Wednesday, September 24, 2008

The Canon 5DMKII--the new kid from Canon


Canon had a great full-frame camera in the 5D and the images that came from it were stunning. It's a small body, but has a large full-frame sensor like the 1DsMKIII camera, but in a smaller package. I had the 5D for a while and used it on a trip to Disney. The images are fantastic and at 12mp, I had lots of data to work with. The specs on the mkII look very interesting and mouth watering:

21 megapixels. Wow. You'll need a fancy computer to process these with speed.

Full 1080 HD Video. Just check out what this means here: Vincent's Blog.

3.9 fps is not going to be a working pro's sport camera, but not bad and more than adequate for the portrait and wedding shooters.

3.0" VGA LCD sweet!

ISO 50-25,600. Are you kidding me. This is pretty slick. I can shoot in a cave.

9 AF points. Sure, wish there were more like Nikon has done with their D700, but that's about the only thing where most folks would have liked to seen an bigger improvement.

Looks like the street price on this one will be about $2800, but from some of what I am seeing and reading, the waiting lists will be long on this one. Put your deposits down now and get on a list. Put your name right behind mine.

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