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EOS Bodies / Re: A Big Megapixel Discussion

« on: Today at 12:01:30 PM »

The banding noise issues are the result of high frequency components, particularly when they are off-die. Sony Exmors design was implemented in the way it was implemented to achieve more than just high dynamic range at low ISO. Fundamentally, Exmor's Column-Parallel ADC is designed to support high speed digital readout. Certainly, increasing frame rate from 4fps to 10fps will increase noise contribution a little (that's the consequence of high frequency logic), but Exmor has such a low read noise level that you could effectively double it, and still have one of the cleanest readouts in the world.

It is not improbable that we could see high res, high readout rate sensors at 8-10fps within the next couple of generations of DSLR sensors. I don't suspect it will happen by next year, but I do expect it to happen.

Hopefully it happens with a 5DIV (frequently shooting a 5DIII) or 5DV. Wrong camp, I know, but I guess new tech will be applied in other bodies too. As I am all for highest possible ISOs...

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: Is there a better time to buy a 5D mkIII?

« on: Today at 09:24:44 AM »

Yes there is, a matter of fact... about 2-3 months BEFORE canon releases the 5d mark 4, you should see a big sell off.. THAT is the better time 

+1 Bought it last August, brick and mortar store, 3.5k, no regrets

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EOS Bodies / Re: Is This the EOS 3D?

« on: June 18, 2013, 10:14:38 AM »

Nice fake.

Well, according to your signature you could tell us a bit more 

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EOS Bodies / Re: Is This the EOS 3D?

« on: June 18, 2013, 08:13:12 AM »

Maybe it is a plain "summer duck" as linguistically german-based and swiss folk like me would call it  So, I am looking forward to whatever may come.

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EOS Bodies / Re: Is This the EOS 3D?

« on: June 17, 2013, 05:08:49 PM »

If it is a 2D/3D which is hard to discern due to the visible info on the strap is it at least a non 1D line body. But they'd better give it a three, price tag will still be high this way. 5Diii 3,5k so if this one is a "3", they might ask at least 4.5 k USD for it.  Anyone correct me please. This way they can hardly beat the D800. At this price they would be fine to present new sensor tech as well... my two cents

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EOS Bodies / Re: A Big Megapixel Discussion

« on: June 14, 2013, 02:30:31 AM »

And someone was speculating about 102k native ISO. Would be great! Waiting for that. Maybe in about 6 years from now via the 5DV? 102 k like my 25k on the 5D3...wow.  

That was me; high ISO was why I bought the 5D3 (the 1DX was out of scope both due to money and physical size), and I really look forward to the next improvement in the ISO department.  Rather like the jump from pushed Tri-X at 1600 to 2475 Recording Film pushed to 6400 and IR film with a filtered flash; there is no going back.

Having always been an 'available light' photographer, complete with the limitations that implied in the past, I am loving the stuff I get from the 5D3.  But of course I want 'more', and I know it's coming.

After all, that's how these suppliers of photographic crack stay in business.

+1. I am all for high ISOs. Used to push Tri-X film to 1600 as well back in the day. Same reasons for purchasing a 5D3 as yours led me to go for it. Maybe you've seen this posted before. Here's my late cat at 51k:


Shooting my Cat at ISO 51k by Peter Hauri, on Flickr

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EOS Bodies / Re: A Big Megapixel Discussion

« on: June 13, 2013, 11:55:36 AM »

I'm satisfied with 22mp. Large enough to print big, Small enough to save some space.

Same here. In fact, I shoot my 5D3 in 10mp RAW mode most of the time. I only ramp up to 22mp when the client demands it, I need to print big or I intend to do substantial cropping.

If the pixel count of the 5D4 is significantly higher than the 5D3's, I'll look forward to snapping up a second 5D3 at a discount.

Same here, Jon. I shoot mine at 10MP as well. Whatever the MP count may be. I always will do so most of the time, maybe with the next 5D S RAW will give you 10 MP ;-)

And someone was speculating about 102k native ISO. Would be great! Waiting for that. Maybe in about 6 years from now via the 5DV? 102 k like my 25k on the 5D3...wow.  

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Third Party Manufacturers / Re: New Camera Sensor Eliminates Need for Flash

« on: June 02, 2013, 03:59:53 PM »

It's a pleasant inevitability that sensor design and innovation continues at such a cracking pace. Care to remember the gritty sensor on your original Canon 1D?

