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After a week or so of teaser ads Canon has finally unveiled the successor to the venerable EOS 5D, the world’s first ‘compact’ full-frame digital SLR. The EOS 5D Mark II has a new 21MP CMOS sensor, an extensive ISO range of 50-25600 and a wealth of improvements and new features, including full 1080p HD recording of the film, live view, 3.0 “920k dot LCD, DIGIC IV processor, increased battery capacity and the sensor to reduce dust. UPDATE: Body-only prices: U.S.: $ 2699, EU: € 2499, UK: £ 2299.

Compact, lightweight environmental protection, successor EOS 5D has a newly designed Canon CMOS sensor with a sensitivity up to ISO 25600 for shooting in near dark conditions. The new DIGIC 4-processor combines with the improved CMOS sensor to deliver territory medium format image quality in 3.9 frames per second, up to 310 frames.

Generated from Live View Mode, HD video capture enables users to shoot continuously at full resolution at 30 fps 1080 – for stunning quality images with an excellent level of detail and realism.

The integration of the HD movie is a high-end 21.1-megapixel camera opens up a wide range of new possibilities for photo journalists and news photographers. With its full frame CMOS sensor and an excellent ISO performance, the EOS 5D Mark II will rely on a photographer looking for the best camera equipment is available – from the studio and marriage with nature and travel photographers.
Other improvements include the EOS 5D

* Addition of Canon’s EOS Integrated Cleaning System, with a new Fluor coating on the low-pass filter
* Large 3.0 “Clear View LCD with VGA resolution, a 170 ° angle of the eye and anti-reflective coating
* Improved menu system, including Quick Control Screen for more direct access to the common institutions
* Automatic lighting peripheral correction, using EF lens detailed information to optimize JPEG images directly from the camera
* Magnesium alloy construction with extra protection of the environment
* UDMA memory card compatibility.

“Professional photographers and photo journalists weddings already opt for the EOS 5D for its discrete size and excellent image quality,” said Mogens Jensen, head of Canon Consumer Imaging. “The addition of an HD-recording of the film opens a new chapter for EOS. It creates new opportunities for the EOS photographers to capture and share their stories and to remain relevant in a rapidly changing digital landscape.”

Main specifications:

* New 21.1 megapixel CMOS sensor with an improved EOS Integrated Cleaning System (EIC)
* New 1080 Full HD resolution recording of the film
* 3.9 frames per second continuous shooting
* High performance DIGIC 4 offer superb image quality
* Up to 310 large JPEG images in a burst with a UDMA card
* 3.0 “VGA (920k dots) Clear View LCD
* ISO 100-6400 (extension of 50-25600)
* 9-point AF AF Assist + 6 points

Additional information

New CMOS sensor
The EOS 5D Mark II’s newly designed full-frame 21.1 megapixel CMOS sensor features sensitivity of ISO 100-6400, expandable to 50, 12800 and 25600. Large 6.4?m2 pixels are redesigned to more light and provide a better signal to noise ratio for lower noise images throughout the ISO range. The full-frame sensor has the same dimensions as a frame of 35mm film. This means that wide-angle lenses stay wide, without the change in viewing angle associated with smaller sensor cameras. Like qualify for finer control over the depth, photographers move to the EOS 5D Mark II full-frame format, the newly designed broad, bright viewfinder 98% coverage on a joy to work with.

4 new DIGIC processor
A new 4-DIGIC processor, combined with 14-bit analog to digital conversion offers smooth mono-tonal gradations in areas such as skies and very accurate color rendition. In addition to HD movies, DIGIC 4, the high speed for long uninterrupted continuous eruptions of large JPEGs, near-instant start-up time and the immediate and speedy review after shooting. DIGIC 4 also provides for improved noise reduction algorithms, in addition to the already low noise images from the EOS 5D Mark II, the CMOS sensor.

HD video capture
The EOS 5D Mark II is Canon’s first D-SLR to take full HD 1920×1080 video capture. Once filming starts from the Live View mode, photographers can fire off single or continuous stills, with video capture continued after the last recording is captured.

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A new 3.0 “VGA-resolution LCD screen offers a wide 170 º angle-of-view, offer much clarity for accurate focusing controls in the view. The brightness of the display can automatically adjust to viewing conditions, prolonging the life of the battery in low light and improve viewing in bright conditions. A new special Live View button switch modes there appears a real-time image on the LCD. This makes EOS 5D Mark II photographers to enjoy the simplified shooting from awkward angles. Easy connection to a PC is easy distance shooting.

Precision focus and metering
A 9-point autofocus system is supported by 6 additional invisible Assist AF points located inside the spot-metering circle next object to optimize performance in AI SERVO AF mode. For accurate exposure readings in difficult light conditions, spot metering circle covers only 3.5% of the frame.

Control
The EOS 5D Mark II revamped the menu system includes a new Quick Control screen for direct access to the most changed settings. A new Creative Auto mode allows photographers to cede control of the main settings on the camera, while simultaneously controlling variables such creative background blur, drive mode and image brightness. Customized user settings allow photographers to switch between two completely different camera setups. This is ideal for quickly changing between two different environments, such as switching from working within a church without flash outdoors with fill-flash at a wedding.

