Purported shots of Canon 5D Mark II surface online

Not a whole lot to go on here, but a user on the Digital Photography Review forums has turned up some shots of what appear to be a Canon 5D Mark II DSLR, shots that are made all the more curious by the fact that Canon has yet to announce such a camera. Of course, given that the regular EOS 5D is now getting on in years, it's certainly not out of the question, though we'd hold out for some firmer info before you start pinching pennies to save up for this sure-to-be-pricey bit of kit. Those looking to give it a closer examination can check out a shot of the camera's backside after the break.

[Drew @ Jul 6th 2007 4:23PM]

This was confirmed to be fake days ago. The evidence is here:
http://www.dslr-forum.de/showpost.php?p=2050051&postcount=70
http://www.dslr-forum.de/showpost.php?p=2050067&postcount=72

[ITR @ Jul 6th 2007 4:29PM]

Well that freaking sucks.

[ITR @ Jul 6th 2007 4:26PM]

Great news for me!

I was thinking about buying a 5D recently...now I know to hold off.

Give me a bigger viewfinder the current model, faster burst and fps, bigger LCD, better CMOS image sensor, 14-16mp(old camera is 12.8mp).

Still needs a Canon BG-E4 Battery Grip std.

[Zach @ Jul 6th 2007 8:37PM]

ahh, who cares about more Pixels?? We need less noise at higher ISO ratings and a higher dynamic range (maybe even build in support for HDR photography?).

[Chris @ Jul 6th 2007 7:47PM]

All the camera makers release models in August or September. PMA in Spring, Photokina (every even-year) in the Fall. Since the original 1D Sept-01, they've introduced the 1Ds (Sept-02), 300D (Aug-03), 20D (Aug-04), 1Ds MkII (Sept-04), 5D & 1D MkII (Aug-05), 400D (Aug-06). It's Canon's 20th Aniv for the EOS system. My Guess is 5D and 1Ds. 40D @ PMA'08.

[Sean @ Jul 6th 2007 4:36PM]

All of the Canon SLR's coming out lately have had the PictBridge button. This one doesn't. Even the 1d Mark III had one so it seems odd that this wouldn't.

[plchabot @ Jul 6th 2007 5:08PM]

New canon Dslr will be annouced in late august for a fall release. We can expect new 5D, new 40D (30D), every models that approach their 18th months.

[Darnell @ Jul 6th 2007 5:16PM]

Note to Engadget, while a number of rumors have been substanciated on DPReview.com One thing for certain is that when an image pops up it is more than likely a fake.

[Rich @ Jul 6th 2007 5:45PM]

It will replace a baume & mercier

[Ed T @ Jul 6th 2007 6:15PM]

Canon uses CMOS sensors. More pixels = smaller pixels = more noise. The 5D is great because it has bigger pixels like the old digital Rebel and this means lower noise. I use it for astrophotography and need the lowest possible noise. and besides, only L-series lenses have enough horizontal resolution for the existing 5D sensor, so what good is having more pixels if most lenses can't match the resolution?

[tom @ Jul 6th 2007 9:54PM]

I thought is was the chip that determined the horizontal resolution? I have one for work because I need to take full 180 degree fisheye images and the pro-sumer digital Rebel is not a full 35mm frame back chip so it crops the image. again just though it was the chip that did that not the lens.

it hurt to shell out the extra grand ($) for the 5D body when I only needed 1/8th more of the image top and bottom.

[doug @ Aug 25th 2007 7:36PM]

The noise scales inversely with the square root of the area of the photosensitive site. Improving the fill-factor of the pixel (minimizing the area that is not collecting photons) improves the noise, hence allows closer pitch without worsening noise. See the 1D MkIII for what to expect.
I have a 5D, and it appears to me that it does not comfortably exceed the resolving power of even my 70-300L IS, much less the best primes. For which I'm actually glad, since I'd rather upgrade cameras and Moore's law-dependent devices than hugely overpriced lenses. I'm waiting for self-correcting adaptive optics (and deformable
sensors).

[Kibi @ Jul 8th 2007 3:34AM]

test, sorry

[ateneum @ Jul 8th 2007 10:52AM]

Could someone please stop posting these fake pictures?
http://bildupload.sro.at/a/images/1-vorne.gif

[doug @ Aug 25th 2007 11:50PM]

I mispoke above; mistakes were made.
I meant the 28-300L IS, not 70-300.
Also, I should have made it clear that it's
the signal-to-noise ratio that scales with
the square-root of active area. The noise scales
linearly with area, but it's uncorrelated,
compared to the monotonically accumulating
image (the signal). So noise increases with
photodiode area, but not as much as signal.

[doug @ Aug 25th 2007 11:53PM]

signal+noise increases faster than noise. There, is that right?

[Nick @ Sep 6th 2007 9:47AM]

Just provide me with the weather proof body and self-cleaning sensor and I would have bought this camera 2 years ago when it first came out.

[Washington DC Photographer @ Nov 29th 2007 4:55PM]

Agree with Nick, weather proofing and a self-cleaning sensor would make this camera just about perfect, it's the closest thing to a film camera I've had in all the digital SLRs I've owned.