My personal camera, a Canon 5D Mark II digital SLR along with two high-end lenses, takes great pictures and is easier to use than the Leica kit that I tried.

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That's essentially what you can do with the Canon 5D Mark III -- with a top sensitivity of ISO 102, 400, what was once unfathomable could soon become an acceptable standard.

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Sitting in the back of a school bus, the filmmakers, using a Canon 5D Mark II, which looks like a still camera, managed to shoot a rubbery little heavyweight beating Alex.

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Well, the Canon 5D Mark II, a 27-inch Dell display, a 1TB Western Digital portable hard drive and a handsome discount on Adobe Photoshop Elements 11 all visit the list.

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They can record video clips for 29 minutes and 59 seconds at a time, a marked improvement from the 12-minute limitations on many Canon SLRs, including the 5D Mark II and video-capable Rebel cameras.

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It's been obvious from day one that it was possible, but after a couple of years of oh-so-painful 30 FPS recording on the EOS 5D Mark II, Canon is finally coming through with its long-promised 2.0.3 update that brings 29.97 FPS and 24 FPS (23.976, to be precise) 1080p recording at last.

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We spent two glorious weeks with a pre-production 5D Mark III before reluctantly shipping it back to Canon.

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Canon was showing off their new 12.8 megapixel EOS 5D DSLR they've garnered so much hubbub about lately, as well as their HDV High Definition XL H1 they announced this week.

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