Canon Rumors

Canon S6 IS

The Canon S6 IS should be announced sometime in June and ready to ship sometime in the summer.

Specs:
Resolution: 10mp
Sensor: CCD
Zoom: 15x (28-420)
Flash shoe: Yes
Memory: SD
Battery: Dedicated Li-Ion
Screen: 2.5″ articulating
Body: Rubberized gripping & lighter weight
Ergonomics: Jog wheel introduced
Image Type: RAW & Jpeg

This camera will NOT be a CMOS sensored camera. Look for Canon to put their CMOS P&S sensors in the G line first. That will upset a few.

Canon will announce this camera at the same time as the SX200. The G9 probably won't be announced until Photokina if Canon does 2 rounds of announcements. Rumors suggest Canon will do a P&S announcement and an SLR announcement on separate dates.

Other Products:
Look for Canon to announce a 430EX II as well as a 250EX. The 250EX will be for compact cameras… ideally the S6 IS and G10. It'll also work with previous cameras with flash shoes. It's about time.

Adobe Creative Suite 4

A good article about what to expect from the next version of CS. The GPU acceleration and finally a 64bit version looks very promising.

I use 64bit Vista (yeah yeah..) and 8gb of RAM and an 8800GTX.. it'd be really nice to utilize that stuff a lot more. I'd like to see Lightroom do the same thing.

Word is it'll come on 3 50gb Blu-Ray discs and require a terabyte of disc space to install. 100gb of the install will be Adobe “goodies”.

http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/37611/140

Canon 24-70 f/2.8L IS is coming!

24-70 Update
I've been told that a local photography store has been told to rid themselves of the 24-70 and be very selective in ordering more. When they're told stuff like this it usually means there's something to replace it coming along.

A new 24-70 2.8L IS would be the perfect zoom lens for wedding photographers and a walkaround on the 5D MkII. It does make Nikon look silly for not putting VR in theirs. Canon will introduce this lens at the same price or less than Nikon's overpriced version.

I've used the Nikkor 24-70 on a D3 and compared it side by side with the 1D Mark III (mine focuses) and Canon's 24-70… there is no reason in the world it should cost more.

Canon 18-200
Canon will not be introducing a 18-200 to the marketplace, against the desires of many amateur photographers.

The reason for not making one is simple… to make one right, the lens would cost $2000 and up. Nikon's version isn't a very good lens and Sigma's is downright awful. Just take a peak at the price of the 28-300 f/3.5-5.6L from Canon.. $2400 or so.

Nikon's 18-200 is barely better optically that the new D60 kit lens. Canon wouldn't be able to make an $800 lens perform any better than the 18-55 IS/55-250 IS combination.

Canon 5D Mark II available in stores in November?

Amazon & Wiley have a listing for the 5D Mark II field guide. Wiley shows a release date in November.

Amazon

Wiley

I can't wait to pick that book up. I wish I had thought of just rewriting the manual and selling it as a book…. genius!

Teaming up with NikonRumors.com

Canon Rumors and Nikon Rumors are going to be working in a small partnership to market our sites.

I haven't been overly active recently due to stuff like babies and work, I will be once the site relaunches with a new design June 1st, 2008.

Anyway, head over there to see the direction Canon's biggest competition could be heading. The Nikon Rangefinder sounds very interesting.

Later.

Canon Rebel XS/1000D Specs!!

According to Photography Bay….

10.1mp
7 Focus Points
2.5″ LCD
3FPS
Live View
Same Menu System as XSi
$549 Pricepoint (Expect to see it at $499 for Christmas with lens)

No word on the IS lens.

Canon Rebel XS/1000D

Rebel XS/1000D Specs
For a $499 rebel, what would the specs be?

Resolution: 10mp
AF Points: 5 (Maybe 7)
Live View: No
Lens: 18-55 non-IS (Have to leave some major selling points for the XSi)
LCD: 2.7″
Memory: SD
FPS: 2.5

This camera obviously has to be toned down to not steal any sales from XSi's. I would expect a slightly lesser build than the XSi, maybe none of that rubber gripping that is so nice.

1D Mark III
I just received one and it doesn't seem to have any trouble auto focusing.

EOS Utility still busted?
Anyone else have a problem with EOS Utility not loading in Vista? It was just updated on the 13th and still doesn't work for me.

Canon Rebel XS / 1000D

Is there a new Rebel in the pipeline for Christmas? With Nikon dropping prices on the D40 to below some P&S's, and Pentax readying a replacement to the K100D (apparently the K200D isn't it.. so says a salesrep) that will cost about $14, it only makes sense that Canon will look to upgrade the XT to something a little more appealing.

All this came about with a leaked model name in Canon's latest version of DPP.

What are the specs? who knows? I wouldn't be surprised at all to see the XT being shown the door.

http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/13/cano … -xs-1000d/