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In Celebration of the Canon 5D

Chris Gampat
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Last updated on 07/28/2025
07/28/2025
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Last Updated on 07/28/2025 by Chris Gampat

Today, the Canon 5D turns 20 years old. It’s crazy to think that in 2005 the camera was born. I was graduating high school and going into college when wedding photographers everywhere were picking up the first of an iconic camera that would make them commit to Canon DSLRs for years. The first camera in this series had a full-frame 35mm-film sized sensor that boasted modest megapixels and gave photographers a film-like look to their images. The 5D was the digital version of the EOS 5, born in 1992 (and also lacking from Canon’s announcement today.) The spirit of this series lives on in the Canon EOS R5 II today.

When I started the Phoblographer, I did it using the Canon 5D Mk II. For several years, the 5D series always introduced some sort of awesome technology that photographers loved.

  • The Canon 5D gave us film-like high ISOs
  • The 5D Mk II gave us 1080p HD video
  • The 5D Mk III gave us in-camera multiple exposure modes and much more
  • The 5Ds is still, to this current day of publishing Canon’s highest resolution camera
  • The 5D Mk IV gave us very low light autofocus abilities
  • The EOS R5 gave us in-body image stabilization and wireless RAW file transfer to Capture One
  • The Canon EOS R5 II gave us more video features than stills-based features

By all means, it’s been the standard for working professional photographers for many years now. In fact, it’s also Flickr’s most popular camera right now.

In recent years, younger photographers have been reaching for older 5D series cameras because they want a different look that isn’t super highly manicured.

Canon surely has a lot to celebrate with this camera. Though at the same time, I yearn for even more. The company tends to go through phases of lots of innovation and then stagnation. With today’s world and AI working to replace photographers as much as it can, I truly wish that Canon could give the R5 series even more power. For example, I wish they would bring multiple exposure with RAW back, add even more in-camera editing tools, create their own platform with presets, etc. There are also several darkroom techniques that I wish that could be done in-camera these days with the powerful processors inside.

A big congratulations goes out to Canon for all that they’ve done. But at the same time, I hope that they give photographers even more. Specifically, I’m talking about photographers.

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.
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