shutterbug

finally!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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price low to fight back Nikon and Sony

21 MP is kinda overkill for me too, I'd trade 5 MP for better AF and more fps.

Canon forced battery and battery upgrade for 5D2...old ones are not compatible!

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pros they don't care...they just sell all the old 5D/BP and get the new 5D2/LP batteries.  But I agree, they should at least make it backwards compatible...

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saw these before....really useable ultra high ISO!

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This camera will change the industry!!!!

http://blog.vincentlaforet.com/2 ... nd-to-our-industry/

Here seems to be a footage of what Vincent L was producing with the 5D2...looks awesome...low light...DOF...

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Think of it this way...people who will buy 5D2 will not buy it for the video mode, afterall it's still a DSLR, so HD video is only a BONUS!  However, I'm very excited about his comments....

"at 3200 ASA -with close to ZERO noise… this camera is STUNNING - I’m not throwing around expletives needlessly here",

"the funny things is - we borrowed the Canon XH-A1 to do the behind the scenes footage - and we decided not to correct it for the behind the scenes video…because it clearly shows how big of a jump (leap) this camera is technologically…while the video quality is similar in daylight (5D MKII is better…) the night time footage is night and day… frankly - and I may get heat from Canon for saying this the Canon XH-A1 looks like unusable garbage… an that’s because we were shooting in light that was as low as 1/8th of a second at f2 set to 1600 ASA for a film camera… the video from the XH-A1 looks like it was shot w/ my Canon G9…"

"A top commercial film editor who  who regularly edits RED camera footage - and has seen the raw footage from the 5D MKII - says the 5D MKII is “far superior to the RED camera” in terms of low light performance…"



In LIve View, there's a video and still mode.  I'm not sure if that means you can take full res still frames while taking a video...need to know more details.  Those pics on the blog is just "still grabs" from the video.

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I think you still don't get what this means to a photographer...not a videographer...just stop looking at this from a videographer's point of view...everybody knows that this is not a video production cam...

The valuable thing here is to be able to record a high quality video while you're taking pictures with your good old DSLR!  You're not going to be a cinematographer with this thing OK...

The bandwidth issue that VL is talking about is to host a sample of what this 5D2 can do...not for your everyday show and tell...

BTW, smugmug has stepped up to show this sample later.

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VL's comment to the shallow DOF question...I don't see why you can't stop down with the lens???

"Mr Nea - you can shoot at f22 if you want… and then it’ll look like all of the consumer video you see out there… so to me shooting at f2 is a Godsend… "

"Avi - to be honest - it was “point an shoot” could not have been easier… sure a bigger heavier camera has it’s obvious advantages in terms of stability etc… that will never go away… but different tools have different strengths… this one is so small and lightweight that it allows you to work very very quickly - and handheld - whereas I hate working handheld w/ camcorders… that being said - when you zoom or focus the lens you have to be steady - focusing is not really an issue - but zooming is not as easy as with a camcorder - hopes this helps. you simply hold the camera as it it were a still camera… "


Gimmick?  I won't say that if I were you, maybe it's gimmick on DC's video.  Just wait and see how many photographers will adopt this in their businesses in the near future!  Imagine when you're showing a slideshow of picture galleries, you see a nice intro and a ending to complete the set, or to compliment the important moments!

[ 本帖最後由 shutterbug 於 2008-9-22 13:01 編輯 ]

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"不用等啦，好多人做緊。"
Just for discussion...I really haven't seen any from a pro photographer...can you show me a few?  All the work that they show is still images.  OTOH, videographers sometimes show still images in their clip.

Out of focus or not, it's too early to say without a real hands on review.  I dont' think Canon's DSLR AF is slow....even so the 5D is no 1D level AF...it can still do tracking quite well...especially with their ring USM in their L lenses!  The AF accuracy thing can be fixed now with microadjustment.  Also, people used to pixel peep much higher res than HD...more like 4500x3500 or higher....size of the HDTV is irrelevent...resolution matters.

Obviously, I'm not a video man so can you explain the reason for this "至於話收光圈拍，呢句話係外行人講"?

[ 本帖最後由 shutterbug 於 2008-9-22 15:43 編輯 ]

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here you go...full blown (sort of...downsize to 1/4) 5D2 clip from VL

http://blog.vincentlaforet.com/2 ... urther-ado-reverie/

speechless!  excellent low light

[ 本帖最後由 shutterbug 於 2008-9-22 22:03 編輯 ]