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Detail from the new sensor is excellent, especially at the lower ISOs, while tonal gradation, colour accuracy when shooting Raw, white balance accuracy and ISO performance are all highly impressive too.

Faster cards have three advantages: they can shoot longer bursts at 4.5 FPS, clear the picture buffer more quickly, and fulfill Canon's write speed requirement of 20 MB/s to record video at the highest quality.

Needless to say the Mark II quickly became a firm favourite, not only with still photographers drawn by its fantastic image quality but also video enthusiasts (and indeed professional film and TV production companies) who were keen to exploit the creative opportunities provided by the Mark II’s class-leading (at the time) video abilities and Canon’s vast lens universe.

The Movie button can be configured either to function in any shooting mode, or restricted to be active only when the mode dial is set to movie mode.

The beauty of a high megapixel camera is that it makes your pictures better at the same megapixel size as your last camera!

I found I would knock the mode dial out of manual quite often, especially when shooting video, so this is a nice plus.

Even the Canon xxD series are able to shoot continuously with their built-in-flash, up to a point.

Battery life is so good I sometimes forget to charge them up.

This camera takes fabulous photos and HD videos.