daytonabeach
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Location: Oslo, Norway
| A far as i remember, you choose the spot you want in focus before you start rec, and it will maintain autofocus there, at least it kept autofocusing quite well during recording.
For manual you simple switch of the autofocus on the lens and use your hands like you do for the regular slr use, it was demoed with the Canon 85L lens, thats a mean lens, and the good thing is that you can of course use the same lenses for both stills and videos.
But im also certain they COULD, if they wanted to, pack it full of the same features that a dedicated HD cam has, but i think that would be a later model called 5D mkIII ;-)
Remember, they are already a big step ahead of Nikon (once again) and would probably save the goodies for the next round...
But as i mentioned earlier, i consider this a great upgrade on the 5D itself, along with a pretty good HD feature for "snap" shooting or when you wish you had your HD cam with you, and still are able to shoot pretty good stuff with it, and the price arent even higher than it probably would have cost without the HD feature 
Rhett, a couple of times a year i do a clean out from my 6 hard drives, delete the stuff i dont need, and burn the more important stuff to dvds, then i usually gain 50% extra space on the drives again, and i always double the backup of course, but im saving for a cool noiseless raid system;
http://www.g-technology.com/Products/G-SAFE.cfm
By the way, USB 3 is soon available with 10 times faster transfer than usb 2, which means almost 5 GIGABITS per second 
And did you also know that you can by 64GB memory card now?
Well, that was this weeks gadget news 
Never argue with an idiot, he'll drag you down to his level and beat you with experience... |
, so I consider this to be an annoyance, not a show stopper.
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