Sold Canon 5d mkII, Battery grip, EG-S focus screen, Zacuto finder, extras

[David A. Goldfarb]

Canon 5D Mark II purchased new around 2010 and in good working order.

Comes with an upgraded Eg-S focusing screen installed and the original screen in the box
BG-E6 battery grip holds one or two LP-E6 type batteries or the battery magazine for 6 AAs
Zacuto Z-Finder (focusable magnifying loupe for LCD screen)
Two 64Gb Compact Flash cards, one with standard formatting and the other with Magic Lantern installed
Original charger with original Canon LP-E6 battery
Three USB A to mini USB cables
A/V breakout cable
UPDATE: Mini-HDMI to regular HDMI cable included
Original box with CDs and manuals in English and Spanish and unused original strap.

Rubber port covers are long gone.

Magic Lantern is particularly handy for video. Standard cine overlays like focus peaking and false color to show over/under exposure are available, or clear all overlays for clean HDMI output (for instance, to use it as a webcam with a dongle like the Elgato 4K HDMI-USB adapter), or reduce bitrate to extend recording time limit with only minor loss in quality. If you don't like it, just reformat the card for the standard OS, and if you really like it, then format the other card for ML.

The Zacuto Z-finder improves focusing accuracy with the LCD screen and is a nice option for focusing in dark environments, when it can be hard to see through the regular viewfinder. There are extenders that you can add or remove to adjust for your eyesight and a helical for fine focus.

Even though the original CDs are included, I recommend downloading the latest versions of the software and drivers from Canon. Firmware is updated to latest version.

Check my other ads for the WFT-E4IIA wireless file transfer module for this camera.

I've used this camera for all kinds of still photography and some video. Most recently, I've been using this camera as the B-cam in my vlogging setup. Whenever you see me in 3/4 profile, that's this camera recording at 1080p, 25fps, 80% bitrate in Magic Lantern with a Zeiss Distagon 35mm f:2.0 ZS lens (heavily compressed by YouTube)--



It's not as advanced as the latest cine cameras, of course, but it still produces the beautiful footage that made it the first DSLR considered suitable for professional digital cinematography. And for still photography, 21 megapixels is still plenty for most commercial purposes, even though there are higher resolution cameras.

Selling to clear some space and cover part of the cost of the camera that's replacing this one.

$425 plus shipping.

 

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[David A. Goldfarb]

Update: I found a spare mini-HDMI to regular HDMI cable and will include it.

 

[David A. Goldfarb]

Update: I found an extra original Canon LP-E6 battery and will include that instead of the aftermarket battery originally listed. As a lagniappe, you can have a 1Gb CF card that I originally paid I don't know how much for to use with my Nikon Coolpix 990 around 2001. Long after the Nikon outlived its useful life, I used to use this card with this camera for scanning documents on a copy stand that didn't have to be particularly high res. In fact the lowest resolution, maximum compression on the camera is perfect for that, and then all the document scans (hundreds, maybe thousands of pages will fit on 1Gb) are on a separate card, so you don't have to worry about keeping them separate from your photos or video on your main cards.

 

[David A. Goldfarb]

Moved to auction--

Canon EOS 5d Mark II Camera, battery grip, Eg-S focusing screen, Zacuto finder | eBay

Zacuto Z-Finder (focusable magnifying loupe for LCD screen). There are extenders that you can add or remove to adjust for your eyesight and a helical for fine focus. Firmware is updated to latest version.

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[David A. Goldfarb]

People have asked about the shutter count. Judging from the still photo filenames, I'm estimating 16,618, but I'm not sure how it counts video. I still shoot digital like it was film. I've never been a "spray and pray" kinda guy. The official conservative rating for this shutter is 150,000 exposures, so it's probably got plenty of life left in it.

About 3 hours to go, and it's at $285. Could be a great deal. The Zacuto finder will work on other cameras with 3" screens, and new that's a $395 accessory.