5D Mark II Announced

September 18, 2008

The new Canon 5D Mark II was announced a couple of days ago.

• 21 Megapixel Full Frame Chip
• Automatic sensor dust cleaning
• ISO 100-6400 with expanded 50 – 15600
• 3.0 Frames per second
• Raw (21mp), sRaw1 (10mp), sRaw2 (5mp)
• 3″ Lcd Screen
• 1080p 30fps movie mode
• external mic connection
• New Battery
• UDMA Compact Flash Support
• Price $2699

There are some great features to it. First is the price per megapixel. Its hard to beleave that the 1ds Mark3 released last year at $7500 has just a few more megapixels that this camera. Also the ablity to shoot in the smaller sRaw modes if needed is great if you don’t require the big files for a certain job.

The ISO is supposed to make this camera the most low light senitive one that Canon makes. This will be good for some shots like football, but I wish it was a little faster in the fps. 3.9 is ok, but 5 would have been much better.

The video mode looks to be killer. It can shoot full HD video at 1080p at 30fps. This is much better than the Nikon D90 witch is only 720p. The 5D will only record up to a 4gb file in video mode. This works out to be about 16min of full resolution video Canon said. Also you can still fire the camera while you are shooting video. I wonder if this will affect the video in any way. The camera also has a stereo mic input jack. So you can use a beachteck converter to hook up any mike.

The video mode seems a great addtion to the camera and will be great at weddings. The only problem is that it will increase what you need on your wedding bracket. Now you will need the camera, off camera flash, video light, and shotgun mic.

I can’t wait, I got to have one or two! They are saying November for a release on the camera.

DPReview has a full preview of the camera.

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