September 17, 2008 at 13:24The official announcement of the Canon EOS 5D Mark II
3 years after the announcement of the first semi-professional full-length camera Canon EOS 5D, Canon announced the Canon EOS 5D Mark II, an update that has become a legend for many cameras.
Key Features:
• 21.1 megapixel matrix 36x24mm format made using CMOS technology.
• Self-cleaning sensor (in the common people “dusting”), remapping using Canon DPP Software.
• New 14bit DIGIC4 processor.
• Burst shooting 3.9 frames per second.
• File size from 5616 x 3744 (21.0 MP) to 2784 x 1856 (5.2 MP) with the ability to select intermediate values for RAW and Jpeg.
• 9 point autofocus with 6 invisible assist points.
• Manual adjustment of any lenses (adjustment), with the ability to remember settings for 20 lenses.
• Exposure compensation and breaking ± 2EV.
• Sensitivity of the sensor is 50-25600 ISO, auto 100-3200 ISO.
• Shutter resource - 150,000 operations.
• Highlight priority, auto-correction of vignetting and custom noise correction at high ISO.
• Viewfinder with a new pentaprism, 98% coverage and advanced camera settings.
• 3-inch 920,000px LCD display, with a viewing angle of 170 ° and 100% frame coverage, “Live view” and “Face Detection” modes.
• Record HD-video 1920 x 1080 (16: 9) up to 12 minutes in one file.
• A buffer with support for UDMA memory cards and recording at speeds up to 78 frames in jpeg format (310 for UDMA cards) and 13 in RAW format.
• Support for 25 languages including Russian and Ukrainian.
• Ability to update camera software.
• Support for Compact Flash Type I and II, UDMA cards.
• A battery with 6 levels of discharge indication that allows you to take up to 850 frames at 20 ° C.
• Dimensions 152x114x75mm, weight without battery 810gram.
More detailed specifications (in English), examples of photos and videos in the announcement on Dpreview.com.
The price of the camera is $ 2699.
On my own, as a practicing amateur photographer with an ancestor of the new product (Canon EOS 5D), I want to note first of all those things that are really important to me - expanding the ISO range to 25600 and a couple of little things. I would like to believe that the new “five” will produce a live, plastic picture, traditional for 5D, and its quality will not be affected for the worse by an increase in megapixels with the same physical size of the matrix. However, maybe I'm just a conservative. :) Friends, we have been waiting for it for a long time!
• Manual adjustment of any lenses (adjustment), with the ability to remember settings for 20 lenses.
• Exposure compensation and breaking ± 2EV.
• Sensitivity of the sensor is 50-25600 ISO, auto 100-3200 ISO.
• Shutter resource - 150,000 operations.
• Highlight priority, auto-correction of vignetting and custom noise correction at high ISO.
• Viewfinder with a new pentaprism, 98% coverage and advanced camera settings.
• 3-inch 920,000px LCD display, with a viewing angle of 170 ° and 100% frame coverage, “Live view” and “Face Detection” modes.
• Record HD-video 1920 x 1080 (16: 9) up to 12 minutes in one file.
• A buffer with support for UDMA memory cards and recording at speeds up to 78 frames in jpeg format (310 for UDMA cards) and 13 in RAW format.
• Support for 25 languages including Russian and Ukrainian.
• Ability to update camera software.
• Support for Compact Flash Type I and II, UDMA cards.
• A battery with 6 levels of discharge indication that allows you to take up to 850 frames at 20 ° C.
• Dimensions 152x114x75mm, weight without battery 810gram.
More detailed specifications (in English), examples of photos and videos in the announcement on Dpreview.com.
The price of the camera is $ 2699.
On my own, as a practicing amateur photographer with an ancestor of the new product (Canon EOS 5D), I want to note first of all those things that are really important to me - expanding the ISO range to 25600 and a couple of little things. I would like to believe that the new “five” will produce a live, plastic picture, traditional for 5D, and its quality will not be affected for the worse by an increase in megapixels with the same physical size of the matrix. However, maybe I'm just a conservative. :) Friends, we have been waiting for it for a long time!