Hmmm.....I don't know. I have just shot a TVC and part of a feature on it. The 30p looks great. Won't lose any sleep over 24p.

For what you pay the picture quality & lens selection blows anything else out of the water that I have shot with in the same ballpark.

I actually enjoy shooting on it more than Red as it's so small and fast to work with.

A 24p firmware update would also give me the final push needed to make the purchase. But I don't think this will sway Canon any faster because the 5D Mark II is backordered just about anywhere you search.

With all this talk of 24p...I feel the need to champion the cause for 29.97 which is the NTSC standard at this point. 30p necesitates a conversion of both video and audio when used in conjunction with other broadcst standard video sources. The conversion slows the editorial work flow down. Video needs conversion thru compressor and audio needs either a slowdown of .1% (which is good only for short clips) or to be processed by cinema tools. A big PITA.

With all this talk of 24p...I feel the need to champion the cause for 29.97 which is the NTSC standard at this point. 30p necesitates a conversion of both video and audio when used in conjunction with other broadcst standard video sources. The conversion slows the editorial work flow down. Video needs conversion thru compressor and audio needs either a slowdown of .1% (which is good only for short clips) or to be processed by cinema tools. A big PITA.Agreed. The bigger problem, though, is when you try to cut the camera with 29.97 sources. We can't slow down the audio when we show a 29.97 camera. That means we either have to drop frames from the 5D2, or we have to waste time calculating when we can and can't slow the audio.

Wasting creative talent solving arbitrary technical problems is the last place artists want to spend their time. Bring on 24p, 25p - and 29.97 (please).