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Canon EOS-1D
Canon's Pro Digital SLR
 
October 6, 2001
I had an opportunity yesterday to spend some time handling a pre-production sample of theEOS-1D. My first impression is that Canon certainly got the ergonomics right. Imagine the offspring of a mating between anEOS-1Vand aD30and you have some impression of what this new camera is like in the flesh.
"Robust" is a good word to start with in any attempt to describe the way it falls to hand. I've been using theEOS-1Vfor a couple of years now and have nothing but praise for its "all-of-a-piece" handling. The1Dmatches this and adds the new dimension of digital file management, all with apparently the same level...

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