You can put the boom box down now — 24p on your 5D
Monday, October 19, 2009 at 9:55PM When it rains it pours.
Mike Seymour just posted that Canon has announced a firmware update for the Canon 5D Mark II that will support 24p and 25p at 1920x1080.
“We understand that EOS 5D Mark II users desire additional frame rates and we’re preparing a firmware update to allow the camera to shoot at both 24P and 25P,” said Chris Macleod, Brand Manager – EOS, Canon Australia.
Canon expects the firmware update to be available in the first half of 2010 and will release more details as they become available.
Whew.
Read the full story over at fxguide.
Stu
Readers of this blog, y’all should pat yourselves on the back for this one. This is a great example of a big behemoth of a company hearing its users and responding. Well done.
So here’s the state of HDDSLRs: Amazon has the 5D Mark II in stock now for $2780, the 7D in stock for $1900 (short wait for $1700), and the 1D Mark IV available for pre-order for $5000.
And we’re only 10 days away from new announcments from RED.
Like watching supermodels mudwrestle for the chance to give you a backrub.
Reader Comments (17)
Haha! What a night.
As if in answer to your last post.
Now there seems to be too many ridiculously awesome options, Red or canon... or wait for the near future...
O M F G
It's about damn time!
Congratulations everybody!
This is awesome... if you already own a 5DmkII.
My concern would be that re-jigging the h264 video chip-thingy in software to encode 24/25fps when it was originally hard-coded to do 30 might result in dropped frames, more jello, or who knows what other weird stuff, especially if it doesn't have the 2nd Digic processor like the 7D and 1DmkIV.
Or... it could be the most awesome thing since the invention of female nudity. For my friends that own 5DmkII's (and film things), I hope it's the latter.
But what would I know, I'm just some guy from the internet saving for a 7D.
I´m glad i kept my Canon 5d Mkii !!
Hehe, here come the supermodels again. I wonder if they've cut their nails since last time ;-)
Must admit I didn't expect this one. Smart move from Canon timing-wise.
Finally! this is the most awesome exciting news to complement the 1Dmk4 that canon made such a move to consolidate their HDSLR line. now it makes sens to own a bunch of them as they will play nicely together on a single timeline withjout convoluted framerate conversions. hurray!
This is a very happy moment. I guess Canon couldn't take another year of people ringing and writing on every forum known to man.
Just when i figured out how to get good results with shake too! (Then realised that it was incredibly slow). So happy i get to watch less little bars filling up, tapping my fingers...
If this firmeware really arrives at our 5d's than I want to thank all of you, who make this possible. Thank you stu and the others for their effort to show canon what they have to do with their costumers !
Hmmm. I was going to buy the 7D but now I think I might just have to go for the full frame. If the 24p on the 5D is up to scratch then suddenly the 5D just gained another couple of years in the spotlight.
Dont forget 29.97 for us NTSC users!
I do not own any of this stuff... but if you look at a 10 year cycle... almost anything you want.. you can get pretty easily if you wait ten years. :)
"Suddenly one day some little fat girl in Ohio is going to be the new Mozart... and make a beautiful film with her father’s little camera-corder, and for once this whole professionalism about movies will be destroyed forever and it will become an art form." - Francis Ford Coppola
Coppola said these famous words in 1991, but I think poor picture quality has been a barrier. In the past year or so, that barrier has basically been toppled. Cameras with cinematic potential are inexpensive, and the internet has solved most of the distribution issues.
It will be extremely interesting what films and filmmakers emerge from this new landscape.
I disagree Ben, I think the filmmaking skills of fat girls from Ohio has been the barrier.
WHITE RED PANIC proved that good filmmaking doesn't require shallow DOF (as did CITIZEN KANE), and SIMILO proved that good filmmaking doesn't require HD.
These new cameras are exciting, but the cameras have been more than ready for the fat girl for seven years now.
You have a solid point there! In the 60s and 70s, there were a lot of people talking about democratizing video distribution. Well, with YouTube, they finally got their wish, and we can all see how that turned out. So these new tools will certainly enable their share of awfulness (remember the typographic abominations people created in the early 90s?).
At the same time, I know a lot of talented and motivated filmmakers who don't have the money to shoot film (or even rent cameras). The desktop publishing revolution spawned a wave of incredible graphic design and a fresh generation of designers. I think it's inevitable that the same thing will happen with film.
@ Ben,
I agree with your point in the general sense, save one exception.
Youtube doesn't necessarily represent the ideal outlet for artists who want to maintain control of their own work. Certainly, it's an effective outlet to show your work to basically anybody in the world, but the terms of service for Youtube, Vimeo, and some other sites bring attention to the business side of things that I don't think enough young filmmakers are really aware of. It's been brought to my attention a couple times, and I just recently noticed that one video hosting service that's gaining more exposure lately is SmugMug. And I think that's because they don't have the same overly-possessive terms of service as Youtube and Vimeo.
So, while a lot of up and coming artists flock to those sites to post unique videos, they've basically given up control of their art in the process, simply because the terms of service.
the fat girl needs to go on a diet.
"the fat girl needs to go on a diet." lol
"This is a great example of a big behemoth of a company hearing its users and responding. Well done."
These really are awesome news and I can't wait to record movies in 24p! But Stu, don't praise canon too much. It took canon over a year to hear their users and an additional half year to release the update? They could have asked any indiefilmmaker befor releasing the camera and they would have all told them 24p is the way to go. Also in Europe 25 fps is a must! What need do we in Europe have for 30 fps? For me it's not like a good example of a company listening to their users but more an example of a company protecting their pro videoline.
Anyway, I'm really happy they finally chose to go this way!