Lighting will always be important to quality photography to create shape, texture, mood and balance against available light. It's not that long ago that we thought 800 iso was fast, and how incredibly useful it was. Just a few years later we can shoot at 3200 & 6400 with impunity, and 12,800 at a pinch.

These speed gains now have less to do with being able to get an image in lower and lower light, but having the ability to stop action in environments where it previously the stuff of science fiction. Will 51,200 or 102,400 iso soon be the new 800? You'd better believe it.

-PW

I hope to see that within my life time. Turning 50 next year. Maybe not the new ISO 800. But an ISO 51.200 on my current 5DIII with the IQ of my ISO 3200 in RAW would be intresting. If there is something in photography I really strive for, then it ultra low light photography. 10-12 years down the road from here, where will we be at sensorwise?

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

« on: May 22, 2013, 07:59:09 AM »

The rumor didn't say the same sensor, just Olog-hai there preemptively complaining.

well we are not all braindead fantasy freaks who believe in miracles... gaffer gamgee.

my last 5 predictions were dead on.. i would be glad to be wrong this time... but i doubt it.

the first APS-C camera from canon to have a new sensor design will be the 7D MK2.

That could come in handy as a probable 2014 release. New sensor design then would be the base for upcoming body upgrades like the 5DIII which could be replaced by 2015 and at least 1D type body maybe the following year.

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EOS Bodies / Re: EOS 70D & EOS 7D Mark II

« on: May 20, 2013, 07:43:50 AM »

Well, the surprise might be, that the price tag is even higher than ever before ... my two cents 

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Site Information / Re: Membership Approval Now Required

« on: May 11, 2013, 02:55:44 AM »

I think it is a right step forward. My nickname here is pedro. It refers to my affinity for latin america. And it is also linked to me as an enthusiast photo amateur. Once you want me to change it into "Peter Hauri Enthusiast Photo Amateur", just mail me  Oh, as long as I keep my posting credits, though...

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: 6D + Samyang 24 Visits Badlands Milky Way Extreme ISOs

« on: May 08, 2013, 02:34:56 PM »

This is great stuff! My 5D3 is fantastic as well. I even dare to use it for ISO 102.400 stuff ;-)

So, if the 6D is slightly better at some ISOs, what will the next 5D/6D be sometime down the road with 0.18 nm sensor tech or less and Digic VIII if not VIII and hopefully no higher MP count than now?

I dare to guess, that my decent ISO 12.8k on the 5D3 might be the new ISO 51k by then. That's two stops, and a lot of wishful thinking, but who knows...! 

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EOS Bodies / Re: No 7D Mark II in 2013? [CR2]

« on: May 08, 2013, 02:09:10 PM »

Well, 0.18 nm or less from a sensor tech POV and the now rumored Digic VI would make a good pair in 2014. Sounds promising to everything FF as well...

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EOS Bodies / Re: No 7D Mark II in 2013? [CR2]

« on: May 06, 2013, 11:28:46 AM »

Somewhere in my mind I have the feeling Canon might not be doing the 0.18 micron process at all, but instead going directly to the next one (0.12, 0.09 or 0.065 maybe?), and that is why they have such problems in getting it to roll.

It makes sense doing something like that when you have your own factories and do not want to upgrade them too often. Going to 0.18, just to do it all over again in 2 years? I don't think so. But, leapfrogging the competition and take them by surprise, and in the same time prolonging the active time of the process platform? Yes, I think I'll vote for that.

Even better. Oh, what will a 5D4 be like...na forget it. The 5D3 is still way too much camera for me  But as I my current FF lens line up contains about all the ones I will ever need for my type of photography it is quite attractive to save up for whatever may be up next in the 5D series. I will not early adopt it next time, cause the 5D3 is really amazing. But if let's say, ISO 3200 really turn out to be the new ISO 400 in a crop cam like the 7DII, then I do not dare to imagine what the new ISO 51200 will look like on the next 5D...can you? 

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EOS Bodies / Re: No 7D Mark II in 2013? [CR2]

« on: May 06, 2013, 11:21:35 AM »

oh that will make some people unhappy.....

but maybe all this points to a 180µm process in 2014...
the big MP camera and the 7D MK2 both with a new sensor design made with a new manufacturing process.

prototypes could be out... but for mass manufacturing canon needs to build new factorys or update existing ones. and that takes some time.

The same source does say “several lenses will be coming in 2013″.

well can he be a bit more vague?
what lenses?

+1, same guess when I read it. So there is real joy in the waiting. Wonder what else will come out by 2015 and further down the road.