Allen Gambrell » Cameras

5DmII Manual Video Control!

Allen — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:31:00 +0000

Canon released a firmware update for the 5d mark II that will allow you to have total manual control over the video!

So you can now get that shallow depth of field without using hacks or tricks to achive it.

I just did some testing and this is going to bring a whole new area to the industry.

5D Mark II Announced

Allen — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:38:03 +0000

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.

Canon 5D Mark II Information

Allen — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 15:40:28 +0000

Fake Chuck Westfall has some information on the new Canon 5D Mark II. He says that parts of his non-disclosure aggrement ran out today. The can’t say the offical name of the camera, but he did say that it is going to be 24mp with great low light capibilites. There is no on camera flash.

These could all be rumors but it sounds good to me.

Phase One annonces 60 megapixel back!

Allen — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:59:02 +0000

Phase One just announced the P65+. It is a full frame, 60 megapixel 645 medium format back. Luminous Landscape has a preview of the new back.

It shoots the 60mp image at a speedy 1 frame per second, not a sports camera. It also has varible resolution. So you can take a 30mp frame at 2fps.

I though the 50 megapixel Hassellblad back was a little overkill, but this?

It will sell for $39,990 for just the back, or $41,990 for the camera system.