulb tungsten lamp. No post process sharpening”
Make sure you scroll down to see it at 100%. “

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Steve Hoffmann wrote an interesting article with some sample shots discussing DSLR sensor size and pixel density in Canon 1Ds Mk II, Canon 1D Mk II, Canon 20D:

“The 20D sensor’s higher input resolution (higher pixel density) only helps with telephoto photography when your object is to fill the frame with your subject from as far away as possible. If you can zoom in, walk closer or get a longer focal length lens and fill the frame (same FOV), the 1D Mark II is on equal footing and the 1Ds Mark II’s 16.7 mp resolution will rule.

Pixel density, at least in this comparative series of images, doesn’t seem to have had the expected relational effect on random digital noise and dynamic range. The three cameras did equally well with slightly blown highlight reproduction. Even more confusing, the 20D seems to have edged out both the 1D Mark II and the 1Ds Mark II in producing slightly less dark area noise than either of these cameras. The 1D Mark II with its larger photosites should have been the winner here but turned out to be the worse noise producer.”

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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.”