New Transmitters from Canon and Delkin 420x CF Cards
Canon launches new Wireless transmitters for 1D Mark IV, 5D Mark II and the 7D
LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., January 7, 2009 – Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging, is announcing a step forward in the digital integration of professional photography workflows with the introduction of three new Wireless File Transmitter units to accompany each of the Company’s three professional Digital SLR Camera models. The new WFT-E2 II A Wireless File Transmitter, WFT-E4 II A Wireless File Transmitter and WFT-E5A Wireless File Transmitter for the EOS-1D Mark IV, EOS 5D Mark II and EOS 7D, respectively, provide professional photographers with a range of innovative wireless connectivity options for all photographic disciplines.
Full Press Release: http://www.usa.canon.com/……
Delkin Delivers Genuine Human Contact with New 420X CompactFlash Line
Poway, CA. January 7th, 2010 – Delkin Devices, Inc. today expanded their lineup of CompactFlash card storage by announcing four new blazing fast 420X PRO cards capable of transfer speeds up to 63MB/s. The new UDMA enabled flash memory comes with a remarkable San Diego based customer service team as well as a lifetime warranty, and is available in capacities of 8GB, 16GB, 32GB and 64GB. For a working photographer, the reliability and service support behind a memory card can be just as crucial, if not more so, than the camera itself.
“Unless they have blown it up, dissected it, or their dog has chewed on it, we’ll take it back,” said Eric Findley, Delkin’s Customer Service Supervisor. “Since we’re based out of Southern California it’s easy to call us up and talk to a knowledgeable person within
minutes. We stand by our hassle free exchange policy; in addition to the lifetime warranty on flash memory, we have industry leading product support policies on our batteries, readers, adapters, and most all of our digital camera accessories. We build superb products and we want photographers to know they can count on us to support them.”
Delkin’s PRO memory card line combines blazing fast speeds and increased capacity with unmatched reliability. Every card is manufactured with high grade NAND flash, advanced controller design, and quality control guidelines based on ISO:9001 standards. Additionally, built-in ECC (Error Correction Code) automatically detects and corrects any errors that might occur during data transfer. Delkin’s 420X CF cards are fully compliant with current CompactFlash specifications with support for Ultra DMA (UDMA) mode 6. These high-speed cards are able to instantaneously store high-resolution images and HD video, making recording faster and easier than ever.
Delkin has supported Lifetime warranties on its memory products for over 20 years and maintains a U.S. based support center where genuine human assistance is consistently available Monday through Friday between 8am and 5pm PST. Delkin’s 420X PRO line of CompactFlash memory cards and other innovative digital camera accessories may be found in camera stores and distributors worldwide, as well as the company’s website at www.delkin.com.
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January 7th, 2010 at 1:13 pm
Weren’t these wireless transmitters already released 3 months ago with the 1Dm4?
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DeeWee Reply:
January 7th, 2010 at 2:30 pm
Yes, they were. These are the ‘A’ versions with less WiFi channels to be conformant with the US RF regulations.
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January 7th, 2010 at 2:16 pm
Probably £10,000 a shot…..
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January 7th, 2010 at 2:35 pm
What is the issue with Wireless N, why it is not N? For shooting RAW it doesn’t seem to be useful (slow, less range).
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ossme Reply:
January 8th, 2010 at 1:58 am
wireless N is crap and buggy in my opinion. it drives the nuts out of me at work. I always fight with the IT staff because my macbook pro keeps disconnecting when I’m using it. Ofcourse it loves to do that when I start loading files into the server.
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Ivar Reply:
January 8th, 2010 at 9:41 am
I think some implementations are crappy and buggy. I have had quite a trouble with some b/g networks too apart from seeing trouble free n-networks.
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January 7th, 2010 at 2:43 pm
No 802.11n? Innovation fail.
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Anthony Reply:
January 7th, 2010 at 3:15 pm
Mis-using “fail” as a noun? Maturity fail.
