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Canon 5D Mark II

Shooting Full HD with SLR Advantages

With more professional still photographers taking on crossover video shooting assignments, the EOS 5D Mark II fills a growing need. As a Canon EOS camera, you can use the entire range of EF lenses. And because the EOS 5D Mark II features a full-frame sensor, you don’t have to concern yourself with conversion (crop) factors, thus maximizing your control of factors such as depth-of-field. Superb video quality is ensured by 14-bit A/D converters, ensuring smoother tonal transitions and more natural gradations. Tonal reproduction is further enhanced by the Highlight Tone Priority feature, preserving greater detail in image highlight areas. Dynamic range is effectively expanded in this critical range of exposure, making gradations smoother and minimizing loss of highlight detail. The EOS 5D Mark II delivers video and still images of stunning quality. Captured images exhibit low noise, ensuring exceptional playback clarity, detail and color purity. It also provides outstanding low-noise performance even when shooting at higher ISO settings, making possible high-quality capture in a wider range of light conditions.

Simplified Custom Camera Settings

Picture Style provides a number of presets that eliminate the need to make numerous individual changes to camera settings. The EOS 5D Mark II provides six factory preset styles and three additional custom presets. The Picture Style you select for the Live View mode is used for video recording. Therefore, all settings registered in that Picture style — such as sharpness, color saturation, etc. — will be reflected in the captured video footage.

Tough and Dependable

The EOS 5D Mark II body is made of magnesium alloy, making it exceptionally strong and durable, yet lightweight. The body is also extensively fitted with seals and gaskets to keep out moisture and dust. Rugged build quality is augmented by the Canon Self Cleaning Sensor Unit removing dust on the imaging sensor using ultrasonic vibration. A fluorine coating on the front surface low-pass filter also helps prevent the accumulation of sticky and moist dust particles.

Rapid, Responsive Still Shooting

A high-performance shutter assembly, fast autofocus system, advanced CMOS sensor, and state-of-the-art DIGIC 4 Image Processor combine to make the EOS 5D Mark II a nimble, responsive camera. Despite the huge amount of data associated with 14-bit, 21.1 Megapixel image capture, the EOS 5D Mark II can shoot continuously at 3.9 fps. Shooting speed is also enhanced by UDMA (Ultra Direct Memory Access) CF cards compatibility, which enables you to use the newer, faster UDMA CF cards.

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