Comments on: 1D Mark III & 1Ds Mark III Done? [CR1]

By: Jane

Jane — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:06:00 +0000

I shoot all kinds of stuff with all kinds of cameras. I am a working photographer who shoots for advertising and corporate client as well as to make images for my own books about photography. Over the last two years I’ve been using small cameras like the Canon G10 and the SX10 for more and more of my work. In the studio, shooting set up shots or small products these cameras shine by dint of their easy to use Live View and increased depth of field. When I bought the SX 10 it was for the long range of the zoom lens which meant I could shoot anything from a construction site to tight shots of the cabins at the top of the construction cranes. I’ve done some portraits with studio lights and an SX10 and they were also very usable. I wish the SX 10 and SX 20 had raw file capability but they don’t. That just means I have to be a bit more careful about WB and exposure. I’ve used the SX10 at outdoor swim meets and found that the lens performs better than expected right out to the end.

By: Grey

Grey — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 22:53:14 +0000

The “direct print button” exaggerations in these threads are getting old.

By: Stubb

Stubb — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 22:51:13 +0000

Not gonna happen.

By: Nigel

Nigel — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 08:17:04 +0000

Convergence makes sense. With FF in both heritage D and heritage Ds I can see a good deal of commonality. But would moving D from APS-H to FF really make for convergence?

I can see room for both FF D (lower resolution, higher frame rate) and FF D (higher resolution, lower frame rate). Hell, even throw in electronic crop on the D, I can live with (or without) that. But would this really call for both lines to be EOL’ed at the same time?

By: Glass Man

Glass Man — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:32:05 +0000

Celebrating their 50th Anniversary of the SLR by knocking people’s socks off at year end -
Nikon better hold on to their hat.

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:27:27 +0000

I think the 1DsIV could be a medium format competitor at around 32 mpx with the 1DIV doing nicely at 16. That would be significant differentiation. Now all we’d need are 64 gb Sandisk Extreme V’s to handle those 80mb files.

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:18:44 +0000

ma sentimonies exarctly

By: Glass Man

Glass Man — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:04:00 +0000

Plus a 135 f2 II to go with that 35 f1.4 II !!

By: Glass Man

Glass Man — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:52:56 +0000

I like the way you think.

By: J-Man

J-Man — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:35:50 +0000

I have no Ef-s glass, not that I wouldn’t like some of it,
just that I plan on going FF soon and Ef-s has no upgrade path… a dead end.
now if Canon made the xxD line pro quality, with full weather sealing, pro AF, and a higher grade Ef-s line…

By: J-Man

J-Man — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:25:35 +0000

“the ability to transform into a printer”
and an iPod, cellphone, gps unit, and a beer cooler. :-P

By: Christian

Christian — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:16:58 +0000

Exit 1DIII and 1DsIII

Enter 1D m, v, whatever

FF
24mp @ 5 fps ~ RAW
12mp @ 10 fps ~ sRAW (crop or not I dont care)
1 serie body
video

Let’s converge everyone. It’s gonna be fun!

By: Zac

Zac — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:26:45 +0000

By: Zac

Zac — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:26:28 +0000

I agree, but if 1D and 1Ds lines are both FF, and very similar they’re just developing one camera and two different sensors, plus two lenses and a XXD body, which is mostly a tweak and a little upgrade, not really a redesign like the 1D will be and you’re done, seems doable to me, though it might be spread out over a little bit.