Hands-On With the Canon EOS 1Ds

"It might seem odd, more than a year-and-a-half after its release to do a hands-on review of the Canon EOS 1Ds. After all, the popularity of the flagship Canon digital camera has garnered it much attention, and the body has found its way into the bags of countless Canon shooters, despite the still-astronomical retail price.

But that's precisely the reason why we've chosen the 1Ds as the inaugural product in our hands-on product testing column. More than a year after its release, many of Canon's chief competitors are still without a camera that directly matches the specifications of the 1Ds. In many ways the camera is the benchmark against which other cameras are judged.
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