A little bit eclipsed by the announcement of the 1DMrkIV, the announcement of an upcoming firmware update for the Canon 5DMrkII that would give it 24p and 25p is, for most people much more news worthy.
The first benefit of shooting in 24p is, of course, getting the elusive film look we have been talking about since almost a year.
I personally dont care too much for 24 vs 30p. The important element in this news for me is how Canon is going to implement this feature. Are they just going to drop down the frame rate so we can record longer clips or are they going to use the 20% saved bandwidth to increase the bitrate?
We wont know until next year (please make this January!), which make me wonder how it could be so long to implement such update.
Is the infamous 24fps ever …. ever going to make the light of day?
I will not be surprised if the reason for the delay is to boost sales of the 7d.
I dont know. My guess is that Canon makes more money selling 5D than 7D since people who get the 5D will have a tendency to buy more expensive lenses too…
I think Canon spends more attention in video than photo features. I am not saying I am not happy about video outstanding capabilities of this camera, but it is a camera, the first purpose is taking pictures, otherwise I would have bought a video camera.
I am not complaining, every improvement is more than welcome, but I wish Canon made efforts also in improving photo features as the possibility to set a minimum shutter speed in auto ISO mode. It is a useful function that can be easily added to an update firmware and competitors have it on several models.
Here below a link to a petition for that, together with another request:
http://www.petitiononline.com/Canon5D/
I would like you read and sign it, thanks
While you are right for a few points/missing features, I think that Canon still sees the 5DMrkII as a still camera first but they know their market is going the HDSLR way and this is going to be big, hence the reason they talk so much about it.
Also, most of the people I meet who talk about the 5D talk about the video, not the stills. This camera is a real hybrid, able to perform awesomely in both field and as much as people are complaining about still features, others are complaining about the video features.
Finally, yes, auto ISO could be improved, has adding more features such as a better bracketing, etc…