Canon is coming out with a new aps sized camera the 7D. There are few of them floating around now -I have heard that Lauren Greenfield was testing one last week.
The camera builds on the success of the wildly popular video functions found in the 5D MK II. Most impressively you will now be able to change frame rates 24p, 25p, 30p (all at 1080HD) and get this 50p and 60p (but only in 720HD). Wow very cool!
If this is like most canon products the hardware is by now set but the firmware is still being tweaked so let me tell Canon what is on my firmware wish list:
1 fix the 5D MK II's achilles heel, it wretched, wretched sound recording. It doesn't need a new sound card just let me set the levels manually, I'll use my own preamp.
2 give me a live histogram while recording. With the 5d mk II I can't tell if the video is properly exposed while shooting. Just looking good in the viewfinder isn't good enough give me a histogram. There is a work around -shoot a short clip of the scene then when viewing in the viewfinder hit the info button for a histogram- but a live one would be much better.
While I like what the majic lantern guys are doing (here) I'd like to see these 2 little things taken care of at Canon.
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-Stephen Alvarez