Comments on: Manual video control coming to Canon 5D Mark II
A firmware update due June 2 will answer demands for manual control over video settings including ISO, aperture, and shutter speed.
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Some electronic shutter technology suffers from wobbly "Jell-O" problems when the camera view is panned from side to side because of details about how the data is read sequentially off the image sensor, but I don't know at this stage how big an issue that is with manual control over 5D Mark II video.
It's great they finally release it to all customers, after thousands of requests...
We hope Canon doesn't block manual control for 3rd party brand lenses, that would be an unfair move indeed.
Thanks Canon for releasing it, at last.
It's purely a matter of Canon protecting their dedicated video camera business: when people realize they can shoot both fantastic stills and incredible full-frame large-sensor HD video with one camera, who on earth would buy a dedicated video camera? So they are no way gonna put too many video features on these SLR's until the competition forces them to. (Such as good stereo mics, silent slow automated zoom, external mic jack, time code, etc.) Of course they could do it all tomorrow if they wanted.
As proof of this, Sony has no video on their new SLR's whatsoever. "Buy a video camera." Heard that, and no thanks, Sony!
Or how about Nikon with their 20 frame per second camera. *** is that about? Crippleware.
In the mean time, none of their dedicated video gear has a sensor anywhere near as large as the 5D!
I have a $1000 video camera with a tiny sensor and no shallow DOF control whatsoever and no lens changeability. I have a $1200 DSLR with magnificent image quality and no video whatsover. I have no motivation to invest in a few nice lenses or anything, because this is a silly situation. The first company that offers real non-crippled 1080p video on a nice SLR style camera will get my next purchase.
- by tttulio May 28, 2009 6:27 AM PDT
- What about PAL frame rate?
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(5 Comments)I cannot believe they updated the firmware and left out the most complained about aspect of it.
Wake up!!!