Yes, but who cares if the Digic 5 is faster if they didn't include the 50/60p mode? Look at the Nikon, uncompressed HDMI, AF, etc....

Canon did a great 5Dm2 4 years ago - since then, they are sleeping and others not only catch up, but got in front..

It obviously is a great still camera though.

One year ago I was torn between two options: Buying the 5D Mark II, a professional stills camera that shot beautiful video sadly plagued with serious issues or go the GH2 route, a tiny but decent stills camera that shot video sometimes not as beautiful out of the box but much less problematic. Finally I went the GH2 route because I couldn’t deal with moire an aliasing (the perceived resolution didn’t bother me that much) and I’m glad I did: The GH2 (specially the hacked one) is one hell of a movie camera and I do mostly fine-art and street photography so the RAW files from the camera with a little time in post are good enough 95% of the time.

But for those with a hybrid approach who also need a professional stills camera, I can see this 5D Mark III as a really enticing machine. Also the gentle highlight roll-off and superior dynamic range without the damn moire and aliasing issues are enough to make this an interesting filmmaking device.

the movie samples speak for them self : http://web.canon.jp/imaging/eosd/samples/eos5dmk3/

especially mario&nette

http://www.dxomark.com/index.php/Publications/DxOMark-Reviews/Canon-5D-Mark-III-Review/Hands-on-Review

Not bad, Intra frame ;-) No HDMI out bit of a bomb. Still its a good camera/HDSLR at full frame. I'll probably get one!

@Bueller: Actually I got it wrong.. 51 times more powerful than the Digic 4 (apparently).

A lot more power to play with for the magic lantern guys. It's enough to replace codecs/up the rate massively, run 4:4:4, high bit depths (14-bit from RAW - greater than what you can put over HDMI if someone wanted that), or run 4K even etc. If the memory bus could handle the rates that is, and of course if they could ever get that in depth with ML. Wouldn't hold my breath on it happening, but the hardware potential is all there now.

Here's hoping at the very least Canon have put in a proper down scaling filter instead of skipping.

It's also nice to have a greater than S35 sensor.. all those still manual lenses can be used to their full potential and provide their full FOV.

I haven't seen anything on the Canon site about HDMI, just others saying there's none.

Way too little bang for too much buck. Underwhelmed. The 5DX will be considerably more megapriced with the megapixels between MkIII and 1DX price. I think we can make that conclusion before its released.

1700 bucks more and all I got was a lousy headphone jack and 17minutes longer to record..... There's your t-shirt...

GH2 FTW!

I love Kai's videos -thx VK

Not bad. Considering a few years back I bought a simple video camera with 1/3" chips for that much, I mean, you get much value today if you want to film. If moire and aliassing is gone, you've got your cheap production camera with no worry if picture has artifacts. It's the price of a Canon XF100. But I have earlier mentioned that prices of these VDSLR were going up, because they are not going to give you perfect picture quality for cheap (that's why even at this price point no clean hdmi out). At least it's intra. I believe Panasonic will also step up price, although remain lower than Canon.

@Vitaliy_Kiselev I know you have worked hard to make the GH2 do wonders in video quality, but have you consider hacking this new camera? (please forgive if the question has been asked) I personally love the fact that your hack is using the update and I don't have to have the hack loaded on a SD card. For some reason people tend to like the canon look (maybe colors) more than the gh2, I'm just saying a hacked Mark III would be a beast. I'm a happy owner of 2 GH2's but man the headphone input is such a pain for me as most of my work is interviews and weddings. VK I can't thank you enough for all your work.