The 5D Mark II manuals are now up on Canon's website. Much earlier than I was expecting, I'll take early anytime. We should start seeing "5D Mark II shipped" post here in about two weeks. I'm not sure I believe the Adorama posts on Dpreview, but I'd love for them to be right.
I don't think anyone knows. I called Adorama yesterday to find out that I was 251st on the pre-order list and that they expected to receive 300 on Monday. At this point I'm not putting much stock in anything yet - hopefully before Christmas...
When you shooot continuously for a prolonged period or use Live View shooting for a long period, the camera may become hot. Although this is not a malfunction, holding the hot camera for a long period can cause slight skin burns.
Oucha Magoucha! !
The specified working temperature range for the camera goes up only to 40C. I guess that means the camera fries before your digits do.
The 5d is going to take an external recording system, like when we used to shoot on film! There's no way to monitor the audio on a 5d, and even guesstimating isn't going to cut it.
cineski wrote:
The 5d is going to take an external recording system, like when we used to shoot on film! There's no way to monitor the audio on a 5d, and even guesstimating isn't going to cut it.
Ouch. Good point. Didn't even think about levels. Time to dust off the old clap-board.
With the addition of a XLR converter, mixer, and digital audio recorder the rig grows larger. Good thing the 5DII is small.
Does the 5DII allow for external recording ie: external hard-drive?
jfulton wrote:
Does the 5DII allow for external recording ie: external hard-drive?
Not in its vanilla form, though whether video will work with the WiFi grip or some sort of future CompactFlash-based device might be possible down the track. But in my opinion, Canon are likely to keep the functionality limited to what you see in the specs today for marketing reasons, and certainly if you're thinking of purchasing one early, that's all I'd count on.
Canon are likely to keep the functionality limited to what you see in the specs today for marketing reasons, and certainly if you're thinking of purchasing one early, that's all I'd count on.
stanj wrote:
I don't think that if is the operative word here...
I think we all understand that by the time Canon has put in autofocusing Live View, it would be deliberate crippling not set up video. It would be an interesting turn of events for the 1-Series to be "crippled" compared to a lesser camera.
Yes, I know the 1-Series never had eye-controlled focus, but that wasn't a matter of the hardware already being in place but not activated.
RDKirk wrote:
I think we all understand that by the time Canon has put in autofocusing Live View, it would be deliberate crippling not set up video. It would be an interesting turn of events for the 1-Series to be "crippled" compared to a lesser camera.
Yes, I know the 1-Series never had eye-controlled focus, but that wasn't a matter of the hardware already being in place but not activated.
i cant see them doing that, the PJ's who want video would throw a fit, for one
and it gives their 1 series an advantage over nikon to have it first too.
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