Canon 1D MarkII Review

Introduction

After 10 years of shooting with film single lens reflexes (SLR) from Minolta (7000, 7xi et 700si) and in absence of digital SLR from that company, I decided last year to sell all my equipement and switch to Canon for the 10D. After thousands of photographies takes with my Canon 10D, I decided to migrate to a more reactive camera, the Canon 1D MarkII. After waiting for two months, I finally received my body and this my impresssion after two weeks of use and half a thoushand pictures.

This report reflects my personal opinion. I have no financial interests with Canon.

Unlesss specified, all the photographies are converting and scaled into JPEG with Photoshoip and Camerarwa 2.2 plug-in from the RAW2 files, No other manipulations are performed.

Technical Specifications

A detailed and extensive Technical Data Sheet of this camera is available on Canon's website. I will describe shortly what I considered as the most relevant featurees: 1.6 kg, 8.5 pictures/s (up to 20 pictures RAW or 40 pictures JPEG), 8.3 Mo pixels, pixels with a 8.2 um diameter, focal conversion factor 1.3x, sensibility between 50 and 3200 ISO (in extanded ISO mode) by steps of 1/3, two card slots: 1 Compact Flash (CF) I/II and 1 SD, 2 processors DIGIGII and a NP-E3 12V battery for 1200 pictures at 20°C (Canon data).