Archive for November, 2009

PowerShots – A2100 Done

A2100 Discontinued
Received word today that the A2100 is discontinued and all stock is depleted.

This will be the first of many PowerShot related posts throughout December I’m sure.

cr

2000D Specs [CR1]

The camera we never get right
The following is a possible feature list of an upcoming 2000D.

Specs
15.1mp
ISO 100-6400
720p Video
2.5″ Articulating Screen
3fps in RAW

Thanks Jim

cr

Canon EVIL? [CR1]

EVIL (Electronic Viewfinder, Interchangeable Lens)
43rumors says they have it on good authority that Canon is about to release a Canonet GIII style digital camera with interchangeable lenses.

I haven’t heard even a peep from anyone in a long time about this type of camera.

Source: http://43rumors.com/ft3-canon-giii/

Thanks Are

cr

A Canon First? [CR1]

Too good to be true?
A cryptic message today said Canon is developing their first f/2 zoom. The broken english of the email said the lens would be a “short zoom range”. There was no focal length given.

cr

Magic Lantern on the 7D

From Hudson
Magic Lantern is coming to the Canon 7D — the dev team can produce valid, signed firmware images and run their own code on the camera. The first video shows a 7D booting into a test firmware that draws colors bars and writes the ROM image to the CF card for analysis.

Thanks for all your hard work Hudson, a lot of people appreciate it.

cr

1D Mark IV Arrival?

USA
We’re been told that a certain business was told by Canon to expect their order of 5 1D Mark IV bodies on December 15, 2009.

Canada
I’ve been told to expect the bodies to be available the first week of January in Ontario. That’s from 1 store, looking for confirmation from others.

EU
We should start seeing them appearing in various parts of Europe around the 15th of December.

Asia
I’ve received no information about the Asian market… as usual, they’ll probably get a few first.

Thanks Mark

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1D Mark IV in the Field.

From Jeff Ascough
Jeff had a chance to take the new 1D Mark IV on location to a wedding to test the lowlight AF and higher ISO quality. I can’t think of too many people more qualified to do so. He doesn’t use a flash 99% of the time when shooting a wedding.

Check his thoughts and samples: http://jeffascough.typepad.com/….

cr

Odds & Ends

Camera RAW 5.6 Beta vs Camera Raw 5.5
Photoframd has posted some comparison images of various RAW converters for the EOS 7D files.

http://blog.photoframd.com/….

“The First” Feature Length Film….

"Everyone's a critic!"

…. made using the 7D

http://www.theaspectratio.net/….

Disclaimer: I do not fact check “The first” claims.

Darwin Wigget’s 7D Review… the counterpoint
Pro Photo Home has posted a retort to the claims made by Darwin Wigget and his review of the 7D.

Pro Photo Home seems to be doing tests at f/5.6 & f/16. I think the issue with the 7D was in the f/8 to f/11 area. Most seem to be saying that diffraction sets in with larger apertures on the 7D compared to the XSi.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but check it out.

http://www.prophotohome.com/….

Old News, I forgot to post it
Here is Lee’s solution to filtering (some filters) ultra wide angle lenses.

http://www.ephotozine.com/….

The bad news? You still can’t use a polarizer. There is a company working on a solution so you can actually polarize these lenses as well.

thanks James

cr

Camera Raw 5.6 Hits

From Adobe
Newly supported camera models include:

* Canon EOS 7D
* Canon PowerShot G11
* Canon PowerShot S90
* Leaf Aptus II 5
* Mamiya DM22, DM28, DM33, DM56, M18, M22, M31
* Nikon D3s
* Olympus E-P2
* Pentax K-x
* Panasonic FZ38
* Sigma DP1s
* Sony A500
* Sony A550
* Sony A850

Camera Raw 5.6 also provides a a fix for an issue affecting PowerPC customers using the final Camera Raw 5.5 and DNG Converter 5.5 updates on the Mac. The issue, introduced in the demosaic change to address sensors with unequal green response, has the potential to create artifacts in highlight areas when processing raw files from Sony, Olympus, Panasonic and various medium format digital camera backs.

Download: http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Camera_Raw_5.6

Thanks Kevan

cr

EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro Discontinued?

I was hoping not
I received word from a few folks that the EF 100 f/2.8 Macro has been discontinued. The lens currently still appears in Canon Canada’s price lists as well as Canon USA’s. The manufacturing of the lens may have stopped.

I hope this lens isn’t gone, there’s a big difference between $650CAD and $1300CAD for a 100mm Macro. I own the aformentioned lens, and I have no plans to upgrade.

I’ll look for something definitive.

cr