I’m not sure if it’s because I’ve never bought a camcorder and missed transferring thousands of hours of video over to 500 VHS tapes of my son growing up, the fact that this has way more megapixels than I’ll ever need or the fact that the 5D Mark II is a much better camera than I’ve ever owned.  All I know is the high definition video this DSLR camera can take is outstanding and has people drooling.

There’s all sorts of chatter on the net about what this camera can offer, so I won’t bore you with the details.  Instead, here are some quick links to the awesome videos that are being posted out there.  Click on any of the images below to see the videos.

Hands down, the best video to surface yet:

I never thought I’d want to own a camera and video recorder combo.  In fact, I’ve never wanted a point and shoot camera, just because I’d rather focus on photography and have a selection of lenses to choose from for the right moment.  The quality of these videos is changing my mind.  If I owned this, it would be a nice feature great feature to have, but I believe I’d still primarily shoot photos.  I came pretty close to replacing my stolen camera with the 5D, but I would have had to give up a lens or two.  I wasn’t about to cut my legs, so the 30D was the right choice at that time.  The extra features the 5D and now the 5D Mark II has over the 30D, as far as photography is concerned, is awesome in its own right.  The video capabilities would just be added icing on the cake for me.