Canon Rumors

Applications – One More Time

I’m going to try this again
I’m looking for 1 (fairly dedicated) or 2 folks to help out with posts on the site.

What I need:

1) Someone to post any relevant news about Canon products or photography products to the site.
2) I’d like a person that could post some stuff at least every other day.
3) When I’m in Europe for two months over the winter, someone to really pickup the slack.
4) You don’t need to be a great writer, I’m not. The ability to spell would be nice.
5) How to apply? mail me using the form on the right.
6) Compensation? The site doesn’t make a pile of money. You will get something, it’ll be based on revenue, posts and growth. It won’t buy you a house, but it could buy you a lens… well some lenses. Enjoy your new 18-55 IS!

I will be taking applications for 48 hours starting now and will have someone (or two) picked by Saturday.

cr

Canon Rumors Dot Com & More!

Holy new stuff!
I’ve expanded the site to add a few new features. They’re going to slowly roll out as we here get used to it.

1) FIRST AND FOREMOST… This is and always will be a site geared 100% to Canon photography. Do not think for a moment I’ll forget that.

2) Page 2’s purpose is to report the cool stuff going on in the photography business, as well as minor stuff with Canon. This idea is stolen from plenty of other sites

3) Video… gah? It’s true, apparently Canon is also market leader in the field of video and camcorders. They have everything for the consumer right up to the professional. I have someone on board eager to share his knowledge with you and build readership here.

With DSLR’s getting video, I think we’ll be seeing some overlapping technology.

4) Reviews! This is going to remain inactive for now. I have a new respect for camera reviewers, it takes a lot of work to do it right. I want to do it right… please be patient for us.

5) The new content may roll out slowly. I have to get some new sources of information and whatnot.

6) I hope you enjoy it, I think we will.

cr

Comment Moderation

Had to start =(
Sorry to some folks that have innocently been caught in comment moderation. There aren’t many, but a few of you have. I’ve started flagging certain things to stop a certain person from taking conversations to uncool places.

I will approve good comments as fast as possible. So far about 5% of comments have been triggered for moderation.

Thanks for your understanding.

cr

5D Mark II Price Increase in Canada?

From a reader

The reader was told there was a Canadian price increase coming on the
5D2.

This would mean all Canadian preorders would end up costing more.

I’ll try to find more info.

cr

Sent from my iPhone

Woops

Site Outage
It was my fault, I was cleaning the web server up and deleted the most important folder on it… i.e. this site. I then proceeded to go to bed.

Some days you shouldn’t touch a computer.

cr

Canon 1Di or something like it

I received another email that Canon does have something like the APS-C
22fps camera in development. However, it may not be a camera that ever
reaches market.

Sent from my iPhone

Canon Rumors an adult site?

Appears so
I’m getting reports by some folks that their companies are blocking this site because it’s a naughty site. It may have been the old flickr link with the “P” word in it.

I’m not sure if I can do anything about it, but I’ll see what’s up. The link is no longer on the site. There could be old posts with the word in it though. I will try to remove the word.

*UPDATE*
The word on the site has been removed. I guess you can tell your admins the site is clean.

cr

Site Changes

Getting ready for more stuff
I added a searchbox at the top right corner. It seems to search articles pretty well.

I moved the top ad banner down, I didn’t like the way it looked at the top and for other reasons. I hope you don’t find the smaller text ads annoying. I might tweak the colors a bit to make it less “BAM!”

There’s also space for a new text menu across the top that I will use for reviews and other things.

The logo is gone for a sec while I redesign a resize. I just thought the header before was taking up way too much screen space.

I made a post on the old Canon Rumors RSS feed about the feed address update, hopefully that helped a few of you. A complete oversight on my part.

Thanks for reading

cr

Taking applications again

We’ll try this again
I’m looking for someone to help with news posts here at CR. This is a volunteer position that I will make worth your while.

I want someone that can commit to contributing for at least 6 months. I’m pretty informal so it’s not a high pressure thing.

I took applications before, however a bunch of stuff happened out of my control and it got put to the backburner.

Contact me at buzz[at]canonrumors.com

cr

ISO 25,000,000 anyone? Black Silicon

Black Silicon
Any interesting new technology for low light applications.

“IT started with a Harvard physicist acting on a hunch. It ended up producing a new material, called black silicon, that could have a broad impact on technologies ranging from ultrasensitive sensors to photovoltaic cells.”

Read more at the NY Times

cr

Nikon Virtual Boy

What the?

From Gizmodo:

Is it April 1?

“A seriously odd announcement from camera maker Nikon, the Media Port UP300 and UP300x video headset approaches wearable PC territory. The device, which honestly looks like a pair of headphones with a small display tacked on, actually has a pretty impressive spec sheet: up to 8GB of flash memory for videos, audio and file storage, Wi-Fi connectivity, a full-featured internet browser and on the 300x model, even motion control. Browsing would have to be frustrating on a setup like this, but the Wi-Fi connection can also be used to download audio and video content directly to the device.”

cr

New Canon Rumors Dot Com

This is what I’m going with

I’ve been working pretty hard on getting a new site up and running. I had to switch to WordPress as I had outgrown my previous site.

The site isn’t 100% finished, there will be some tweaking to Adsense placement and other things. I will be adding a reviews section among other things.

I wanted the site to remain pretty minimal in design.

I will be doing minor stuff while the site is live to customize a bit more. Consider this a beta test.

Where are the comments?

Yeah, they’re gone. I gave up trying to import them. They weren’t part of an RSS feed. I will keep trying, but I’m not sure if it’s really needed. Is it?

Hiccups

There will be some, if you hate something on the site… let me know.

I’m becoming a bit of a collector

Camera's I'm Looking for
I'm becoming a bit of a collector of older Canon cameras. I'm not going to try to get every one, but there are a few I'd like to add. I just got a near mint black AE-1 (not program).

Cameras I would like as close to mint as possible:

F-1
Silver AE-1
Canonet G-III 17 (Black & Silver)
T70
T80
T90
PELLIX
50 f/0.95

If you have a camera not listed here, I'd like to hear about it too.

Can't always find what I'd like on ebay. If anyone has any they'd like to pass on to a good home, let me know.

I’m becoming a bit of a collector

Camera's I'm Looking for
I'm becoming a bit of a collector of older Canon cameras. I'm not going to try to get every one, but there are a few I'd like to add. I just got a near mint black AE-1 (not program).

Cameras I would like as close to mint as possible:

F-1
Silver AE-1
Canonet G-III 17 (Black & Silver)
T70
T80
T90
PELLIX
50 f/0.95

If you have a camera not listed here, I'd like to hear about it too.

Can't always find what I'd like on ebay. If anyone has any they'd like to pass on to a good home, let me know.