Once upon a time, a kind soul lent me his Canon 5D to shoot a wedding.  When i compared the files of the 5D with those from my 40D, my thought was, “God willing, i will someday have a full-frame camera.”

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By His grace, some three years and two generations later, i now have a 5D.  Twice the resolution of the original, several stops improvement in signal-to-noise [read: can near-‘bout shoot in the dark], and spectacular HD video capability.  That's the billing, at least.  Time will tell if it's hype.  A comment in Jeff Ascough's review gives one such as me sobering food for thought, "So are there any negatives to owning this camera? Maybe just one. You will lose the ability to blame the camera for any shortcomings in your own photographic ability.” 

Pictures?  Not yet.  I will be spending a little time playing with the new toy tool, and working toward updating my software…none of which can yet open the RAW files from the new camera.  (RAW files are unique to a specific camera model, and this model is brand new.)

Grateful and glad,

king