This report is part of my ongoing evaluation of the remarkableCanon EOS 1Dsdigital SLR, that company's first full-frame digital camera, with an 11MP CMOS imaging sensor. I was the first person in the world to publish a hands-on review of the 1Ds. It appears on this site as afive part reportand also inIssue #6ofThe Video Journal. A more formal version of this review is also published in the Jan / Feb 2003 issue ofPhoto Techniques Magazine. You will also find the first part of my testing of a full production camera in an article titledWorking Field Notes.This page is a continuation of that report based on a 4 day wildlife and landscape workshop which I conducted in early December, 2002 — just a week or so after receiving my production 1Ds. Testing is one thing. Shooting 17 Gigabytes worth of files in the real world over a long weekend is another.Here then is a report on my experiences and impressions using the 1Ds as well as images and notes related to the shooting situation.

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