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Canon 5D Mark II offers Full HD video capture

I've been sitting on the fence about upgrading my 20D. But this camera really excites me!

The video features look pretty limited though. I'll still be buying a Scarlet when it finally ships.
 
The low light performance sounds pretty amazing, but not really a good form factor for stable moving images.
 
All amazing and very impressive specs.

"New CMOS sensor
The EOS 5D Mark II’s newly designed full frame 21.1 Megapixel CMOS sensor features ISO sensitivity from 100-6400, expandable to 50, 12,800 and 25,600. Large 6.4µm2 pixels have been redesigned to capture more light and yield a better signal to noise ratio to ensure lower noise images throughout the ISO range. The full frame sensor has the same dimensions as a frame of 35mm film. This means that wide-angle lenses stay wide, without the change in angle of view associated with smaller sensor cameras. As well as benefiting from finer control over depth of field, photographers moving up to the EOS 5D Mark II’s full frame format will find the newly designed wide, bright 98% coverage viewfinder on a joy to work with."

"HD video capture
The EOS 5D Mark II is Canon’s first D-SLR to incorporate full HD 1920x1080 video capture. Once filming is started from Live View mode, photographers can fire off either single of continuous stills, with video capture continuing after the final frame is captured."


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Canon EOS 5D Mark II: 21MP and HD movies.
 
Comments over on Jim's DSMC thread -- it's got skew, and apparently lots of it...
 
This camera is the bomb. Bottom line. I just got back from Yosemite, where I swear I could have used something like this...on this trip!!!

Regarding the 1080p recording option, the Canon site says:

Video capture is part of the camera's Live View function, using the Picture Style that has been set for Live View still image shooting. This allows skilled photographers and cinematographers to adjust image sharpness, contrast, color saturation and white balance, and have those settings apply to the movie image.
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You can't shoot the video RAW? I guess you have to choose color temp, saturation, etc, and all of that in advance?

Anyway, this will be VERY useful for remote outdoor shooting.
 
Is the Full HD image captured by only a small portion of the sensor or is it resized from the 21MP image?????
 
Must be resized, but I'm not sure how.

The lack of RAW is really lame, IMO. But I guess I could learn to go back to the "old" ways of shooting with a locked color temp, sharpness, etc.
 
Auto ISO is not so great either. Sometimes I want to add noise. Doing it in post is just one more processing step and with no RAW will that not have an adverse effect on the end file, compression wise??

Cheers,
Mark.
 
g3nov3s3 said:
Is the Full HD image captured by only a small portion of the sensor or is it resized from the 21MP image?????
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If it's anything similar tothe D90, then it will neither be a resized or bracketed image, but a simple every-n-th-pixel resize. Which will spice the jello with some aliasing.
 
Why is RAW not being offered for video? Is it because of the resizing or capture system of the LiveView, or because they think post will be too difficult? Is this something they might fix or offer with firmware updates?

It seems odd to me that Canon would get their shooters hooked on RAW, but not offer it for the DSLR video. It almost makes it seem like this video thing was "tacked on" at the last minute as some kind of response to Nikon.
 
Tom said:
Why is RAW not being offered for video? Is it because of the resizing or capture system of the LiveView, or because they think post will be too difficult? Is this something they might fix or offer with firmware updates?

It seems odd to me that Canon would get their shooters hooked on RAW, but not offer it for the DSLR video. It almost makes it seem like this video thing was "tacked on" at the last minute as some kind of response to Nikon.
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The camera only handles 3.9 FPS of RAW when shooting stills. Depending on how the resizing is done in movie mode, maybe it's just a matter of too much data. RAW-data might not be downsized so easily, while the video stream is probably very much a part of the live view function. I don't think a simple firmware update will fix it.
 
Tom said:
Why is RAW not being offered for video? Is it because of the resizing or capture system of the LiveView, or because they think post will be too difficult? It seems odd to me that Canon would...not offer it for the DSLR video.
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There's a reason that RED ONE is described as a "super computer with a lens": that's what it takes to shoot 2688mbps, compress it down to 224mbps REDCODE RAW, and store it to flash. The 5Dm2's 38mbps 4:2:0 doesn't compare.

Doing the same with the 5Dm2 sensor would take almost 10,000 mbps at 14-bit.
 
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