Mark II or Mark III for video?

[payal_choksi]

i have also came across such news that mk iii is locking up in video mode. that's pretty scary. i have also read that an petition is filed for the same issue. it would be good if canon takes any notice of the issue and resolve it.

 

[swanny]

There have been isolated cases of them freezing, but I'm not sure how widespread this is or if had to do with cheap cards. I've had our mark 3 for a few months and haven't any problems with it at all. We use Sandisk cards and panasonic class 10's.

 

[greenheron]

Actually, very few people are reporting the freezing problem. It seems to be a fairly limited number of cameras that are being effected.
I have had no freezing problems with the camera at all. When I did a search for the issue it came back to the same few people. All cameras can have problems and DSLR cameras in general have always had issues when you try to push the record limits.

 

[percoplus]

What's a Samarai? Do you mean a Ninja?

 

[percoplus]

By april the mk iii will win hands down. 4:2:2 on hdmi out in full scale will become very useful. If you've tried grading hard you'll know that 4:2:0 from the mk ii will fall apart fast.

Im planning on doing a Samurai test with the mk iii once the firmeware had been rolled out.

What's a Samurai? Do you mean a Ninja?

 

[MattMyster]

I've read this also, but again it seems to be only isolated cases and not widespread. We have to keep in mind that Canon will take a few months to do anything about it if at all so if you have a faulty camera I would say try and return it for a new model.

i have also came across such news that mk iii is locking up in video mode. that's pretty scary. i have also read that an petition is filed for the same issue. it would be good if canon takes any notice of the issue and resolve it.

 

[Ive Lotus]

The MKIII has the best ISO performance in history. You can finally close that lens to have a little bit more DOF and compensate with ISO up to 3200.

 

[nigelbb]

The MKIII has the best ISO performance in history. You can finally close that lens to have a little bit more DOF and compensate with ISO up to 3200.

The 5D2 is already good up to ISO3200. The 5D3 is good to ISO6400 or even ISO12800. The caveat here is that the image must be correctly exposed & never underexposed with the aim of pushing exposure in post as that results in image that look like crap.

 

[Cosimo Bullo]

My 5d2 is NOT good up to 3200.

 

[nigelbb]

My 5d2 is NOT good up to 3200.

It's either defective or you are not giving it enough light (most likely the latter). We shoot weddings & ISO3200 is fine provided (& I keep reiterating this) that it is properly exposed. It is better to use ISO3200 correctly exposed than use ISO1600 underexposed & push it in post.

 

[legrevedotcom]

What's a Samurai? Do you mean a Ninja?

Atomos Samurai... since I already have it I might as well use it.

 

[maarek]

5D3 is ridiculous at ISO 5000. So clean, it's not funny. At 6400 it starts exhibiting pattern noise in the shadows. ISO 12800 is not really usable but ISO 10000 can be.

My 7d is about as clean at ISO 800 as 5d3 is at 5000. Or maybe even 640...haven't tested but feels like it.

 

[payal_choksi]

5D3 is ridiculous at ISO 5000. So clean, it's not funny. At 6400 it starts exhibiting pattern noise in the shadows. ISO 12800 is not really usable but ISO 10000 can be.

My 7d is about as clean at ISO 800 as 5d3 is at 5000. Or maybe even 640...haven't tested but feels like it.

does it mean that 5d3 can make a lens like 24-105 f4 work in low light?

 

[BobbyMurcerFan]

It's either defective or you are not giving it enough light (most likely the latter). We shoot weddings & ISO3200 is fine provided (& I keep reiterating this) that it is properly exposed. It is better to use ISO3200 correctly exposed than use ISO1600 underexposed & push it in post.

Well if it's correctly lit, of course 3200 is going to look good, LOL!

 

[nigelbb]

Well if it's correctly lit, of course 3200 is going to look good, LOL!

The point is that many assume high ISO is intrinsically noisy & are frightened of turning it up too high. It's far better to have the image correctly exposed even if you need to use a high ISO than it is to have it underexposed & trying to lift it in post which is definitely a recipe for noise.