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Just as the APS-C format codend the digital landscape (professional machines of one million pesetas, first; mid-range cameras and half a million, then, models for fans to a relatively low price, to finish), the full – frame continues its pattern.

Could predict that the format will reach the full field of amateur and beach in the near future, but that is a different story.

Considerations

Although it ceded to QUESABESDE.COM the Canon EOS 5D with a few months late and a 70-300 mm f4-5.6 IS (no one would leave an F1 test with tires for cars), the objectives are used for this analysis as follows: 14mm f2.8; 16-35 mm f2.8, 17-35 f2.8; 17-40 mm f4; 24-70 mm f2.8, 50 mm F1.4, 70-200 mm f2 8 IS 200 mm f1.8, and the aforementioned 70-300 mm f4-5.6 IS.

While the EOS 5D is not a specially designed camera or the amateur photographer nor the professional, both may benefit from it. Regarding its main use, our analysis suggests that invites an SLR is mainly created to study photography and social development, that is, for any who Picture mode does not require an especially huge response rate.

Even so, we have tested this model in a game of basketball, we have done with her fashion; us we have a couple of sara, and even several press conferences. He has suffered his own and has made it clear where their strengths are and where their shortcomings.

A body with curves

Midway between the EOS 30D (or the EOS 20D, as a matter of dates) and the series EOS-1D, the EOS 5D offers a good first impression, reminding the long-EOS-1 without an engine. A small glimpse at the controls, especially the mode dial, the lack of grip as standard or the lack of a quick-pantallita reference data such as sensitivity and white balance, quickly reminds us that this is a professional SLR “second level”, albeit only externally.

The magnesium alloy invited to trust the good grip and endurance, but we have not had the opportunity to verify this second point. The use of the camera is comfortable and pleasant, and controls can be handled without major need to separate the eye of the viewer.

The brightness of the display can be changed easily (something dark is the default). Higher than in other previous models, offers multiple data points for each shot, including a histogram of luminance and color channels, which other models, the EOS 20D, not least-nots.

In addition, serves as a cozy home in the menus of adjustment, allowing like-like-professionals vary a handful of technical parameters to be every photographer who fits the camera itself, and not vice versa.

Multiple possibilities

Making a small point and leaving the external appearance parked a couple of paragraphs, through these menus, uncomfortable to watch and far more difficult to handle, the EOS 5D lets you modify values on a scale of nine points, saturation, contrast or the color tone, as well as choose from seven levels of sharpness (we would recommend to align five or six by default).

Added to this, the EOS 5D factory incorporates a series of pre-settings: portrait mode, landscape, neutral, faithful … ideals, according to Canon, to take pictures in all kinds of situations. Even a monochrome mode is available and another sepia, both difficult to see in an SLR camera with professional vocation. And they could not miss, of course, three modes that users can configure their favorite settings.

Last but not least, this EOS offers up to 20 customizable technical options, ranging from the possibility of superimposed images to determine the manner in which the rear wheel.

As good full-frame which is the optical viewfinder is huge compared to what we are accustomed photographers chambers with APS-C sensor. It offers more than 95% coverage, with a clear and sharp image that avoids having to leave the eyes in search of a detail.

Interchangeable with several screens, the EOS 5D offers the viewer a large group of data, from the very important statement to the number of photos that fit into the buffer while shooting on a continuous basis.

At another level, but always talking about the outward appearance of the EOS 5D, we found a bayonet metal EF (EF-S is not, of course) that remains firmly attached to the chassis and has not offered any problems during our tests, including here quick assembly of the powerful 200 mm f1.8 L.

Approaching

The focus of this model is not particularly fast, and shows that the EOS 5D is not a camera in action. Anyway, it is fairly accurate, even in continuous mode.

Our tests have led us to an exciting game of professional basketball and the results have not been at all bad, though they are far-yes-to those achieved with other machines fotoperiodística vocation. In any case, this depends very much on target used, although the use of an optical ultrasonic Canon is not a determining factor so as it could become the EOS-1D Mark II.

CANON EOS 5D

CANON EOS 5D

An important detail is that the EOS 5D adds six additional points of focus, not visible or selectable, which are used for predictive approach continuous-valued and that the movement of the subject to focus on.

The rechargeable Lithium Ion of the EOS 5D, on the other hand, is a small unit that gives the camera an excellent autonomy and can boast a fairly rapid rate of recharge. Although we have not had the opportunity to do a test in laboratory conditions, including the battery not know the number of refills that had already suffered, the tests have proven that eye outstanding.

Deep into the depths

Escaping the shell that identifies it as the most affordable full-frame of the current market, the EOS 5D is armed with a full-size CMOS sensor and 12.8 megapixels of effective resolution. Escorted by a DIGIC II processor, this sensor represents a quantum leap over other cameras theoretically superior, surpassing even that was the first professional full-frame Canon EOS-1Ds.

Highlighted once again that this sensor, being in full format, offers no multiplication factor of the focal. Another consequence is that it’s much easier to find aberrations and distortions in images, because the camera uses the area completely or almost completely of the goal and not just the central part, as do cameras with crop factor.

With an image size of 4368 x 2912 dots, the EOS 5D allows shooting in RAW and JPEG simultaneously or separately, banishing the TIFF standard to the world of oblivion once and for all.

The recording time on the card, though, is nothing fast: 20 seconds are needed to take a new picture after launching a full gust of 17 pictures in RAW, and just over a minute to completely empty the buffer (using CompactFlash cards from Kingston 50x).

That said, the question is who needs 17 consecutive shots in RAW or 60 JPEG photo studio. We also wonder why there is a socket for SD Card, if this was one of the great successes of recent canonical professional models …

However, the difference between using the L series of objectives and goals more than walk home shows, and much. The machine asks quality, before giving quality.

In the chapter of the sensitivity, the EOS 5D offers versatilísimo range from 100 to 1600 ISO, with two-values forced from above and below-allowing extend the range of 50 to 3200 ISO. The electronic noise is a nuisance barely perceptible in this model, with different sensibilities are perfectly usable.

A world in color

The issue of color, very important for a camera with a veneer of living in a studio or at least surrounded by flashes of high caliber, is taken into account in the EOS 5D. Thus, apart from the two color spaces already mentioned, this camera allows for a fine adjustment of color hue, which would certainly correct that many dominant headaches with a computer.

And speaking of colors, a tremendously important parameter is the white balance. The 5D features, how could it be otherwise, a good assortment of pre balances, plus the ability to perform a manual adjustment and the other in scale of degrees Kelvin.

Something loose on the stage with incandescent light, especially with the automatic balance, the EOS 5D can not say that the modes are predetermined his strong point. Anyway, hopefully near a camera as it does not go very far to make a termocolorímetro delight friends and strangers and offer assistance with the scale of degrees Kelvin-perfect color reproduction.

A solid first step

After years using blocks that are not such, it is gratifying to discover how angle is really a 17-mm and everything that we lose because of the factor of cutting chambers of APS-C sensor.

The Canon EOS 5D invited to go through this experience. Their catches are not too sharp, the solution is Retouch-and its shutter speed is not his strong, but certainly offers picture quality, good color, a very high dynamic range and-little-bit electronic noise.

CANON EOS 5D

CANON EOS 5D

Such are their mainstays, and the EOS 5D hardly disappoint in this regard. While it remains somewhat expensive, the first full-frame mid-range could not be economically (although Canon might at least have incorporated handle a series of removable).

A first step as well. We look forward to the second.

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