Canon 5D Mark 2

[John Adler]

Hi Doug,

I have one. The image quality is amazing. You get the shallow depth-of-field that would be much more expensive on a video-only camera.

Drawbacks are manual focus only during shooting and manual zoom only. Also, viewing is from a 3 inch LCD that doesn’t articulate.

Canon is releasing new firmware to allow manual setting of aperture, shutter speed and ISO (formerly these were auto-only).

John

[Sam Rosenthal]

>Canon is releasing new firmware to allow manual setting of aperture, shutter speed and ISO (formerly these were auto-only).

John! Those are words I have been waiting to hear! Can you send a link to where you read about the new firmware? Have you heard when it will be available?
Sam

[John Adler]

It’s available now. Here ya go:

https://web.canon.jp/imaging/eosd/firm-e/eos5dmk2/firmware.html

-John

[Sam Rosenthal]

John! This is absolutely amazing.
I cannot wait to get it in my camera and try it out!
Thanks! Sam

[Larry Watts]

John,

I saw you were using the Canon EOS 5D Mark II. How is Sony Vegas handling the files?

Any challenges?

Have you tried it with Version 9 yet?

Thanks!

Larry

[John Adler]

Hi Larry,

I’m still using Vegas 8. It doesn’t really like the 5DMk2 files, so I put them on the timeline and render them to MPG2’s with the same settings as the originals. After that, they edit smoothly with no discernible quality loss.

-John

[Sam Rosenthal]

Larry. I have been editing 5DM2 files in Vegas 9. It seems to be working. There is considerable bog-down, when I start adding effects (like color correction) to the tracks. Not sure if I should render them all to MPEG-2 as John suggests, or just render the ones that have the heavy processing on them. Still trying to figure it all out. Sam