Saturation are set to obtain vivid colors. The Portrait Style has Color Tone and Saturation set to obtain natural skin tones. Sharpness, one step weaker than in Standard, is kinder to skin. With the Landscape Style, Color Tone and Saturation are set to achieve deep, vivid blues and greens for skies and foliage. The Sharpness is set one step more than Standard so that the outlines of mountains, trees and buildings look crisp. The fourth Style, Neutral, is the same as the default setting for previous EOS-1D series cameras. Natural color reproduction is obtained and no sharpness is applied, anticipating the knowledgeable post-processing for which this setting is ideal. Like Neutral, the Faithful Picture Style applies no sharpening. It is the same as Digital Photo Professional’s Faithful setting. When the subject is photographed under a color temperature of 5200K, the color is adjusted colorimetrically to match the subject’s color, even with JPEG images. Each of these five preset Picture Styles can be altered manually in the menu for Sharpness, Contrast, Color Tone and Saturation, so personal settings are easy to develop.
The sixth Picture Style is Monochrome, identical to the EOS 20D camera’s monochrome setting. Sharpness is preset at 3 and Contrast is at its middle value. Instead of the inappropriate Color Tone and Color Saturation, settings for Filter Effects (None, Yellow, Orange, Red, Green) and Toning Effect (None, Sepia, Blue, Purple, Green) are offered. User defined PC Settings, set with software under development, may become available at release or separately, as may additional, downloadable Picture Styles.
New Automatic and Because noise is difficult to see on a camera’s LCD screen, even one as large and Intelligent Noise detailed as the EOS 5D camera’s, it is hard to know whether noise reduction should be
Reduction Function turned on or not. On the EOS 5D model, C.Fn-2, noise reduction for long exposures, has three settings:On, Off or Auto noise reduction. In Auto with exposures of 1 second or longer, if noise caused by a long exposure or high temperature, such as spotty noise or reddish corners, is detected, noise reduction is performed automatically, regardless of ISO. This setting is highly effective and useful for photographers at all levels.
When C.Fn-2 is set to On, noise reduction is always performed for exposures of 1 second or longer, also regardless of ISO. This setting is most valuable in the uncommon occurrence of noise that cannot be detected automatically, such as that generated by low temperatures.
Like the EOS-1Ds Mark II model, the EOS 5D digital SLR enables continuous shooting even while noise reduction is performed, as long as the buffer memory has room. Cleverly, when shutter speed-priority AE or manual exposure is set and continuous shooting is done at the same shutter speed, noise reduction will be performed in a single process on all shots based on the first shot.
Flexible and Convenient As with EOS-1D cameras, folders in which the images are to be saved can be created Folder Creation and and the image file numbers can also be reset, both through menu selections. The folder
Selection names are appended with the camera name, starting with 100EOS5D and going as high
