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EOS Bodies / Re: A Big Megapixel Discussion

« on: June 12, 2013, 08:14:48 AM »

The elephant in the room is the read noise, not the pixel count.

Spot on. I'm sure Canon can make a high MP sensor, but will it come with a significant bump in DR? Will it be free from Canon's trademarked banding?

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Lenses / Re: Review - Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II

« on: June 12, 2013, 08:07:52 AM »

I've used both the 17-40 and 16-35, side by side with the Nikon 14-24 and to be honest, they both pale in comparison to the 14-24.

I'm using Samyang 14 and Zeiss 21 while waiting for Canon to produce a sharp UWA-zoom lens.

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EOS-M / Re: EF-M 11-22mm f/4-5.6 IS STM Announcement Soon? [CR2]

« on: June 03, 2013, 02:14:49 PM »

The system is lacking a true wide angle lens, along with many other things.

The main thing that is lacking is a true will to make a serious mirrorless camera, in order to compete with Fuji and Sony.

Even as a some pros are switching to m4/3 and DX mirrorless Canon still sees mirrorless as a Hello Kitty market.

Dear Canon, just give us a full frame body and consider the competition smashed.

The only Full Frame Mirrorless that makes any sense is the Sony a99. It uses ALL their a-mount lenses. Do you want a mirrorless Canon DSLR with an EVF that uses EF lenses

I just want the smallest and lightest full frame camera, in other words mirrorless.

And besides, in a mirrorless camera there is no mirror slap, causing vibration. This has a number of advantages as the photographic workflow will be a lot more seamless/uniform, as one doesn't have to place the camera in a 'mirror lockup' mode in certain shooting scenarios to eliminate the mirror slap.

And about the EVF, I don't really care how bad it is. I'll be shooting with live view anyway.

I dont care about AF speed or FPS either. Don't need that for my kind of work.

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EOS-M / Re: EF-M 11-22mm f/4-5.6 IS STM Announcement Soon? [CR2]

« on: June 03, 2013, 10:16:42 AM »

The system is lacking a true wide angle lens, along with many other things.

The main thing that is lacking is a true will to make a serious mirrorless camera, in order to compete with Fuji and Sony.

Dear Canon, just give us a full frame body and consider the competition smashed.

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EOS Bodies / Re: Canon EOS 70D Coming in July? [CR2]

« on: May 21, 2013, 04:08:20 PM »

Bleh. I'm sure the 70D will be a cool camera for the advanced soccer moms, but how about releasing some stuff that people are actually waiting for?

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Third Party Manufacturers / Re: 135mm f/1.8 DG OS ART Next from Sigma? [CR1]

« on: April 21, 2013, 08:07:10 PM »

Sigma is pumping out awesome lenses lately.

What is Canon doing? I mean except the cinematic crap?

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Third Party Manufacturers / Re: Sigma Announces 18-35 f/1.8 DC HSM Art for APS-C

« on: April 18, 2013, 10:47:41 AM »

Shut up and don't take my money.

Take my money when there's an equivalent for FF.

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Software & Accessories / Re: Adobe Lightroom 5 Public Beta Available

« on: April 16, 2013, 04:31:05 PM »

Looks interesting. Though there are MANY people just catxhing up on LR4....

SLOW people. 

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: EOS 5D Mark III, EOS-1D X, EOS-1D C Firmware Info [CR1]

« on: April 11, 2013, 10:36:12 PM »

The new 5D3 firmware doesn't interest me at all.

But if it would enable us to link spot metering to selected AF point, I'd be all over it.

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EOS Bodies / Re: Canon Announcements on April 23, 2013? [CR2]

« on: April 07, 2013, 10:16:55 AM »

BOOOORING ... don't care at all for a 70D. Would be much more interested in a hi-end Canon mirrorless .. EOS-M "done right" ... :-)

I have to agree with this. A 70D is just another cropster.

I hope the announcement is about the long awaited high MP / high DR body, or a bunch of new lenses. Like the 35L II, 50L II, 50 1.4 II, 135L II, 14-24L, e.t.c.

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EOS Bodies / Re: Big Megapixel Development Announcement in the Fall? [CR2]

« on: March 24, 2013, 08:08:15 PM »

The big question is what body will this be in.

I'm sporting the 1D-X and the 5D3 was tempting (but some features only a little better and negatives were big for me) but I prefer the series 1 bodies and features. However, I would have loved a big step up in megapixels in my 1D-X.

I'd prefer rebel size. Yes, seriously.

There is no need to feel like a overpacked mountain donkey while hiking / traveling for landscapes. My shoulders says no! .. After all, a high MP body will surely be aimed at landscapers and travelers.

But yeah, it will probably be a 1D-type body, just so that Canon can charge extra for the "pro size".

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EOS Bodies / Re: Congratulations Canon to another great Camera release!!

« on: March 21, 2013, 10:00:04 AM »

Still no AFMA...something that doesn't cost them a dime at this point. In fact it probably costs them extra to disable it from the common firmware code base.

I can't understand why they still won't allow AFMA in rebels, especially since 99% of all wide aperture lenses needs to be adjusted.

Its just stupid.

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Lenses / Re: 35L or 50L?

« on: March 20, 2013, 07:27:34 AM »

Sigma 35mm...  I hope they can also produce a 21mm or 20mm that's as good and as cheap.

+1

And I hope they can produce a wide angle zoom that is sharp across the frame, so that we don't have to wait for Canon to do it. 

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EOS Bodies / Re: Canon EOS-b Images Leak & a New Kit Lens

« on: March 19, 2013, 10:03:01 AM »

And the resulting wonderment of Canon executives as to why the EOS M hasn't been at least a good seller.

http://www.canonrumors.com/forum/index.php?topic=10654.0

you have other infos?

The EOS M is indeed a failure, both technically and in sales. The latter has even been confirmed by Masaya Maeda - managing director at Canon.

Japan is the only country where the EOS M is selling "well".

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EOS Bodies / Re: Canon EOS-b Images Leak & a New Kit Lens

« on: March 19, 2013, 09:15:44 AM »

By the way the fact that this camera (that none is expecting and none asked for) is coming out before both 70D and 7DII is a clear sign of how unimportant for Canon is the entire Gearhead/Pro-amateur/Semipro/Pro market.. T_T

+1

And don't forget how they "stunned" us all with the EOS M, instead of giving us something to compete with Fuji's and Olympus's mirrorless systems.