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Canon EOS 5D Mark II

How 1,302 real photos from this camera were shot — and how they were edited in Lightroom.

Aggregated from photos analyzed on PixelPeeper · no spec sheets, only observed behavior

#29
most analyzed of 105 cameras
f/3.5
median aperture
ISO 320
median · p95 1,600
1/200s
median shutter
90%
shot in Manual mode

Shooting DNA

How Canon EOS 5D Mark II photos are shot

1,302 all-time photos · 670 with Lightroom edits

Aperture

  1. f/1.4 or wider 9%
  2. f/1.8 10%
  3. f/2.8 25%
  4. f/4 20%
  5. f/5.6 10%
  6. f/8+ 25%

ISO

  1. <=200 42%
  2. 400 22%
  3. 800 21%
  4. 1600 11%
  5. 3200 3%
  6. 6400+ 1%

Real-world ISO ceiling: 95% of photos stay at or below ISO 1,600.

Shutter speed

  1. 1/1000s+ 29%
  2. 1/500s 11%
  3. 1/250s 14%
  4. 1/125s 25%
  5. 1/60s 6%
  6. slower 14%

Focal length

Most common focal lengths recorded in EXIF.

  1. 50mm 28%
  2. 35mm 25%
  3. 24mm 10%
  4. 85mm 6%
  5. 40mm 3%
  6. 70mm 3%
  7. 45mm 2%
  8. 28mm 2%
  9. 100mm 2%
  10. 105mm 2%

Exposure mode

  1. Manual 90%
  2. Aperture-priority AE 7%
  3. Program AE 2%

Time of day

When photos are captured, from EXIF timestamps.

Peak hour
13:00 · 10%
Flash fired
7%

Capture year

When the analyzed photos were taken · 2000-2026

  1. 2000 2%
  2. 2008 1%
  3. 2010 1%
  4. 2011 3%
  5. 2012 3%
  6. 2013 3%
  7. 2014 10%
  8. 2015 3%
  9. 2016 8%
  10. 2017 10%
  11. 2018 11%
  12. 2019 12%

What's mounted on the Canon EOS 5D Mark II

Lens pairings from the last 90 days, compared with the all-time share.

Last 90 days · 101 photos

  1. 1 Canon EF 35mm f/1.4L USM 24% up
  2. 2 Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 STM 11% up
  3. 3 Canon TS-E 24mm f/3.5L II 11% up
  4. 4 Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM 11% down
  5. 5 Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM 7% up
  6. 6 Canon TS-E 17mm f/4L 7% up
  7. 7 Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L USM 5% up
  8. 8 Tamron AF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 Di LD 1:2 Macro 5% up
  9. 9 Canon TS-E 45mm f/2.8 3% up
  10. 10 Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM 3% down
  11. 11 Canon EF 40mm f/2.8 STM 2% flat
  12. 12 Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 STM 2% flat

Adapted EF lenses still account for 66% of the top recent pairings.

The edit fingerprint

How Canon EOS 5D Mark II photos are edited

Median Lightroom develop settings across every analyzed edit — data nobody else has.

from 44 Lightroom edits · last 90 days

The typical Canon EOS 5D Mark II edit

Dot = median · band = Middle 50% of edits. Neutral sliders are hidden.

  • Contrast +25
  • Highlights -32
  • Shadows +37
  • Whites -15
  • Blacks -20
  • Saturation -7

Ranges show the middle 50% of edited photos.

The Canon EOS 5D Mark II tone curve

Median curve across all custom tone curves, with the middle 50% band.

Custom curve
91%
lift blacks
77%
lower whites
69%

Most-touched sliders

Share of edits where each Lightroom slider was moved away from neutral.

  1. Whites 95%
  2. Shadows 88%
  3. Highlights 88%
  4. Orange saturation 87%
  5. Blacks 86%
  6. Saturation 81%
  7. Vibrance 78%
  8. Blue luminance 78%
  9. Contrast 77%
  10. Orange luminance 76%
  11. Yellow luminance 68%
  12. Red luminance 68%
  13. Exposure 58%
  14. Green saturation 54%
  15. Red saturation 54%
  16. Blue saturation 51%

White balance & profiles

As Shot
56%
Custom
42%
Auto
2%
Median temperature
4,950K
Median tint
+1
  1. Adobe Standard 93%
  2. Embedded 2%
  3. Fuji 160C 2%
  4. Ilford Delta 3200 C 2%

The Canon EOS 5D Mark II color profile

Rendered from aggregate color grading and HSL data — never from photos.

Color grading

Median hue and saturation per layer, shown as the color it produces.

No reliable color grading sample yet.

Black & white
16%
Grain
73%
Vignette
2%
Cropped
75%

Color mixer activity

How often each HSL channel gets adjusted, with the hue/sat/lum split.

  • Red hue 41% · sat 54% · lum 68%
  • Orange hue 35% · sat 87% · lum 76%
  • Yellow hue 43% · sat 49% · lum 68%
  • Green hue 49% · sat 54% · lum 51%
  • Aqua hue 35% · sat 27% · lum 30%
  • Blue hue 32% · sat 51% · lum 78%
  • Purple hue 22% · sat 27% · lum 22%
  • Magenta hue 24% · sat 27% · lum 22%

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Methodology

Stats are aggregated from photos analyzed on PixelPeeper, capped per contributor so no single uploader can dominate a page. Shooting values come from EXIF metadata; editing values come from Lightroom XMP develop settings when present. Every chart and swatch is derived from aggregate numbers. generated September 28, 2026.