It's been obvious from day one that it was possible, but after a couple of years of oh-so-painful 30 FPS recording on the EOS 5D Mark II, Canon is finally coming through with its long-promised 2.0.3 update that brings 29.97 FPS and 24 FPS (23.976, to be precise) 1080p recording at last. Even the VGA mode has been swapped to a 29.97 actual rate, and PAL mode has a flat 25 FPS and 23.976 FPS as well. Additional tweaks include a manual volume adjustment (as opposed to the automatic gain the cameras usually employ), a brightness or RGB histogram display (this function, like some of these other features, has been available for a while as a hack), shutter and aperture priority modes have been added for movie shooting, and the audio sampling ramp has been bumped from 44.1KHz to 44KHz.

You can find the firmware here: Canon EOS 5D MKII 2.0.3 firmware update

View Explorer of Light Vincent Laforet's hauntingly beautiful short video, Reverie, shot entirely with the EOS 5D Mark II and EF Lenses.

Tags: EOS 5D MKII, 24p, 25p, 5d MKII 2.0.3 firmware update