Review on Canon EOS 5D Mark II Body Camera by Stanislaw Szczesny ᠌

Despite the shortcomings, in my opinion, the 5DII is the best DSLR from Canon, because. 1DsIII in many positions is already in the past, but Canon deliberately did not raise the focus in 5DII to the level of ones, so as not to step on its own tail. It’s the same with video: on the one hand, the ability to shoot FullHD video using high-quality optics, and on the other hand, the practical lack of autofocus and smooth zooming, if you zoom in, it means losing focus. Anyone who has encountered the AutoISO problem in LiveView in P, Tv and Av! Latest firmware 2.0.4. made it possible, when shooting in LiveView, to change the aperture, shutter speed and ISO in the M, P, Tv and Av modes, but in order for the ISO to remain the one you selected in the mirror mode in the P, Tv, Av modes, you need to set the menu to "Monitor Display Mode" is set to "Photo" or "Photo, Exposure Simulation". If the "Video" value is selected, then we get AutoISO as soon as we switch to LiveView. In fact, in the new firmware, we got the opportunity to save all the current camera settings when switching to LiveView, which undoubtedly gives great creative potential for both the photographer and the clipmaker. Shooting video in Tv and Av mode with a fixed ISO, for example, solves the problem of smooth shooting for dynamic scenes, because. by increasing the shutter speed more than the frame rate, we get motion blur and / or a large depth of field. The latter to some extentcommpensates for the wretchedness of autofocus in LiveView. Here is an example of my video shot by this DSLR, though still with the old firmware: