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» Canon announces the 5D Mark II

 

Canon has now announced the EOS 5D Mark II, which is a truly spectacular camera, at least from what we can see this far. It features a full frame 21 megapixel CMOS sensor with DICIC IV processor. It has an ISO range from a low 50 to a remarkable 25600 (extended range). The maxium shooting speed though is 3.9 frames per second, making it pretty useless for any type of sports photography. Naturally it’s got a 3" screen with live view and three types of autofocus, including face detection. Now perhaps the most remarkable thing about this is that it can shoot in full HD video quality, 1080p, H.264 in up to 12 minutes per clip (VGA, H.264, 24 minutes per clip). That’s just an outstanding feature.

The Canon EOS 5D Mark II will be available at the end of November for $2700, body only, or with the 24-105 L lens for $3500.

For more information and goodness about this one, check out the first preview of the camera on DP Review. Also check out my buddy Jason’s overview of the new release.

» Monday News Tidbits

Today seems to be gadget day with most news being about some of the coolest gadgets available right now!

D3 and D300 Stuff, site + review

• Starting off in the camera news, brought to you by the amazing wildlife photographer, Moose Peterson is an entire little (or not so little after all) site about the D that has just been released with more stuff being added along the way according to Moose. So go and have a look at the D3 Site!
• Following the news of the cameras in Nikon’s latest release we have a great review by Terry White on the Nikon D300 camera posted today over at his blog! It’s based on his first impressions with using the camera for about a week now and he really seems to be liking it a lot. So if you are in the market for a D300 or just want to read up on it, go and read Terry’s review right here!

New Web Design tutorials coming!

So I’ve begun to write a couple of highly requested web design tutorials for the site here and the first one to be released is a tutorial on how to make a stylish portfolio header right in Photoshop that we’ll use to build an entire portfolio site, right in Photoshop! So go to the tutorial section and check it out!

Learn to polish up your vector art in Photoshop!

The amazing illustration guru, Nick La has posted up a very cool tutorial or article on how he uses Adobe Photoshop to polish up his vector art made in Illustrator. I found it very interesting and cool to read so if you are interested you should definitely take a look at it here!