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March 16th, 2010, 03:20
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It's been obvious from day one that it was possible, but after a couple of years of oh-so-painful 30 FPS recording on the EOS 5D Mark II (http://www.engadget.com/tag/5d), Canon is finally coming through with its long-promised (http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/first-canon-eos-1d-mkiv-footage-on-display-5d-mkii-will-join-th/) 2.0.3 update that brings 29.97 FPS and 24 FPS (23.976, to be precise) 1080p recording at last. Even the VGA mode has been swapped to a 29.97 actual rate, and PAL mode has a flat 25 FPS and 23.976 FPS as well. Additional tweaks include a manual volume adjustment (as opposed to the automatic gain the cameras usually employ), a brightness or RGB histogram display (this function, like some of these other features, has been available for a while as a hack), shutter and aperture priority modes have been added for movie shooting, and the audio sampling ramp has been bumped from 44.1KHz to 44KHz. The bad news: now you don't have any excuses for not shooting that heartwrenching mumblecore masterpiece you've been telling everyone you're working on. Hit up the source link for the download instructions.
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]Canon EOS 5D Mark II firmware 2.0.3 arrives at last to free us from frame rate hell (http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/canon-eos-5d-mark-ii-firmware-2-0-3-arrives-at-last-to-free-us-f/) originally appeared on Engadget (http://www.engadget.com) on Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:09:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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It's been obvious from day one that it was possible, but after a couple of years of oh-so-painful 30 FPS recording on the EOS 5D Mark II (http://www.engadget.com/tag/5d), Canon is finally coming through with its long-promised (http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/first-canon-eos-1d-mkiv-footage-on-display-5d-mkii-will-join-th/) 2.0.3 update that brings 29.97 FPS and 24 FPS (23.976, to be precise) 1080p recording at last. Even the VGA mode has been swapped to a 29.97 actual rate, and PAL mode has a flat 25 FPS and 23.976 FPS as well. Additional tweaks include a manual volume adjustment (as opposed to the automatic gain the cameras usually employ), a brightness or RGB histogram display (this function, like some of these other features, has been available for a while as a hack), shutter and aperture priority modes have been added for movie shooting, and the audio sampling ramp has been bumped from 44.1KHz to 44KHz. The bad news: now you don't have any excuses for not shooting that heartwrenching mumblecore masterpiece you've been telling everyone you're working on. Hit up the source link for the download instructions.
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]Canon EOS 5D Mark II firmware 2.0.3 arrives at last to free us from frame rate hell (http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/canon-eos-5d-mark-ii-firmware-2-0-3-arrives-at-last-to-free-us-f/) originally appeared on Engadget (http://www.engadget.com) on Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:09:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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