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Last week, Canon USA technical adviser Chuck Westfall briefly addressed the 5D Mark II owners that having the Black Dots issues to stay put for an announcement. Today, it came though; a service bulletin has been posted on Canon Australia web site addressing the increasingly heated topics. Unfortunately, it doesn’t provide solution nor a firmware fix to the problem, but does provide steps to reduce the appearance of the clustering spots. On a positive note, Canon has acknowledged the issues and said there’s a work in progress to investigating both the vertical banding and black dots problems.

[update : Canon is working on a Firmware update according to this service notice from Canon Japan ]

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Though not as serious as the Mark III’s auto-focus disaster, the black dots are persistent on the new Canon 5D squeal. Frustrated photographers took it up with USA technical adviser Chuck Westfall at The Digital Journalist and the man spoke, “Watch for an official Canon comment on this issue in the very near future”

RG, in his brief interview with Westfall, also confirmed Canon is prepping to address the 5D mark II’s black dots debacle that’ve been widely spread on numerous community forums. No further details were disclosed but it would be a positive announcement. Well, if they’ve learned anything from Mark III; it’s wiser to break silence on founded technical difficulties, another case of lack-of-response could be the last straw that breaks the camel’s back.

[photo credit : Stephan Hoerold]

Canon took a huge beating on its latest Mark III DSLRs’ flagships with the controversial Auto-Focus snafu. Make no mistake; the newest release and much-promising 5D sequel if continue to face technicalities, will tear them into pieces, losing more prominent domination in pro as well as prosumer markets. Early reports in favor of the improved AF, white balance and high ISO sensitivity despite the increased sensor sizes; however, like most cameras at its initial rollout, 5D mark II can’t escape the early-adopter bugs.

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A heads-up on the year most anticipated Digital SLR, Canon USA will be shipping the Canon EOS 5D mark II to networked dealers staring tomorrow. That means some of you early adopters should get their hands on the first shipment by the end of the week! Unlike the Canadian’s price raise, Canon sticks to the schedule and plan for US launch, it will be selling at original retail price of $2,699.

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The latest development is still late November before you can get your hands on the revolutionary EOS 5D Mark II. While we wait patiently for our unit, the manufacturer has released a complete manual for the year most anticipate release in Digital Cameras industry, stills and motions- a game changing camera, said the reviewer.

In previous coverages, readers have raised questions mainly on the video features such as exposure control and recording capacity. We flipped though 228 pages of goodies and listed the answers here.

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