Canon EOS 5D II and Powershot G10

In the race to be the first to bring you a picture of the new Canon EOS 5D MKII, I win. Almost. The 5D replacement specs are as follows:

21.1 Megapixel, full-frame CMOS
Full HD video at 1920 x 1080
DIGIC 4
3.9 fps
Live View
3” LCD
EOS Cleaning system

Check out the dpreview article on the new release. The EOS 5D II is expected to start shipping at the end of November and will be about £1500 in the UK I expect.

UPDATE
List price for the 5D MKII is $2699 in the US, that’s £1512 at today’s exchange rate.
List price for the 5D MKII is £2299 in the UK

Those figures again? £1512 in the US, £2299 in the UK.

Seriously? Who are they trying to kid? We are being stiffed. Stiffed, I tell you.

A United Airlines return flight from London to New York is £302 today. And when you get to NY you can do all your Christmas shopping, pick up your 5D and still have got a better deal than you’d get at home. And as you board the plane for the return flight you can shout “I DID THE MATH!”

Also, as correctly predicted by yours truly, Canon announce a 14.7 megapixel replacement to the G9 with the new G10. They didn’t call it a GX for some reason but my other predictions were eerily accurate.

That’s all the dork talk for now. There will be much said about these new models from Canon and the video function on the 5D is certainly interesting. The increase in pixels is, of course, attractive but so too are the reported improvements in noise handling and shadow detail. The sensor cleaning function in the 5D MKII is also a selling point although it’s becoming pretty standard issue these days.

So there you have it. It’s finally arrived and we can all get back to taking photographs and not suffering from any sort of gear envy at all. Can’t we?

Personally, I’m increasingly drawn to the Holga range, perhaps getting back to basics is the way to go.

Posted on Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 at 10:25 pm. Filed under: Technology Tags: 5d MKII, canon RSS 2.0 feed.

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