New Canon EOS 5D mark II announced

Today Canon announced the Canon EOS 5D Mark II here are some of the Specifications.

Features

* 21.1MP full frame CMOS sensor
* DIGIC 4 processor
* ISO range expandable to 25600
* Full HD (1080, 30fps) movie recording
* High-res 3.0” VGA LCD with Live View
* 3.9fps JPEG shooting up to card capacity
* 9-point AF + 6 Assist AF points
* Magnesium alloy body

Full Specs are on the Canon website here.

This baby will record HD video and shoot stills at the same time. I can see using this to record key moments such as exchanging the ring and first kiss / first dance.

Now if only the price wasn't £2300 vs $2700... hmmmmm...

Here's my take on it.

The extra ISO range will be invaluable given some of the low-light venues i shoot in. The 4fps will come in handy but it's not really of that much interest for the event and wedding work i do.

The VGA screen is nice to get a better view of the image, again nice but not essential.

The extra resolution will be nice, but, means i'll need bigger CF cards and get less on a card. Of course it will be handy if people want 100ft prints :)

Creative Auto Mode - as with the 50d, gives a little more help to new shooters - though why they will be spending £2300 on a camera they don't know how to use i don't know!

2 smaller RAW formats, at last!
sRAW with 10mpx, more than enough for those candid shots - saves me some space on my card with the flexability of RAW, I wonder if it will be possible to get even better high-iso performance from using this....

Peripheral Illumination Correction - like auto-vignette correction - i leave this off - i like the effect :)

Adaptive Dynamic Range Optimization - this feature looks interesting if it works the same as nikons equivalent - i just hope it doesn't eat buffer space the same.

High Tone Priority - i have this on my 1d3, i tend not to use it much as it reduces the ISO's i can select and can hence stop me getting a shot i need to.

Stealth Modes

I'll let you know when mine arrives as to how it will do for my kind of work....

Stay Tuned.