Comments on: 1D4 & 60D Tidbits [CR1]

By: ama

ama — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:48:40 +0000

D60 and 60D completely different

By: gps for cars

gps for cars — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:17:10 +0000

gps for cars…

Farmers, surveyors, geologists and countless others perform their work more efficiently, safely, economically, and accurately using the free and open GPS signals….

By: Bernd

Bernd — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:11:06 +0000

The german canon site has the manual for the D60:

http://www3.canon.de/pro/bda/fot/eos/
http://www3.canon.de/images/pro/fot/slr/geh/file/D60_HW_DE.exe

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Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:51:19 +0000

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By: Keith R

Keith R — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:31:28 +0000

“DR increased to levels where the Nikons are or beyond: You just got a sale.”

You’ll find that – with the sole exception of the new “toy” Nikon – Canon’s bodies beat the Nikons for DR across the board: certainly my 40D chews up and spits out the D300…

By: Zac

Zac — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:28:48 +0000

if you don’t want it don’t buy it. there may be a market for it. if the sales of some proposed ‘video kit lens’ add so much as a penny to the R&D for the stuff I do care about that’s enough reason to have it as far as I’m concerned.

Personally I find the idea silly, I don’t even know what a ‘video kit lens’ is. The close-mindedness he is referring to is the immediate disapproval of an idea whith which one is not sufficiently familiar to see its advantage, or has no personal use for. I think we should all try to be less close-minded, we might even learn a better way to make our images as a result

my $.02

By: Keith R

Keith R — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:23:37 +0000

It’s not “closed minded” – it’s knowing what we want (and what we *don’t* want), and it’s not being suckered in by every shiny new gadget that appears on a camera.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:04:15 +0000

As I said, if you enter fake data, and a person checks the location, you will be found out. Thats the beauty of it, anyone can go to the coordinates, you can even check on Google Satellite view.

By: Joe Decker

Joe Decker — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 03:14:32 +0000

Carl: The results on my iPhone vary quite drastically from yours. No idea on how that plays out on something with a serious battery, though. –j

By: Lu

Lu — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:11:11 +0000

Whats the problem with USB 3.0? If you think about it…How often does Canon update its xD bodies? And since it’ll have the video capabilites and all that stuff…large files too. So they are anticipating for the future. Though its not use now, but when 3.0 is widely available, the owner can transfer the data faster in the future. Its an easy and cheap upgrade for them. Why not do it now, then wait for the mrk5 to come out then do it. By then we’ll have USB 4.0.

By: Derek

Derek — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:40:21 +0000

Thanks for clearing that up. I currently only have zooms and am contemplating stepping into primes. Unfortunately not living in a capital city our local camera shops only carry the cheaper 50mm f1.8 in stock. Anything else I would have to order. I am contemplating the 50mm f1.2 but its a lot of money to outlay over and above the 50mm f1.4 without knowing whether there is really that much difference. I currently shoot weddings and a little studio work part time with a old 30D but have been hanging out to see what the 60D and the 1D come out with as to what I upgrade to next. The 5D Mark II really interested me as well but the FPS is holding me back from getting one. Any other wedding photographers have any suggestions?

By: Eddoe

Eddoe — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:51:48 +0000

Yea me to. I can only talk from my own experience.
NHL, NFL, Premiere Leauge, F1.
From Dec 2008 >now.
5DmkII with me all the time.
It’s all about rights. Otherwise we could hijack the stream and put it on our website directly.
It’s easy to do, but we haven’t got the rights to do it so our ass would sued.
Same thing if you put up a videoclip from an event when someone bought the rights for it.
I hope you can se the logic in it!

By: Joshh

Joshh — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:11:20 +0000

wow really? where did this happen :|
[i'm truly curious]

By: Justin

Justin — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:19:50 +0000

Price is part of progress. But yes, you are right, much of this has to do with getting more for less. However I do think that Canon has a whole between the 50D and the 5D in their lineup that people would be willing to pay $1700-$1900 retail for. Now if Canon gives us the model that we want for $1300 then it becomes a Nikon killer and leads the market for awhile.

60D
1.6x crop
50-3200 clean iso (6400 good, 12800 OK, 25600 barely)
7-9 fps
100% viewfinder
better autofocus with (yes) more points, 19 at least
better weather sealing
better DR
1080p Video at 24fps and 30 fps