Canon’s new 5d Mk II is its newest and most expensive camera to date (priced at$2,500 at that). It takes extremely nice pictures and video but a lot of customers are claiming that black dots appear in the images.
According to the press release, the black dot phenomenon can occur while shooting night scenes, and appear on the right side of point light. Apparently, the dots aren’t as noticeable in snapshots, but become very pronounced as images are either enlarged on a monitor or, when enlargement prints are made. The vertical banding issue apparently only rears its ugly head when the image quality is set to “sRAW1.” “RAW,” “sRAW2” and “JPEG” images are not affected. Meanwhile, 5D Mk. II owners can reduce the noise by adjusting the C.Fn II-3 and setting the highlight tone priority to 0: Disable.
We hope that Canon does something about this soon…
