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EOS Bodies / Re: Announcements Before Photokina

« on: September 14, 2012, 11:11:58 AM »

Seems like there's a party and everyone else has brought a keg and Canon has RSVPd to bring some wine coolers.  We'll see what happens at the show.

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EOS Bodies / Re: The Mirrorless Future

« on: September 11, 2012, 03:37:22 PM »

EVFs just don't cut it.  The only way they can is if it has the 'time machine' feature of some of Fuji's where the camera is always 'taking' pictures and can 'backdate' the camera click to get a picture of what you really wanted.  The EVF lag is just physics, no way around it.

Viewfinders are lacking information and exact framing and really aren't a solution beyond 100mm focal length or for very wide shots.

Mirrorless is the crutch we are using right not, but I see REVENGE OF THE MIRRORS!!!

Not exactly dSLRs, but with fixed semi-reflecting mirrors like the pellicle mirrors of old in the Canon cameras.

The MP race is over.  Do we really need 24+MP cameras? We're talking 20x30 prints easily.  Take the megapixels back to around 12 and increase sensativity and dynamic range and use that to allow the use of pellicle mirrors.

You get real thru the lens framing, with no screen black-out.  Light always available to the sensor.  At 12MP and no mirror slap, you should be able to get to 16fps.

Long live the mirror.

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EOS Bodies / Re: Canon EOS 7D Mark II Specs? [CR1]

« on: August 21, 2012, 01:35:25 AM »

A 7D successor is coming. I am convinced. Especially after seeing that Camerashops are offering the current 7D with a present (like a Wacom tablet) I do believe they do that to get rid of their stock samples.

I hope the 7D MKII will inherit the 61-AF
- 61-point AF with up to 41 cross-type AF points
- ISO up to 25600 and Less high ISO noise at 6400 (would be great if that would be even 12800)
- dual slots

I don't mind keeping 18 megapixels and same framerate as now.

I think that at the end , the 7D MKII willl be positioned where the 1D MKIV is now and replace this camera. So no more x1.3 but only x1.0 and x1.6 (as where the 7D MKII is the top of the APS-C line)

I can't make any sense of this whatsoever.

Neither can I, so help me here....

I think what you are saying is that just as people compare rough feature sets of the 7D and the MKIII, the 7DII will have a feature set that is close to the MkIV.  Those two camera sets also seem to have similar price points to the comparable cameras.  $1500 for the 7D and MKIII and the IV seems to be moving towards the probably intro price of a 7DII.

Forgive me if I have mistranslated, the I see the concept of a symmetry in Canon's movements, so I might not be correct.

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EOS Bodies / Re: Canon EOS 7D Mark II Specs? [CR1]

« on: August 20, 2012, 12:05:57 AM »

So it would have a higher res than the 1Dx and just 2fps less?  That is the part I don't get.  I think the 7D is due for replacement, and these maybe the specs, but if they are, I don't see it getting here till mid next year.  1DX supply is tight still, eh?

With sensors getting cleaner and cleaner and video becoming more important as a feature, I don't know why Canon hasn't brought back the pellicle mirrors- they even had one in EOS cameras before.  Run a modern H sensor with a pellicle.  Get your 10FPs easy, video thru the viewfinder.  If I were Canon the 1DX would have had a pellicle mirror and 15 fps to augement a 30+MP camera.

But on this topic, if a 7D is about like a 1D mkIII I don't think it is much of a stretch that the 7Dmk II would be like a 1D MKIV.  Considering that used MKIIIs are about the price of a new 7D and MkIVs are about $3000-$3500k, that would indicate to me that the 7DMkII ( which would be about $2500?) is a bit off in the future.  Not that Canon uses that as a measure or metric, just that it seems like these things equilibrate in the market.  As more people dump MKIVs for 1DXs and the price drops a bit, the 7DMKII will appear.  Call is 'Spooky action at a distance".

I would expect that we get some kind of signalling at photokina.

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Pricewatch Deals / Re: Canon EOS 7D Body Package Deal from B&H $1349

« on: August 11, 2012, 03:08:00 AM »

Any chance of this coming back?  The deal on refirb units is OK, but this deal is only about $100 more (including the value of the add on) than that refurb.  Wasn't in the market for a 7D then, but I've handled one now and it is what I'm looking for.

Any resurrection of this deal or some kind of Canon break in the next few months?

THX