Canon’s 5D MkII is hot, hot, hot in the indie video world. Much cheaper than a similarly specced video camera and able to use pretty much any Canon lens made since the 1980s, it shoots some stunning footage.
The problem has been exposure control, or the lack of it. Up until now, you had to shoot in auto-exposure mode. It was possible to use exposure compensation to tweak the light, or to use exposure lock, but these were clunky workarounds. A new firmware update has been announced which will allow full manual control of the camera while shooting video. Here are the additions:
- Full aperture selection
- ISO speed: Auto, 100 – 6400 and H1
- Shutter speed: 1/30th – 1/4000th second
Curiously, the update will not be available for download until June 2nd, which makes this perhaps the first time ever that we’ve seen a teaser for a firmware update.
Press release [DP Review]
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