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FIRST LOOK
SPECS
Canon EOS 5DS At £3000 for the body, Canon’s latest DSLR isn’t cheap, but after sampling a pre-production model Roger Payne has already got a kidney on eBay
PRICE EOS 5DS £2999.99, EOS 5DS R £3199.99 body only CONTACT www.canon.co.uk SENSOR 50.6 megapixels (total: 53), CMOS, 36x24mm, 8688x5792 pixels PROCESSOR 100-6400 (expandable down to 50 and up to 12,800) SHUTTER 30secs-1/8000sec, plus B MAX FRAME RATE 5fps for up to 510 JPEGs or 14 Raw files METERING SYSTEM 150,000 pixel RGB+IR Dual DIGIC 6 ISORANGE (1.3%), centre-weighted EXPOSUREMODES Scene Intelligent Auto, program AE, shutter- priority AE, aperture- priority AE, manual, Custom x3 EXPOSURE COMPENSATION +/-5EV in 0.3 or 0.5EV stops, AEB 2, 3, 5 or 7 shots, +/-3EV in 0.3 or 0.5EV stops AUTOFOCUSMODES AI focus, one shot, predictive AI servo FOCUSING POINTS 61 MONITOR Fixed 3.2in, 1040k dot resolution VIDEO Full HD at 30p STORAGEMEDIA Dual card slots: CompactFlash (UDMA 7 compatible), SD, SDHC, SDXC DIMENSIONS (WXHXD) 152x116.4x76.4mm WEIGHT 845g (body only) sensor. Evaluative, partial (6.1%), spot
upshot? Even sharper pictures, allegedly. Much like a stripped-out sports car, you pay more for what is effectively less in the 5DS R; approximately £500 more, to be precise. Although a number of pros have been secretly using the new camera, I first got to grips with both models at the UK press announcement last month. While these can often be a bunfight, with only a couple of new models between a room full of journalists, Canon had a sensible allocation, enabling me to build up a proper picture of the camera.
capable 70D, but this was hardly enough to get the blood coursing through the veins of your serious photo enthusiast. But it turns out those Canon guys had been teasing us all along as, hot on the heels of the really rather spectacular 7D Mark II, we’ve got this: the EOS 5DS. Oh, and the 5DS R, of course. The only difference between the two is the fact that the 5DS R features a low-pass cancellation filter. This doesn’t mean that the low-pass filter has been removed from in front of the sensor, just that its effect is cancelled out. The
Words by Roger Payne
Is it just me, or are Canon producing exciting DSLRs again? Maybe the company had become the victim of its own product life cycles, but I can’t help thinking that the prosumer section of their product line-up has been moving a little glacially of late. We’d had the Canon EOS 5D Mark III, of course, but that was in 2012 and we had to wait until late 2014 before the 7D Mark II arrived. In between we’d had the perfectly
A big change over the 5DMark III? EOS 5DS or 5D Mark III? Our at-a-glance guide to key aspects of both models’ specifications should give you some pointers:
5D MARK III
5DS
RESOLUTION
22.3 megapixels
50.6 megapixels
NATIVE ISO RANGE
100-25,600
100-6400
PROCESSOR
DIGIC 5+
Dual DIGIC 6
MAXIMUM FRAME RATE
6fps
5fps
CONTINUOUS BURST CAPABILITY
18 Raw, 16270 JPEGs
14 Raw, 510 JPEGs
METERING
63-zone dual-layer SPC
150k pixel RGB+IR sensor
AF POINTS
61
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MAX. VIDEO FRAME RATE
30p
30p
CARD SLOTS
2
2
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