


First, the back of the camera now sports a 3-inch LCD of exceptional quality. However, with the EOS 5D Mark II, Canon has made some small but significant changes to the design of the original EOS 5D. It’s a testament to the quality of the original EOS 5D that it stayed on the market for almost three years before Canon released an update, the new EOS 5D Mark II. Talk to any fan of the EOS 5D (which is mostly anyone who ever used one) and they’ll extol the camera’s ability to shoot images that have a film-like quality, a little something extra. The larger sensor also allows you to achieve a shallower depth of field. When you put a lens on a full-frame camera, it works just as it would if you put it on a 35mm film camera-there is no focal length multiplier like there is when you use a camera with a cropped sensor. Most digital single-lens reflex cameras (SLRs) use a small sensor that “sees” only the middle section of a lens, effectively giving your lens a crop that’s equivalent to a lens with a longer focal length. In December 2005, Canon released the EOS 5D, a revolutionary camera that offered a full-frame sensor (that is, a sensor that’s the same size as a piece of 35mm film) for around $3,000.
