We finally got our Canon 5D Mark II camera body. I'm sure that it will be a great camera as we love our Canon 5D, original version. This one is 21 megapixels.
The feature that is really great is the video-related features. Yes, you can actually take HD video with the camera. But that's not the feature that has promise. If you plug the video out plug into the camera, it disables the LCD display on the back of the camera and instead outputs it to the wire. This means that you can plug the wire into a TV....or a portable TV or a portable DVD player with an A/V in. THAT opens up the great opportunity for get a small (5-7 inch) flat panel TV and drop a wire from the pole that we use to take our pole pictures. Thus, when you click on the remote trigger, the output will go directly to the portable TV and you can see the image that you just took!
There are still tests that we need to run like making sure the signal holds up over 20 feet of cable, and we need to get an inexpensive flat panel TV and use velcro to attach it to the pole. But that very simply output feature is going to provide immediate live viewing of the images that we're taking, and so that will be great. We COULD do this with the original 5D, but the only way to do it is to use a laptop and control the camera with the laptop, and we have never wanted to get that complicated.
Margaret Hokkanen, Encinitas Real Estate
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