Nelson Minar

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February 27, 2006, on Canon EOS 5D Review:
Thanks for the article! One thing you didn't mention as an advantage over the 350D is that the viewfinder in the 5D has a much larger image. For me, that's the most compelling reason to buy the camera. After looking through a 5D my 350D viewfinder feels like a tiny dark tunnel. One correction; you say "you could pull out the central 8 MP of a 5D image and it would be almost as though you had taken the photo with a Canon 30D or Digital Rebel." I wish that were true, but it's not. The area of the 5D 35mm sensor is about 2.6 times the area of the 350D APS-C sensor, but there's only 1.5 times as many megapixels. Alas I only went to the MIT Media Lab so I can't do the math to tell you exactly how far you can crop a 5D picture and retain the same resolution, but there's not enough pixels to match the 350D's higher density sensor. I still agree that full frame sensors are better in every way, though. For a single zoom lens, the Tamron 28-75 f/2.8 makes an inexpensive and light alternativ...