Eaven i love my GH2, Canon make one thing right. Body of canon cams like 7D and 5D is awesome. Well shield and not so palstic like in GH2.

@trayloader - your negativity is becoming tiresome. We get it - you won't be buying one.

@Trayloader

It may be using a pre-production version, but I think you get a much better reference of the 5DMkII vs 5DMkIII by using the comparison earlier linked to for Imaging-Resource.

Same scene, same ISOs, etc.

5DMarkII http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/E5D2/E5D2THMB.HTM

5DMarkIII http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/canon-5d-mkiii/canon-5d-mkiiiTHMB.HTM

@trayloader, I wouldn't put so much stock in a few random web test shots of unknown origin/processing to determine whether to change camera systems. If it's really a step back in image quality it will be a big story, but I'd say it's still too early to tell.

The test I always make myself are high contrast setups, with large dark areas, and very fine detail and grain. Fruit and rouded objects, fine texturized textiles or wood. In one picture says it all. Unfortunately letsgodigital test is not the best they could set up... When noise looks like film grain it is really helping in printing larger files. When nosie kills dark areas it is BAD..

sorry i didn't mean to hijack topic. all i need is one information.not enough to start new .

@trayloader I plan to remove gh2 aa filter . can you tell me something about aliasing and moire in video . is there too much of them or is hd usable . can u post some snapshots from video . i saw pictures from gh1 with aa removed and they are magnificent . thanks

Hi my dears.... I step in. Sorry for my bad english, I'm Italian, I hope the message will arrive nonetheless. I was really waiting for the 5D3, like a lot of us. I'm an hybrid photographer, interaction, video and still. Together. I dedicated last 14 years to develop and push further panoramic interactive pictures, so my needs for a camera are peculiar and narrowed. So that my biggest blessing were always the HACKS, needed to transform a camera in a "special" tool. I own Nikon, Canon, FF and APSC, Sony, Panasonic and Olympus... I did serious paid jobs with hacked Canon compact cameras! In a FF hybrid I'd love to have as many GOOD pixel I can get, the best dynamic possible, the best results possible between iso 100 and 800, an usable 1600-3200, the best, cleanest and usable video out. On axis tripod socket, full tethering and small size are NOT an option. I will need to touch, try and stress 5D3 to know what it is good for, as well as D800 and D800E. From the paper the D800 wins, no match. But if it is true the moire in video is so bad, and if it is so even in the "clean" hdmi... well, no way. Today a 5D2 with magic lantern hack IS a a wonderful tool!!! Will it still be better than 5D3? And GH2 with hack is the right complement, being more videocamera and less moviecamera, filling different gaps and situations. So.. let's relax and WAIT for the results, for the v.1.1 firmwares, for the field tests we will do.

Knowing the video world, C300, Panny AF101, and Sony NEX V20 - CineAlta have their own place that will never be taken. they are thought to be video cameras only, they adress all video concern, they can be handheld and operated in a video-recording environment without all the rigs, addons and stuff, they have the right manual knobs in the right places. The main trigger shoots a video, and not a picture. Our Vdslr perfectly fit and match some specific needs and places, they develope their unique language, they have to be intended for what they are.

Peace&Love. Luca.

If You launch, or even tease a new camera in this supertight market, PR wise everything has to be bulletproof, or else you fail big time.This company now has a meagre MP improvement to its predecessor, but they completely fail at this point to separate their product from the competition, ergo they have no USP at this point.Combine that with the sub par, amateurish photos and even worse cheap ass videofootage, You have a recipe for pros to leave for another brand.We constantly need "cropability" of our picture, our Artdirectors and commercial clients require that. 22MP after 4 years simply is not enough.

@leftedit

Let's try to keep the level. Not use some unfounded emotions and not turn all this into fanboys chat :-)

5D MIII is very good camera, and it is full frame.

Have to chime in- as for me, I am leaving CANON after 13 years. Too little, too late. If You saw the still results from the D3X, one can only assume how huge the leap to the D800 will be. Seeing the above Canon footage now, soft with the same old, same old aliasing we´re used to, plus the fact that part of the hype is created with no downloadable RAW and a politically neutral brand ambassador like LaForet,as a pro, I decided to move on.I´m shure quite some pros agree with me,and will do the same. Canon either have manufacturing problems, or were hit hard on their Fukushima factory.Something must have happened.

Sad.

At 91Mbps, a 5DM3 24p Intra video stream will average about 3.8Mbit per frame. That ranges on the low end of the max I-frame size of high-bitrate GH2 patches. At the top of the range, I've seen the GH2 hit peaks of 9Mbit per frame. However, an all-Intra codec that could hit those kind of peaks would require over 200Mbps.

But no matter, it's the timecode that will sell this camera.

@ignatius I here your point, but not everything in a shot (shadows..) will have enough light to overcome noise levels. Noise can be seen in ISO160 ideal exposure shots crawling in the shadows. I certainly want cameras to improve in noise levels... Also, (as you mentioned) regardless of noise levels, lighting is needed for crafting a look over flat lighting.