The Canon 1D mark2 is professional level 'Sports' camera capable of imaging at an amazing 8 8 MPixel frames per sec. It features a large 28.7 x 19.1mm CMOS sensor (1.3 crop) divided into 8.2 micron square pixels. For a complete review of this camera please click this link.

Jerry Lodriguss has kindly supplied raw files from his Canon 1D mark2 for this analysis. The images and histograms were generated by Christian Buil's IRIS program.

In summary Read Noise was calculated at 7 e- RMS (ISO800) and dark current estimated at 0.3 e-/pixel/sec at 71F ( 22C ).