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Michal Reply:
January 7th, 2010 at 3:34 pm
Not knowing a popular internet meme? Fail.
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Anthony Reply:
January 7th, 2010 at 4:39 pm
Knowing != abhorance.
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Michal Reply:
January 7th, 2010 at 5:14 pm
Writting!=spelling too?
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Justin Reply:
January 7th, 2010 at 5:53 pm
Epic failz
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Jeff Reply:
January 7th, 2010 at 6:06 pm
Nerd fight=lulz!
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. Reply:
January 7th, 2010 at 8:27 pm
Writing “mis-using”? Hyphenation fail. Grammar nazi win.
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January 7th, 2010 at 2:52 pm
they anounce things mid week so saturday might get 1 more anouncement.
BTW getting my 1d4 today.
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January 7th, 2010 at 3:05 pm
What’s worse is, for those of us who have invested in N hardware and networks to increase speed and productivity in or our home and business network, having to dumb down the network to allow compatibilty with the network actually decreases network speed as a whole. So to allow this one device to work, we lose some of the benefits we invested in to get max speed and performance. It’s funny because Apple’s iPhone 3Gs also lacks N, so I don’t use it’s wireless capabilties at home and instead use the 3G or Edge networks for data. DUMB!!!
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svennebanan Reply:
January 7th, 2010 at 3:45 pm
Unlike most other wireless base stations, Apple Airport Extreme has dual wireless interfaces, so connecting an 802.11g device does not affect the speed of those N capable devices.
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January 7th, 2010 at 3:17 pm
Only $700, eh? Absurd.
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Chuck Reply:
January 7th, 2010 at 4:25 pm
Agreed. It really is absurd. How many of these Calvin Klein transmitters do they expect to sell?
An Eye-Fi memory card has similar capabilities for $50. Too bad it’s not available in CF format.
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Lawliet Reply:
January 8th, 2010 at 2:34 am
You could use an SD/CF-adapter. As a whole it still costs only about 10% of the Canon transmitter.
If only one wouldn’t miss raw transfer and remote control. :/ Where is my USB-cable? That works for all the bodies…
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Chuck Reply:
January 8th, 2010 at 8:35 am
Adapter doesn’t work per the website of the Eye-Fi developer. still worth a try to fool with it.
USB cable? The operative term here is “wireless” !
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jesse andrews Reply:
January 8th, 2010 at 3:06 pm
I had it working perfectly with:
1Ds
1DII
1DIII
1DIV
50D
40D
7D
T1i
XSi
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Chuck Reply:
January 8th, 2010 at 3:15 pm
Wow. You have lots of cameras!
Anyway, I will check again. I saw this on the Eye-Fi website that says no but perhaps someone found a soluton.
http://support.eye.fi/product-info/camera-compatability/compatibility/known-issues-with-compact-flash-card-adapters/
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Scalesusa Reply:
January 7th, 2010 at 6:40 pm
Thats for the old one. The new one will be more expensive.
Of course, if you have a $5,000 camera that you will keep for a few years, it might be OK. If you are a PJ and have assistants who are downloading images, doing a quick edit, and publising to a news site, then the speed is well worth it.
I got a kick out of the ability to release up to 11 cameras at once. Buy 11 1D MK IV’s and 11 Wireless units?
Now were talking $$$. Of course, with 5D MK II’s the price is less.
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January 7th, 2010 at 3:36 pm
I’m not a target market so do much care but well done all of you outstanding CR sources – so many great rumours pointing to this release. You are all so well-informed and reliable, you outstanding spies!
