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This is a professional camera with professional features. One of the most amazing features is the 8.5 frames per second capture speed. The resolution is magnificent, and detail excellent at speeds up to ISO800 or so, after that a little noise is noticable.

I moved up from the EOS 10D (keeping this as my back-up camera), and the difference is instantly noticable in start-up speed, speed of general operation, review, write times on and on.

Takes a bit of getting used to the slightly different menu operation after the 10D, but apart from that, it's quite familiar.

One nice feature is the way you can put in two memory cards, either as a 'reserve tank' feature, or as a backup, writing to both cards simultaneously.

Combine this camera with Canon's L series lenses for a truly amazing bit of kit.

I've had this camera for about a month having upgraded from the 10D - that I have kept as a backup body.
The quality of photographs is excellent - As I don't print larger that A4 I find that JPEG M1 setting enough. The JPEG is so good that the RAW facility (that involves a lot of work in Photoshop) is really unnecessary.
The controls whilst different from the 10D are easy to use and intuitive.
I use the second card SD to save and restore custom setups.
The only gripe is that only one set up can be saved per card so it is necessary to buy several small capacity SD cards - but this is very cheap. The benefits of this are obvious where the camera is shared.
The A1 servo mode has two speeds 4 fps & 8.5-the latter beinglike a machine gun!!! Great for sport.
All in all a superb camera - well worth the money.