Comments on: 1D News From The Netherlands

By: Ulrike Hauber

Ulrike Hauber — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:32:42 +0000

yea nice Work

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By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 14:16:43 +0000

Has anyone heard of a new 1Ds Mrk 4 from Canon? I’m looking at buying a new 1D but I would rather wait if a Canon are coming out with a new 1D.

Thanks

Steve

By: JohnG

JohnG — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:53:22 +0000

End of October…1D Mark IV.

By: regular

regular — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:58:34 +0000

A good resource about lens design, compromise between resolution and max aperture is Erwin Puts’s website on Leica lens designs :
http://www.imx.nl/photo/index.html

A f/1.4 lens should be sharper than a f/1.2 lens @ f/1.4. Unfortunately, Canon does not achieve that.

Additionally, you can calculate how shallow is your lens on this site :
http://www.dofmaster.com/dofjs.html

A f/1.2 lens is not something impossible to use.
Anyway, Leica recently released a Noctilux f/0.95 lens, and Voigtlander is selling a Nokton (I love those names!) f/1.1.

By: Me, and only me

Me, and only me — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:44:04 +0000

Not that I have any f1.2 lenses (I wish), but surely the advantage is not that they have a wider aperture, but they’ll get sharper at wider apertures as you stop down?

By: Me, and only me

Me, and only me — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:24:14 +0000

Or how badly they got burned, perhaps?

By: Ted

Ted — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:11:32 +0000

It doesn’t stand to reason at all. Stick an f/8 lens on your non-1D body and let us know how your theory works out for you.

By: David

David — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:51:07 +0000

or they can make a DSLR RED killer.

The whole reason people love the 5D2 for video is because of the lenses and the non-video look you get with them. Coming out with a new camcorder is going to be like “so what?” if it doesn’t give me what the DSLR’s can. So they make another $4000 prosumer camcorder and give it 4K output, I’m not going to buy it when I can get better looking video from the 5D2 even if it is only 1080p.

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:32:40 +0000

Stands to reason that at a sufficiently low f-stop focusing will become harder. Sure you have more light, but with a very low f-stop the depth of field is going to get to a point where there will only be a very small part of the image where there is a contrasting edge for the focus to latch on to, and any movement backwards and forwards is going to make things worse.

Now whether this happens at f1.2 I don’t know, but I expect that it’s easier to focus with the 50mm f/1.4

The 50mm L lenses really are a waste of $,£

By: Wedge

Wedge — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:39:09 +0000

Odd conclusion. Did you think they would use the same af-system? Only Nikon does that, and that company is bleeding like a stabbing victim on warfarin.

By: Ted

Ted — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:48:27 +0000

And my problem is that I have a 40D that cannot autofocus properly. I’ve had all the lenses calibrated, the body calibrated and the lenses calibrated to the body in three separate returns to Canon service. It still did not work properly: it cannot focus on blue or green things, only red things–seriously.

The body is back with Canon now; a fourth attempt in ten months to get it right. I fully expect them to claim it is OK (yet again), for it not to work properly (yet again) and for a fifth round of servicing. However, they told me that if it doesn’t work this time, they’ll “consider” a replacement. I’m hoping they’ll have a spare 7D knocking about the office that day. ;-)

By: regular

regular — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:38:05 +0000

My problem being I have a 40D and I just dont want to upgrade to a newer camera before every issues is fixed.
40D => no micro-calibration.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:29:26 +0000

Ditto on the “depends what you’re doing with it” statement.

I frequently sell a burst of sports action images because of the “cool” factor. If photo two and six are out of focus I loose the sale of the string… so instead of selling 6 images I might sell one… When it means money out of your pocket for an expensive camera body AND that body doesn’t perform… that’s a double hit to the wallet, one that someone trying to survive on solely on photographic income cannot afford.

As soon as I heard there were “problems” with the autofocus on the Mark 3 I stayed away. I even considered a wholesale swap to the Nikon D3 but the Nikon people are such “niceholes” that it pains me to even think I considered that.