Comments on: 1D Mark IV Press Release

By: Paul Smith Shoes

Paul Smith Shoes — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:28:52 +0000

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By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 05:06:12 +0000

Trust me. This IS a problem. I lose pictures all the time. It should hav been at least 45 frames in RAW. RAM ain’t that expensive now a days. This is not good enough Canon!!!

By: David

David — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:49:40 +0000

HD has nothing to do with it, taking it out will not give you 50 frames as HD is not stealing them from you.

By: Isurus

Isurus — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:02:30 +0000

1Ds Mark IV will be out before the 5DMII and probably in the next 6 months. I’d expect the 5DMIII 12 months or so after that.

By: 50/50

50/50 — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:00:20 +0000

I’m not doubting the benefit of 21 megapixel, and will never settle for cropped again, if anything I’d move to larger formats as I still prefer the look of medium format (even on film) to 35mm digital. Just don’t particularly enjoy the feeling of not being certain my camera’s af is up for the task of auto focusing. I’d say the 5dII has better IQ then anything else in the 35mm category and untouched by anything else in and above it’s price range. But when a 20D separated by 5 years of R&D has a more responsive and accurate af, I begin to question some of canon’s decision making. Not that they didn’t hit the nail on the head in terms of making a camera they can sell a crapload of, just wondering how hard it would have been for them to put in a slightly better af.

By: Jochystarz

Jochystarz — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:08:25 +0000

Ask Anthony Turano and some other high Fashion Shooters why they had switch from the nikon D300 to the 5DmkII, well let me tell you why, when you’re asked to shoot a model for a billboard add, you’ll be surprise what 21mp vs 12mp difference makes when high resoultion is important, and still a lot of people do not think so, they just want IQ even at 10mp, but what you can do with that, can’t even decently crop a 10×8. so yes the 5DmkII may be s bit sluggish when it comes to the AF, that will improve down the road believe me, 7D improved AF is a guinney-pig of what’s to come on future canon models. 7D is already on my next upgrade list then the 5DmkIII its gonna be its big brother to compliment for my inmediate futuristic needs, no need to go to 1D terrain … i’ll leave that to magazine and rich SOB photogs !

By: W

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:30:36 +0000

If it can clear the buffer quickly into a fast CF card it could help alleviate the low buffer.. I’m wondering why that wasn’t improved too though

By: W

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:26:56 +0000

it’s great when people put ridiculous facts / comparisons in their criticism. Makes it easier to filter out the real opinions from the bs.

By: W

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:24:57 +0000

The dedicated video button isn’t really all that. I admit it’s cool to have but it’s still a two step process to get video started.

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:14:36 +0000

OK,I’ll get one. But I was ready to pop for two if it had been full frame. I’ll keep my Mark III and finally sell my last Mark II. I won’t go the FF 5D route just because I want to keep the batteries and brackets the interchangable. Having a split battery system for the past 18 months has been a headache on a couple of jobs. But I am really geeked out over the landscape/vertical auto focus point swap. That’s something that will speed up my shooting about 100 times a wedding.

By: 50/50

50/50 — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:07:53 +0000

I too was a little shocked at that, and was likewise dissapointed with it in the 7D, I’m not in the taget market for either of these camera’s as I don’t use machine gun mode much myself. But raw is why I shoot digital… and to me a sports orientated camera that only has space for 26 photos in raw on it’s buffer is a bit odd… I get the uber fast cards supposedly compensating for this, but I’ve found that with the 5dII even with a fast card the buffer doesn’t feel any bigger, maybe the 1dIV writes faster, but it seems like a bit of silly thing to be relient on when a bigger buffer really wouldn’t be that hard to put in.

I’ve got a question though, does using the smaller raw files fit you more on the buffer? or does it slow it down like on the nikon?

By: 50/50

50/50 — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:00:51 +0000

Well, I agree that the camera is very specifically targeted and for most of it’s targeted market it’s very appropriate, but I myself find a 5d mk2 a bit slow for fashion, not in terms of fps, just the responsiveness of the body. Not to mention even the center point AF is inaccurate about 30% of the time, often not by much, but enough to make 21 MP fairly useless. I’m happy with anything over 15 megapixel personally, but a full frame with half decent af (I mean I have an old 20D that feels more responsive then a 5dII) would be super, I don’t want 10fps, or full weather sealing, and I can even live without 100% VF, but a 21 MP body with inaccurate AF… not to mention slow is a tad redundant, which is a shame considering the body puts out what are in my opinion the highest quality files in the 35mm dslr market.

By: Yep

Yep — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:17:20 +0000

+10000

By: lulz

lulz — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:16:41 +0000

Sure, it’s very old school. I’m sure it’s preventing you from creating quality images right?