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popphoto.com - 12/16/2008
Canon EOS 5D Mark II: Test - - PopPhotoDecember 2008
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Let's cut to the chase -- the Canon EOS 5D Mark II does live up to its billing. It takes a great full-frame DSLR, the original 5D (Pop Photo's 2005 Camera of the Year), boosts damn near everything, adds high-definition video capture, and turns in an overall performance that makes it a virtual ...

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glubsch.wordpress.com - 12/13/2008
EOS 5D Mark II: The ‘Black Dot’ Phenomenon
— glubsch.wordpress.com — My noise behavior photos have stirred quite some interest. I’ve uploaded these photos to my new blog on the day the camera was released to the public. After pixel peeping, someone has discovered black dots right beside blown-outs. If they show, ... (more) EOS 5D Mark II: The ‘Black Dot’ Phenomenon

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Canon 5D Mark II Reviewed: Lives Up to the Incredible Hype [Canon 5D Mark II]
Gizmodo — Pop Photo is one of the first to pop out a full review of Canon's wunderkamera, the 5D Mark II, and says that it "does live up to its billing" and is "a virtual steal." The image quality, thankfully, is as good as we'd been led to believe, delivering the huge megapixel count of Sony's A900 and matches the clean images of Nikon's D700, both scoring 2.0 in Pop Photo's noise test at ISO 6400. In other words, "Such high resolution and ISOs will change your photography." Video footage is "beautiful" (though we already knew that). The bad? The most ...

Canon EOS 5D Mark II review roundup
Engadget — ... low-light performance was simply awesome. Hailed as a respectable upgrade from the original 5D, it was found to strike "a great balance between resolution, quality and performance," and most outlets found it worthwhile even if you're not interested in capturing video. Frankly, we can't even begin to scratch the surface of all the nuances here, but we'll certainly point you in the right directions to get all the knowledge you need. Read - PhotographyBLOG (5 out of 5) Read - PopPhoto ("lives up to the hype") Read - ArtByPhil ("an amazing deal") ...

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