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January 7th, 2010 at 3:37 pm
Canon Is Playing whit Us
The implementation of
wireless ( like your printer )
Wi – Fi ( like your ipod touch )
BlueTooth ( like your phone )
Radio transmiter ( digital like cars alarms or remote controls like your tv or home phones )
short or long range is so small and very unexpensive
the implementation and the real life use is very very easy
you can buy for $19.95 a bluetooth mini transmiter
plug in your mini camera usb port
sincronise whit your bluethoot PC and walaaa
every shot transmited to the pc( you need to do more for work )
all the remote are very very very inexpensive and very very small can fit in any internal spase in side the camera
and the boost is from 1′ to 200 yards ‘and very little power usage
Comon Canon Give the Photographers The first To have this dont wait for Nikon or sony to doit and then you follow the lider
The Implementation is very inexpensive and easy to do fast and private ( like car alarms )
Canon Listen to me
Nikon Is working and implement and testing right now
Sony implemented in the new power shot, (and is work good is standart for all )
Sansung implemented wifi and bluethoot in compact point and shoot
Kodak the new point and shoot have bluethoot
Canon wake up dont listen to your internals
please listen to outsiders like photographers
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Scalesusa Reply:
January 7th, 2010 at 6:46 pm
You forgot to add one thing. I’ve tried the cheap junk Chinese transmitters like you mention, and they either don’t work, or they are susceptable to RF interference, and when they do work, their range is pathetic.
Pay $5,000 for a camera and rely on a transmitter with a 6 ft range, if and when its working does not sound really very smart. If you can justify a good camera, get a transmitter that works all the time and has a long range.
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theskunk Reply:
January 8th, 2010 at 3:16 am
Yeah, well I have a $39.95 transmitter here that has never failed once sending over a 25′ distance….
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Scott Reply:
January 8th, 2010 at 11:25 pm
And which transmitter is that?, Please give a product name and model number, etc.
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January 7th, 2010 at 4:14 pm
I have an airport extreme and the multicast top speed available is cut I’m half with b/g mode Fromm 22 to 11 max. Regardless I notice a big drop in network speeds when on b/g mode.
In any case, with the size of the files these cameras produces and the fact that most people would want a wireless way to “tether” to their pc or mac for previewing on the fly, n would have brouht the images up on the screen much faster. If they assume that it will be used primarily for geotagging and storage transfer and backup, then I guess speed is less relevant. If they were worried compatibility with older networks, they could have offered a backward compatible interface or simply set it to g by default and allowed users to turn N on as desired (like the first intel Macs). Let’s face it. Most photographers who would benefit from this and have the latest cameras these target, also have kept their post processing environments up to date as well, and further, most people considering *this* particular piece of equipment are even more likey to be anal about productivity and to be the early adopters willing to spend money on kit like this.
This is not just short sighted. It’s DUMB!
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January 7th, 2010 at 5:23 pm
I live in San Diego and recently had to buy a Delkin brand CF card because there were no Sandisk with the specs I wanted locally (32GB UDMA). At first I was cautious as it was a brand I had never used, but it’s been a great CF card and I love it. I’ve used it to shoot video and JPG+Raw.
Reading the article about this company makes me proud that they’re from San Diego. All the camera shops around town only carry Delkin brand.
A guy at one of the camera shops helped rest my fears by telling me that regardless if it’s Sandisk, Lexar or Delkin, the UDMA technology they buy comes from Samsung and is rebadged. Fully accurate or not, I don’t know, I haven’t looked into it. But that’s what got me to buy the card and I had a shoot that day so no choice haha.
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January 7th, 2010 at 5:26 pm
One more thing. Before my new Delkin Card I was using a Sandisk Ext. III and the video seems too run better/look better since I shoot with the Delkin Card now.
The ExtIII is 30mb/sec and the new Delkin i have is 63MB/sec. And we know the Canon DSLR HD video runs between 40MB and 45MB/Sec.
Maybe I’m just seeing things but the new card seems much better for the videos I shoot.
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DSLRvideo Reply:
January 10th, 2010 at 6:07 pm
HD video runs at 4.8 MB/s (38 Mbit/s). Even slowest 133x cards are overpowered.
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January 7th, 2010 at 5:33 pm
Curious on how this transmitter will affect the 5d mark II. Reading posts it seems the mark II works just fine in all kinds of weather, but as soon as you attach a grip to it, moisture seems to get trapped between the body and grip and it shuts down.
