Coming in February?
if you look at the right of the following link, you'll see the 5D Mark II with the firmware update under the raffle prizes.
Marketing (i.e viral linking to them) or do they actually know something?
Forum discussion at Cinema5D
http://www.cinema5d.com/viewtopic.php?f=56&t=9121
Thanks Mathias
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With all this hoohaa and flowing bile over the 5D2 focusing system recently, I decided to try mine again. It’s usually used only for landscapes, more often with shorter manual focus lenses so AF isn’t really an issue for me. I took it out to get some pictures of my 4 year old son and his older brother leaping around at play. Normally I would use either a compact with some pre-setting of focus or my EOS 350D for these sort of shots, but yesterday made a comparison of the 350D against the 5D2. Using the EF 24-105/4 lens honours were pretty evenly shared, so perhaps the 5D2 does fall rather short. However using the EF 135/2 the larger camera was streets ahead in speed and accuracy.
Maybe a rather rough and ready comparison, but one that suggests the 5D3 should get better AF, logically slighty improved weather sealing up to 7D standards too, but, please Canon, keep the facility to change screens! Oh, and 100% VF and +/- 3.0 EV please.
MP? I can crop slightly and still print to A3 at 300ppi, so personally, I don’t want more – unless some future development with printers takes us past the 300ppi “barrier”. Personally, I would rather see improved IQ with the same number of pixels. Evolution rather than revolution.
What? Use of facts and experimentation? We have no place for that here! :)
Seriously though, nice work, I’ll have to look into a 135/2 lens then.
Couldn’t have said it better.
The recent price drops of the 5DmarkII indicate they feel the heat coming or they are trying to get rid of inventory.
haha, your never gonna believe this but i totally read the first reply wrong. i thought instinctively by system we were talking about different models under one brand. not two different brands entirely. thaz my bad. so to clarify. i agree.
Seemed like at one point this thread had something to do with a firmware update. Apparently there is nothing to report since the original post.
I’m still awfully curious about the possibility of 720-60p along with 24p. Has anyone heard anything about that?
I don’t think we’ll see it, personally. Maybe it is possible to do, but if I was Canon I would not add this feature. I think there are too many people like me out there who are in need of both a 5D and 7D, but only want the latter as a second body because it offers 24 and 60. If the firmware includes 60, my 7D is ebay-bound. In effect, if Canon DOES throw in the 60p (yes, aliasing and all), it means $1400 (more or less) in my pocket.
(I’m not raking on the 7D, really. I just don’t need it or prefer it for anything other than 24 and 60p. As a still camera, it’s a fairly capable backup body, that is all.)