5D MKII samples by Vincent Laforet

Interesting, they all look soft or slightly out of focus. Wonder if that's a problem with the autofocus not working correctly or of Canon using too strong of an AA filter.

Are tese actual photo captures? or capturres from the video mode?

I checked a couple of shots. The TS shot and the 50/1.2 shot have a lot of camera movement in them making them very soft. A lot of the shots are in low light so I suspect many of them could be soft. The 85/1.2 L shot has extremely narrow depth of field and focus is somewhere on the chin (centre of face) rather than the eye. So eyes and ears are soft but stuble on chin is very sharp. All of these images are poor for evaluating sharpness. They may be useful in evaluating bokeh but I have already lost interest in the subject matter.

"Are tese actual photo captures? or capturres from the video mode?"

These are 21 mpixel still images, video stills are about 2 mpixel.

"too strong of an AA filter." I doubt it, as they usually go with a weaker AA, I think it is the SW noise reduction that is washing out some of the detail, comparing psoted 50D RAWs and JPEGs looks like Canon updated their image processing engine with D!GIC4 which now includes rather strong noise reduction compared to what they had before...

Not a camera test more a lens test.

I`d agree John, lot of camera shake, 1/5th sec wide open another 1/20s, nothing to benchmark here :)

I agree entirely. I have followed Vincent's work on Reverie with the 5D2 all the way through. The shutter speeds on these examples are way too low to be meaningful samples for evaluation. The guy was making a film under immense working pressure, taking photos were the last thing on his mind at the time. The movie was utterly exceptional and shoes the powerful capability of the 5D2 but we need to look elsewhere for good sample photographs.

"lot of camera shake, 1/5th sec wide open " I think he was using a tripod, otherwise the photo would be blurry as hell.