Canon 5D Mark II - 35mm f/1.4L - ISO 200

I’m calling them “snaps” because I don’t really consider them portfolio-worthy.  I’m just starting play around and experiment with the various types of shots I usually take with my camera, and seeing how they turn out on the 5D Mark II.  

The ones from  the other night were all at high ISO.  Now today, with the sun out, I tried out the lower ISO settings where sharpness, detail and tonal depth are maximized.  

One of the more immediate things I noticed about the 5D Mark II photos were that they’re noticeably sharper and more detailed.  I guess that’s a “duh” given the resolution jump from 12.7 megapixels to 21.1 megapixels.  But megapixels are not the entire story.  You can get more details with more megapixels, but cramming more pixels in a sensor also can cause the total image quality to degrade due to signal noise and interference from the increasingly smaller pixel sensor sites next to each other.   So Canon had the difficult task of increasing the megapixel count over the original 5D – all the while keeping in mind that the 5D was highly regarded among shooters for its incredible image quality.  So they had to keep that at least just as good. 

Did they succeed? I don’t know yet.  I need to take more test shots and find out.  I’m sure over the next few months I’ll be able to formulate a feeling once I get more comfortable with shooting this new camera.