as 999EOS5D. Any folder can be selected for saved images, except during playback. Up to 9999 images can be saved in a folder, as opposed to 100 in the EOS 20D camera. Folders are created automatically if the file number reaches 9999 or if the CF card does not have a Design rule for Camera File-system compliant (DCIM) folder.
Folder creation/selection screen
Ultra-preciseThe EOS 5D digital SLR has an extensive and highly accurate set of white balance White Balance controls and adjustments. First, it has nine types of white balance: Auto (which uses
the AWB algorithm of the EOS-1Ds Mark II model), Daylight (approx. 5,200K), Shade (approx. 7,000K), Cloudy/Twilight/Sunset (approx. 6,000K), Tungsten light (approx. 3200K), White Fluorescent light (approx. 4,000K), Flash (approx. 6,000K), Custom (Take a picture of a white subject serving as the white balance standard; then set “Custom WB” mode on the on-screen menu to specify that image) and Color Temperature (set manually from 2,800K to 10,000K in 100 degree increments).
The color temperature of all nine white balance modes listed here can be adjusted or corrected (using the Multi-controller, pushable in all directions) in +/- 9 levels of blue/amber bias and +/- 9 levels of magenta/green bias. White balance correction can fine tune color within the range from 2,000K to 10,000K.
White balance bracketing of up to +/- 3 stops in whole-stop increments can be implemented with a single shutter release. (When WB-BKT is set, the “shots remaining” will decrease to about one third the normal number.) Either blue/amber or magenta/ green bracketing is possible separately. White balance correction and auto exposure bracketing can also be set in combination with white balance bracketing, in which case nine images will be saved to the CF card (with commensurately extended write times). Significantly on the EOS 5D model, white balance bracketing can be used with RAW and RAW+JPEG shots.
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Extensive Exposure Control | The EOS 5D Digital SLR uses the same 35-zone metering |
| sensor as the EOS 20D, but it has metering functions on |
| a par with the EOS 1D Series. The sensor and the | | |
| metering optics are positioned behind the pentaprism |
| with the metering lens magnification set to obtain the |
| optimum correlation between the nine AF points and the |
Metering zones
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