5D Shooters Rejoice!

[Felix01]

A 10 minute YouTube video 5D Mark II hands on.

[Felix01]

Pre-orders on Amazon...$2699...for those who don't have a relationship with a local retailer.

[Nigel_Johnson]

Additional information including sample pictures are available at the following Canon sites:
Canon Professional Network - EOS 5D Mark II
Canon EOS 5D Mark II

Nigel

[John_Vito]

Looks like Canon didn't improve the auto focusing that much... specifically low light auto focusing... this will be a deal breaker for me if it's true.

Canon did improve the AI servo focusing... I just wonder why since it's really not a sports camera? Maybe Chuck W. can chime in with Canon's rationale?

[Jerry Skrocki]

From dpreview hands on:

" AF microadjustment (up to 20 lenses individually)
Live view with three mode auto-focus (including face detection)
No mirror-flip for exposures in Live View if contrast detect AF selected."

From Rob Galbraith's preview:

"The 5D Mark II does include two changes in its AF system, relative to the 5D: it now has the ability to detect scene colour temperature and light flicker, then incorporate that as part of the camera's autotofocus calculation, plus AF Microadjustment, to compensate for focus calibration error in the camera body or combination of body and attached lens, has been added."

[Josh_Hawkins]

Doug, thanks for that info on the weather sealing, hadn't heard that yet. It's not great (I think), but I'll take it.

Martin, I'm in agreement with you, I'd rather have better low-light performance than the extra pixels. I can see myself using the 11mp raw setting personally. There is only so much data I need, and so much I want to deal with moving around.

[Felix01]

Originally Posted by Josh_Hawkins

Doug, thanks for that info on the weather sealing, hadn't heard that yet. It's not great (I think), but I'll take it.

10 mm rain/3 minutes = a rate of 7.9 inches/hour

That'd be considered a real gully washer here in west Texas. If the D5MkII will withstand that for three minutes, I'd wager most sane photogs will be under cover by then.

Believe it'll suffice!