Canon 5D Mark II Rumors

2008.04.08

Click here for new spec­u­la­tion of the Canon 5D Mark II release date (May 26, 2008)

Fin­gers crossed this is true but the amount of dif­fer­ent rumours I’ve heard about the new 5D replace­ment has made me give up and just wait for an offi­cial announce­ment. The rea­son I post because it’s alleged that the release may occur April 22, not far away at all. I’m very scep­ti­cal but it sure wets my appetite..

Stolen from DPre­view

The new 5D II will not be released at Pho­tok­ina, but instead will be a sur­prise announce­ment on April 22, accord­ing to a source I am unwill­ing to disclose.

The specs of the new cam­era are as fol­lows (final name unavailable):

- 15.3 MP full frame CMOS sen­sor (vastly improved light-gathering capac­ity per pixel: improved micro lenses; minia­tur­ized micro cir­cuitry; enhanced signal/noise ratio)

- Weather seal­ing same as 1Ds Mark III

- Dual Digic III with all-new “CXRNR sys­tem reported to best 3rd party NR soft­ware. Avail­able as a C.F with 4 lev­els of cus­tomiz­able parameters.

14 bit A/D conversion

- ISO 12800 (C.F. up to 25600)

- Reported 1 2/3 stop sen­si­tiv­ity improvement

- All-new 29-point TTL CMOS sen­sor
with 12 cross-type for F/2.8 or faster lens
(35% faster than 40D)

- Micro lens fine adjust­ment for up to 14 lenses

- 300,000 expo­sure shut­ter durability

- 6.0 / 3.0 fps

- 3.0″ LCD
922,000 pixels

- EOS Inte­grated Clean­ing System

- Live View (improved from 450D; lat­est generation)

- 6/3 fps con­tin­u­ous shoot­ing for up to 68 frames

- MSRP $3499, avail­able June 2

It would be hard not to upgrade to this that’s for sure.

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18 comments

  1. damn yes i want one

    Nige, April 8, 2008
  2. Def­i­nitely very desir­able specs!
    I want one too!

    Marty, April 8, 2008
  3. Oh, to shoot above iso 3200 finally! Com­bine that at f1.4 and you’ve got night vision

    Gavin the photographer, April 8, 2008
  4. Hmmm Rumor 6,583,654 I suspect.

    James, April 9, 2008
  5. This release has had so much beat up that noone will be happy with the release, such is life I guess :)

    Alex, April 9, 2008
  6. Canon need to release a body like this to stop all the peo­ple jump­ing ship to the D3/D300.

    Nikon really gave it to Canon by offer­ing the fea­ture set of the new Nikons. I hon­estly believe Canon is going to release this cam­era, its just a mat­ter of when. I think deep down I also think that this was “inten­tion­ally” leaked to make all the peo­ple “think­ing” of jump­ing ship to wait and “see”

    Only time will tell. Will check back in a few days :)

    Julius Lagula, April 20, 2008
  7. Well this was meant to hap­pen yesterday/which is kinda today cos the USA is behind the times… any­thing hap­pened yet?

    Nige, April 23, 2008
  8. OK already…I’ve sold the toys, the kitchen sink and a whole lotta cam­era gear wait­ing for the big anounce­ment:-) Who has the next set of rumers? The money is burn­ing a hole in my pocket and I feel naked with­out a qual­ity camera!

    Gizzy, April 24, 2008
  9. Haha.

    I’ve been updat­ing my RSS feeds quite fre­quently over the last few days and noth­ing :( Fin­gers crossed though

    Alex, April 24, 2008
  10. Would be nice, but unfor­tu­nately the real­ity is that if Canon were to intro­duce any­thing over 3200/6400, would they not have done this on the 1DS Mark III? Would it really be pos­si­ble to intro­duce this many out­stand­ing fea­tures, mak­ing it pretty much a 1DS Mark III minus only 6 megapix­els and $6,000? Would I like to see those kind of stats? Sure! If I believed it though, I would be set­ting myself up for a big fall.

    More real­is­tic would be 16mp, 3,200 ISO (but with less noise, MAYBE expand­able to 6,400)), dual digic III, 5fps, sen­sor clean, live view (which is crap any­way), 14bit AD, with a few more cross sen­sors… I say 16mp because that is what the old 1ds Mark II was.

    They bet­ter make the cur­rent 5D bat­tery pack com­pat­able too! ;-)

    Michael Rigg, May 21, 2008
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  12. The announce­ment date has been con­stantly put back. What Nikon really needs to do is BEAT canon again, com­ing up with a model between the D300 and D3 at the $2.8 to 3G point.

    That would be a huge upset.

  13. Per­son­ally speak­ing I love the com­pe­ti­tion between Canon and Nikon, hop­ing that it makes their teams increas­ingly inno­v­a­tive as they seek to cre­ate a com­pet­i­tive edge over one another but hope­fully at a sav­ing the end user. The game would become very inter­est­ing if Pen­tax upped things a notch which is def­i­nitely pos­si­ble in the com­ing years.

    Excit­ing times ahead

    Alex, May 28, 2008
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