Canon’s introducing new Firmware to 5D Mark II to give it full manual control in movie mode – http://www.usa.canon.com/app/emails/eosmay095dmii/?WT.mc_id=EM0905EO04002.

The manual mode was sorely missing from the camera, causing those who wanted to shoot video and control their aperture settings to find 3-party lenses to mount on to their camera bodies. This is going to make it a lot easier to utilize this feature. It’s still going to be non-trivial for the novice user given the need to put it on a tripod an manual focus. An the “indie” film buffs will whine still as to why it shoots at 30fps rather than 24….

Firmware is available next week (2 Jun 2009). I’ll wait a few days before installing, though.

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