Catching up on some blogging after a crazy busy 3 day week…
Today at a demo at Casey’s Camera’s in Vegas I had my hands on the new Canon 5D Mark II. This is the camera I’ve been waiting to upgrade to (from the first 5D) for quite some time. There is a huge production shortage of these, so I have to settle for a waiting list for now, but it’s a certainty that I’ll be owning one of these suckers.
For those of you interested in this camera – here’s the skinny… The 5D has a full-frame sensor, which was the first of it’s kind when it was introduced 3 years ago in the Pro-sumer (Professional meets Consumer, yeah, “prosumer” sounds dumb, I know, but there’s no other way to reference the $2K – $5K price range. Sorry.) division. The flipside of having this giant sensor is that it collects dust. Lots of it. The pro-grade Canon cams clean their own sensors – but I figured it’s chocked into that $8K price tag. Not anymore! 5D Mark II cleans itself for about $2700 (body MSRP). Also, it’s upped it’s size from roughly 12 Megapixels to 21, it’s ISO range is insanely high now, and it’s shoots HD video!
I feel like Homer Simpson over a donut. Hurry up, Canon, get your elves busy!
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