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Scalesusa Reply:
January 7th, 2010 at 6:51 pm
And you’ve tried this? Or did you read a post from someone who read this on a post from someone who read this on a post, from someone post from someone who doesn’t own one …
This type of post is often referred to by dozens of others who don’t own one either. Its best to only post your own experience rather than spread rumors of unknown accuracy.
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Claudius Reply:
January 7th, 2010 at 7:01 pm
Ok i’ll give you this excerpt from here. Start reading after the second picture on the page. There’s more like this.
http://canonfieldreviews.com/7d-1-weather-sealing/comment-page-2/
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Claudius Reply:
January 7th, 2010 at 7:15 pm
Here’s one more in case your still not satisfied. Under failures, read the paragraph.
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/essays/antarctica-2009-worked.shtml
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Lawliet Reply:
January 8th, 2010 at 2:42 am
Wasn’t that with the battery grip? Breaking the sealing of the battery compartment with that battery dummy thing? The wireless transmitter should be less susceptible.
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January 7th, 2010 at 8:02 pm
You need 1 of This
http://www.amazon.com/IOGear-Bluetooth-Micro-Adapter-GBU421/dp/B0018O9JIG/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1262911998&sr=8-8
You Need 1 of This
http://www.amazon.com/Female-Mini-Male-Adapter-Shipping/dp/B000Y6UL5E/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1262912317&sr=1-10
and a short Cable to put both and hang on the camara
and a computer whit Bluethooth
10 feets max
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January 7th, 2010 at 8:35 pm
BS. Do you smoke crack? The things wrong with this idea are too many to list. First, how about drivers – will God mircle it to work?
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Davero PR Reply:
January 7th, 2010 at 11:31 pm
Are you Read This (((**transmited to the pc you need to do more for work *** ))))
any Way Buy a cable very long
I found My Pipe Now im good
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January 7th, 2010 at 9:49 pm
Wow, that’s expensive. I’ll stick with my good old fashioned hardwire.
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January 7th, 2010 at 11:25 pm
Upsss i lost my Pipe
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January 8th, 2010 at 1:07 am
I wonder if this can Genlock two cameras together?
I’m assuming it can’t.
But this would be very cool for shooting 3-D if it could.
I’d love to try one of these things, having wireless Live View and camera control would be sweet for rig shots and the like.
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January 8th, 2010 at 2:00 am
Great! I will be graping one for my 5d mark II. it will be a great help in the studio assignments. Unless ofcourse, canon desided to price almost the same price as a Camera body. which they have the habbit of doing with wireless grips.
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January 8th, 2010 at 4:43 am
700 bucks – this sounds totally crazy. More than 50% of the price I pay for the 7D itself. I assume that in case there is a market for this – quickly a “similar” product will be available from 3rd party for much less. 700$ – still digesting …
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January 10th, 2010 at 3:30 pm
Canon EOS 7D Mark II
» 21.1 megapixel CMOS (22.3x14.9)
» ISO 100-6400 native; 50-25,600 expanded
» M-RAW: 10.1 megapixels; S-RAW: 5.1 megapixels
» Wireless flash controller
» 19 cross-type AF + 26 AF Assist (like EOS-1D Mark III)
» 63-zone iFCL metering
» 1080p: 30p/25p, 24p; 720p/SD: 60p/50p
» WFT E5 II/II A
» BG-E7 II battery grip, with LP-E4 battery
» Weather sealing in between EOS-1N and EOS-1V
» New 480EX III speedlite, EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L II IS USM
» Shutter speed 30 secons – 1/8000; x-sync 1/450 with 480EX III (1/300 with others)
» 9fps (11fps with BG-E7 II) for unlimited JPEG, 45 RAW, or 30 RAW+JPEG
» 100%/1x magnification viewfinder with transmissive LCD
» Dual card slots (CF & SDXC)
» RAW+JPEG button and Live View/Movie Mode Dial
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