Canon EOS-1D Mark II Digital Camera Review

September 18, 2006

Photographer’s friend

The world is moving very quickly in the field of digital imaging and let it be a professional photographer or a beginner, the new Canon EOS-1D Mark II digital camera gives you good quality images you can treasure all through your life. The new Canon EOS-1D Mark II digital camera is an 8.2 mega pixel camera and it has been designed specially for reportage photographers making it a very integral tool for taking snaps of sports. The images taken with this camera offers images with good quality and its 8.5 frames per second and its 48 frame JPEG burst gives you images with exceptional quality and clarity. The camera features a 2.5 inch TFT active matrix LCD display screen at the rear side of the camera that supports 230K pixels and this LCD screen is viewable up to 85 degrees in almost all directions. The Canon EOS-1D Mark II digital camera supports auto focus and also 45 auto focus points. The camera comes with an external flash with E-TTL II with EX series Speedlites wireless multi-flash support. The camera also supports various flash modes, supports flash exposure lock and a lot more of flash functions. Additional features of the camera include:

Self-timer

Image erase protection

Histogram

Playback zoom

PC terminal

Hot shoe flash terminal

Microphone

PictBridge direct printing

Audio recording

Auto power save

Digital noise reduction

Date and time stamp

Multiple menu languages

The Canon EOS-1D Mark II digital camera also is also compatible with Digital Photo Professional software that is the image manipulation software used. Other supporting software’s are Zoom Browser EX or Image Browser, Photo stitch, remote capture, and the supporting operating system of the device are Windows 98SE, Windows 2000, Windows ME or Windows XP. The body of the Canon EOS-1D Mark II digital camera is made of magnesium alloy and it weighs almost 1225 grams. Besides its rich features the appearance of this digital camera is also very attractive and its black colour adds to this. The fact that the camera is water resistant and dust resistant is another added advantage of the camera.

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