Canon 5D MarkIII & 1Dx - 1080p/60fps???

[agwynn4787]

I have been considering buying the 5d MarkIII, but the only thing holding me back is the lack of 1080p/60fps. I have a 5d mkii and canon glass and equipment. I'm thinking about just buying a d3300 with a 50mm lens to get the 1080p/60fps, or maybe the new Sony A7s which will probably be less than the 5dmkiii and have 4k capability with all the full hd frame rates. It's also a full frame camera.
I really like Canon, but I can't justify paying over 3000 for a camera that does not have something it definitely should. Hope they upgrade the firmware to include 60fps before I buy something else.

 

[3kramd5]

the 5diii was a very small improvement (leaving AF aside) over the 5dii.

Sorry, i find that exceedingly funny. Leaving aside the paramount major upgrade, it's a small improvement. That's like complaining that setting aside the hybrid engine, the hybrid version of a car is a minor upgrade over the gas one.

 

[StudentOfLight]

I have been considering buying the 5d MarkIII, but the only thing holding me back is the lack of 1080p/60fps. I have a 5d mkii and canon glass and equipment. I'm thinking about just buying a d3300 with a 50mm lens to get the 1080p/60fps, or maybe the new Sony A7s which will probably be less than the 5dmkiii and have 4k capability with all the full hd frame rates. It's also a full frame camera.
I really like Canon, but I can't justify paying over 3000 for a camera that does not have something it definitely should. Hope they upgrade the firmware to include 60fps before I buy something else.

You are free to buy whatever you want. There's no need to stick with Canon's offerings if you think you've found a product made by another manufacturer that better meets your requirements.

 

[Tugela]

There is absolutely no reason the Canon 5D MkIII should not be able to record 1080p @ 60fps. The Digic V has sufficient processing power. 1080/60p would most likely have to be limited to IPB compression though, as ALL-I would require a sustained write speed of about 23MB/sec.

Has anyone taken a look at the Sony a77?

It's a $1400 body with a 24.3MP sensor.
It records 1080/60p/60i/30p/24p and does so with an inferior processor to the 5D3.

It's simply a limitation of firmware. Canon purposely crippled the camera to protect their higher end models (which most considering the 5D3 can't afford anyway). It's not like people in the professional market would stop buying C300s, C500s, and 1DCs if the 5D had more advanced video features. The pros are still going to buy the dedicated cinema cameras for the expandability, advanced manual controls, and I/O features (HD-SDI, XLR, Genlock, Timecode).

And yes, I realize the 5D3 is a photo camera first, but 1080/60p is not something that would handicap, or take away from its photo abilities. It wouldn't even cost extra!

There is a reason. The 5D is designed to use the hardware encoder in the DIGIC 5 chip, and that encoder does not do H.264 60p. If you want hardware encoding at 60p you need the DIGIC 6 or DIGIC DV 4 chips, which the 5D3 does not have.