Payday came around again (hurrah!), but this time I decided to make my final great-big-purchase of this 12-month job. It’s my first one since graduating (technically still a student, actually), and while I have the benefits of an interest-free overdraft to dip into when I need to, I figured I could probably treat myself.

And boy, did I treat myself.

It’s been out for long enough now that I don’t need to explain what a great camera the 5D Mark II is. One thing I will say is that I find the camera tends to underexpose in its metering, which is a bit annoying but not a massive problem. (I’d rather bring up the exposure in post rather than trying to cope with loads of blown-out highlights.) Of course, that could be a ‘problem’ with either the camera’s LCD (which automatically adjusts its brightness level dependent on ambient light), or my (forgive me – uncalibrated!) iMac display.

Even more luckily for me, this month I’m heading to both France and Scotland for holidays, so I’ll have plenty of time to put it through its paces.