5D Mark II Manual Reveals Feature Specifications.

• Posted: October 24, 2008
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• Author: Andrew Kamin
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Canon has made available for download the manual for the much anticipated 5D Mark II. Slashgear has been kind enough to take a thorough review of this manual as in doing so uncovered some feature specs. To be specific video feature specifications.

• A faster (preferably 8m/s or higher) and large capacity of CF card may require for full HD recording or playback.
• Maximum recording size is 4GB per file or movie time exceeds 29 minutes and 59 seconds.
• Continue Recording modes are approximately 12 minutes for 1920×1080 (Full HD) and 24 minutes for 640×480 (SD) for 4GB CF card.
• A fully charged battery lasts up to 90 minutes of recording shooting at at 23C/73F or 80 minutes at 0C/32F.
• You can trigger movies capture in all shooting modes, namely Green Box, P/TV/AV/M/B.
• External flash will be disabled during movie shooting.
• Exposure compensation is allowed and can be locked during movie capture.
• Movie will be recorded in sRGB color space and Picture Style currently set.
• Image Stabilizer is not recommended. It may introduce AF motor noises in sound recording or shorten the capture due to battery demand in using the IS feature.
• Still capture is permitted during a movie capture, camera will determine values of shutter speed, aperture and ISO from 100-3200.
• HDMI is using live view image feed, with no sound and smaller image output on display.
• Auto-focus will be unavailable while capturing video with the manual focus adjustments reviewed on LCD.

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