Nature Photography and the Canon EOS 1D

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Much has been written about how the Canon EOS 1D is aimed squarely at photojournalists and does not address the needs of the nature photographer. Well, after a few weeks of owning the 1D and putting it through its paces, I am happy to report that this is just not the case and am ready to retire my EOS 1v to a backup role. Lets examine the facts. The EOS 1D is basically an EOS 1v with a 4.48 Mega-pixel digital back. The 1D retains all of the qualities of the 1v including a super fast frame rate at 8.3 FPS (Canon claims 8 FPS but several independent test labs have confirmed it to actually be 8.3 FPS), the excellent AF system, the Canon evaluative metering system, ETTL flash, 45 point active Auto-focusing, and of course compatibility with the excellent line of Canon EF lenses including lenses with image stabilization at every focal length from 28mm to 600mm.

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The image sensor in the 1D is slightly smaller than the standard 35mm frame resulting in a 1.3x magnification level for the equivalent focal length. This is a boon for the wildlife shooter as shots taken with a 1.4x teleconverter on a traditional 35mm camera can be taken with no teleconverter on the 1D and you don’t lose the stop of light that a traditional teleconverter loses. Similarly, where you had to use a 2x teleconverter before, you can usually get away with the 1.4x now resulting in an effective 1.8x magnification factor but with only one stop of light lost instead of two. Of course on the wide angle end, this can pose a problem as the popular 24 and 28mm wide angle lenses become the 35mm equivalent of 31mm and 36mm respectively. Fortunately Canon has addressed this with the excellent new EF 16- 35mm f/2.8L lens, which results in an equivalent 21mm focal length at the wide end. If you need to go even wider, there is the EF 14mm f/2.8L lens that has the equivalent focal length of 18mm on the EOS 1D - this should be wide enough for the vast majority of landscape photos.
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