General Information; Features; High Precision And High Image Quality; High Performance, High Speed, And Easy Shooting - Canon EOS 20D Service Manual

1. FEATURES

1.1 High precision and high image quality

Newly-developed, large, single-plate CMOS sensor 22.5 × 15.0 mm
Effective angle of view: Equivalent to 1.60 normal EF lens focal length
Effective pixels: Approx. 8.20 megapixels for high precision and high image
quality
DIGIC II imaging engine for high-precision and natural color reproduction at
high speed
Accurate auto white balance
Noise reduction for long exposures

1.2 High performance, high speed, and easy shooting

5 shots/sec. max. continuous shooting speed
Max. burst of approx. 23
* When Canon 512MB CF card is used
High-speed shutter and X-sync with 1/8000 sec. shutter speed and 1/250 sec.
X-sync
Shutter durability improved over the EOS 10D
Startup time approx. 0.2 sec.
When Power Switch is set from Off to On, and startup is completed as SW-1 is
On (ready to shoot).
USB 2.0 Hi-Speed

1.3 High-precision and high-speed 9-point AF

Wide-area, 9-point AF with center AF point sensitive to f/2.8 lenses
AF points positioned near golden section points, and nine AF points for better
subject coverage.
Metering range EV -0.5 to 18
High-speed AF, faster than the EOS 10D's

1.4 Optimum image creation

Six JPEG recording quality modes, RAW, and RAW+JPEG
White balance correction for fine tuning WB
(1) Blue/amber bias and magenta/green bias correction (±9 levels) enabled
(2) Obtains the same filter effects as with LB and CC filters
Improved white balance bracketing
Besides blue/amber bias bracketing, magenta/green bias bracketing also
possible
Parameter 1 for vivid and crisp images set automatically in Basic Zone modes
In Creative Zone modes, Parameter 1 or 2 (standard setting for EOS 10D) can be
set.
Choice of three processing parameters
shots* for Large/Fine and 6 shots for RAW
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General Information