Is a 5D Mark III coming this summer?
Posted by DocumentaryTech on April 18, 2011 · 1 Comment
Canon Rumors is reporting that a Canon EOS 5D Mk III is coming by mid-year. According to the site, it will have:
Specifications
- 26.4 million effective pixels
- ISO expandable to 102,400
- 19 point AF system, 3 cross-type points
- DIGIC 5
- 4.9 fps continuous shooting
- 63-zone iFCL metering
- 1.04 million dot LCD
- Improved camera grip
- Improved pentaprism, approximately 100% frame coverage
- released mid-year
Given that the newly released Rebel T3i has audio controls, we wonder if the rumored MkIII will have more audio controls that will keep it filmmaker friendly. The Magic Lantern firmware hacks have done a lot to improve the Canons for shooting video, so perhaps such features as focus-assist peaking and changeable bit rate might be possible. We’ll see…
Without 10bit 4:2:2 clean output an upgrade is pointless for advanced users, what all DSLR’s are missing is to bypass the internal encoder and card to be able to directly output to a digital recorder with no internal processing! That will be the upgrade I’m waiting for.