Suhit Gupta
03-30-2004, 05:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/cameras/canon-1d-mkii.shtml' target='_blank'>http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/cameras/canon-1d-mkii.shtml</a><br /><br /></div>Luminous-Landscape has posted a review on the latest member of the Canon EOS 1 series. They say - "The newest member of the Series I family is the 1D Mark II. Announced in early February 2004, this latest Canon DSLR is to start shipping to photographers in early April. In mid-March Canon sent me a full production camera for testing, just a few days before I was scheduled to do a wildlife shoot in Nebraska. What better venue than shooting birds in the wild to test out this new high-speed camera."<br /><br /><img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/canon_eos1dmkii.gif" /><br /><br />I especially like this review since it has a short geneology of the EOS 1 series, which puts the Mark II in perspective. Of notable mention is the camera's ability to couple high speed shooting with the large image size. The camera is capable of 8.5 FPS for up to 40 frames in large/fine JPG mode, or 20 frames in RAW mode. Additionally, the processor that performs autofocus on the Mark II is rated as being twice as fast as that on the original 1D. For more information on this 8MP piece of goodness, I recommend reading this review :).