Accessories
Shooting flexibility of the program is expanded with a series of new accessories. Shooting capacity can be expanded to include both the high-capacity lithium-ion 1800mAh Battery Pack LP-E6, or Battery Grip BG-E6.

A new optional Wireless File Transmitter –
the WFT-E4 – provides external HDD and GPS compatibility, along with the ability to save images directly onto a computer or FTP server, or operating the camera wirelessly. Both the BG-E4-E6 and WFT feature a vertical shutter release orientation and other essential controls for portrait work comfortably, with a strong grip to help balance the camera when used in combination with long lenses.

Presentation Technologies:

CMOS
Canon’s CMOS technology is one of the company is the main competitive advantages, with noise reduction circuitry at each pixel site delivers virtually noise-free images. Compared with the CCD technology, the lower power consumption characteristics of Canon’s CMOS sensors also contribute to longer battery life.

Signal conversion in Canon’s CMOS sensors is handled by individual amplifiers at each pixel site. Unnecessary charge transfer operations are avoided, greatly accelerate the process to signal to the image processor. Noise generation is reduced, power consumption is limited and faster frame rate potential is increased.

DIGIC
Image data captured by the CMOS sensor is processed by Canon’s DIGIC image processor specially built before being written to the camera memory card. DIGIC technology uses an advanced image processing algorithms to provide accurate, natural colors, accurate white balance, and advanced noise reduction. Ultra-fast processing speeds result in a highly responsive camera operation and near-instant start-up time.

DIGIC chips operate with a high-speed DDR SDRAM image buffer – reading, processing, compressing and writing image data fast enough to clear the buffer during continuous shooting long bursts. And since DIGIC integrates all major functions, power consumption to a minimum.

EOS Integrated Cleaning System
The EOS Integrated Cleaning System combats dust on the sensor in three important ways: Reduce, Repel and Remove.

* Reduce – Internal camera mechanisms are designed to dust. The new cap prevents dust generation through wear on the cap itself.
* Repel – Anti-static technologies, including a special fluorine coating, applied to the low-pass filter that the front of the sensor, so there is no substance to attract.
* Remove – A Self-Cleaning Sensor Unit uses hi-frequency vibrations to shake the dust from the infrared filter for a period of about one second after each start. For instant shooting after power up, this feature is disabled immediately the shutter release button is pressed.

Canon also has an internal Dust Delete Data system that can map the position of visible dust on the sensor. This can then be deleted automatically after the shoot with the latest Digital Photo Professional software.

Picture Style
Picture Style pre-sets simplify in-camera control over image qualities. Picture Style pre-sets can be seen as different types of film – each a different color provision of a reaction. Within each selectable pre-set, photographers have control over sharpness, contrast, color saturation and tint. The camera’s factory default configuration is set to immediately usable JPEG images without need for additional menu settings. Picture Style presets applied to a RAW image can be revised with Canon’s Digital Photo Professional software.

The six pre-sets are:

* Standard – crisp, vivid images that no post-processing
* Portrait – optimizes the color hue and saturation and weakens sharpening to attractive skin tones
* Landscape – for punchier greens and blues with stronger sharpening to an edge on the crunchy mountains, tree and building lines
* Neutral – ideal for post-processing
* Faithful – adjusts color match with the subject in color when shooting under a color temperature of 5200K
* Monochrome – for black and white photograph with a range of filter effects (yellow, orange, red and green) and toning effects (sepia, blue, purple and green).

Software
Digital Photo Professional software
Digital Photo Professional software provides high speed and high quality processing of lossless RAW images. Processing with Digital Photo Professional provides real-time display and immediate application of image adjustments, which control over RAW image variables such as white balance, dynamic range, exposure compensation, noise reduction and color tone – plus the ability to Auto Focus points on a picture. The Lens Aberration correction tool allows precise correction of various types of disturbances caused by certain cameras. Images can be incorporated into the camera with sRGB or Adobe RGB color space.

Digital Photo Professional supports sRGB, Adobe RGB, RGB Color Match, Apple RGB and Wide Gamut RGB color range supports. ICC (International Color Consortium) profiles can be attached to TIFF or JPEG images when converted from RAW. This allows faithful reproduction of colors in software applications that support ICC profiles, such as Adobe Photoshop. To improve efficiency, a set of image adjustments can be saved as a recipe and applied.

EOS Utility
The latest version of EOS Utility provides essential support for Remote Live View shooting, camera configuration and the image transfers. Closely integrated with Digital Photo Professional, EOS Utility can be configured to monitor “hot topics” and rename folders automatically move incoming images in a structured file system. Users can also tag their images with EXIF data, including information about copyrights.

Picture Style Editor
Picture Style Editor enables users to individual Picture Styles that fit with their personal needs. Every Picture Style contains detailed information about how specific colors should be represented in an image. Once new Picture Styles are created, they can be uploaded directly into the camera and applied to JPEG or RAW images. When working with RAW files in DPP, both personally Picture Styles and the 6 predetermined Picture Styles can all be adjusted.