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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: Canon Announces the Canon EOS 6D DSLR

« on: September 20, 2012, 11:17:13 AM »

Well, two years later we're gonna have 6Dm2 with multi-cross focus points.

Am I not the only who would prefer a DSLR with e.g. 7 dual-cross type AF-points over one with 1 dual-cross and 42 or so f/5.6 lines?

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Lenses / Re: When are Canon going to revise the aged 20mm F2.8 ?

« on: August 27, 2012, 10:02:45 AM »

I'd be content with F2.8 as long as it was really good and sharp overall.

+1

Hopefully it would be cheaper than the Zeiss 21mm, but not too much worse (corner performance).

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EOS Bodies / Re: Canon EOS 3D X [CR1]

« on: August 21, 2012, 11:19:44 AM »

... but still many will because they shelled out $3500 to get the latest gimmick on the block

If that was their main motivation to buy a new camera then I'm not feeling with them.

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EOS Bodies / Re: More Big Megapixel Talk

« on: August 20, 2012, 03:31:02 AM »

Announcing the whole line mid-year for the following year would be so much better for the consumer...it works that way for the auto industry!

That sounds like an interesting comparison, we are so used to secrecy from companies like Canon or Apple, but on the other hand car makers don't seem to suffer it being known more than a year in advance when a replacement is due, and even other tech companies like Intel have reasonably well known road maps and schedules. So why?

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Lenses / Re: The one waiting the new version of 100-400 IS, investegation

« on: July 25, 2012, 10:54:46 AM »

I'm waiting most eagerly for one, together with a 135L it'll replace my 70-200 f/4 IS.

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EOS Bodies / Re: Canon EOS M Specs

« on: July 23, 2012, 04:45:16 AM »

Good point about the flash!

I think it's an interesting prospect for existing EOS users as a tiny second body that shoots good video.

The price is a bit high though, in particular the 200 for a mechanical adapter. With such a camera I would also like to get an FD adapter and go raiding local camera shops for cheap lenses ;-)

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: Canon EOS M System Announced

« on: July 23, 2012, 02:36:56 AM »

I would be interested in seeing side by side comparison shots to see what provides better quality.

Since they seem to use the same sensor I wouldn't expect any great differences...

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EOS Bodies / Re: Canon EOS M Specs

« on: July 23, 2012, 02:30:13 AM »

Anybody going to get one to try out?  It's fairly cheap, $799.

You forgot the $199 for the EF adapter that most people on this forum would probably want to include!

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EOS Bodies / Re: Canon EOS M Specs

« on: July 22, 2012, 10:04:33 AM »

If it's reasonably cheap I can see myself getting one with the 22mm and the EF-adapter to fill the gap between phone and DSLR. Otherwise I'll just get the 40mm for the DSLR ;-)

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EOS Bodies / Modular design

« on: July 22, 2012, 08:25:49 AM »

Computers have been pretty modular for a while, cars are becoming more modular over time, even houses etc...

Why is nobody coming forth with a more modular approach to DSLRs? It seems that Canikon etc. are all stuck in the 20th century regarding certain ideas:

- Make AA filter BTO (build to order) (only D800E does this)
- Make Bayer filter BTO (only Leica M9 does this)
- Make two or three APS-C and FF bodies with different builds, then offer two or three sensors for each.

Suppose Canon had an 18 and 28 MP FF sensor, I could choose a 5D3 with 18MP and 7fps or 28MP and 4fps or a 1DX with 18MP and 12fps or 28MP and 8fps, or something like that.

If they then stopped holding back on software-only features, intentionally crippled firmware and atrocious usability issues it would be really great!

So what I'm wondering, are there technical reasons against this, or is it just the capitalist reality biting us (i.e. we get the worst possible product instead of the best possible, where worst possible is defined as just good enough to make us want to upgrade, and just good enough to keep up with the competition, but no really innovative steps forward unless absolutely forced to by outside pressure).

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EOS Bodies / Re: Why is everyone calling the mk3 sensor the same as mk2?

« on: July 22, 2012, 08:18:04 AM »

Meh, is Mark III's sensor is anywhere near as good as D800's (DR, noise) I would have got one in a heart beat.

~At the same time someone is posting at Nikon Rumors..."Damn, if the D800 had the AF and high ISO or even was close to the 5D MKIII, I would have jumped at it."~

It's not really surprising; let's ignore the image quality for a moment. People buying the D700 over a 5D2 were those who wanted a more well-rounded product, those like me who chose a 5D2 were prepared to sacrifice AF and speed for IQ (or at least pixels...).

Suddenly the roles are reversed, the 5D3 is a very well balanced camera more fit to replace the D700, while the D800 is a more specialised one that I see more in line with the 5D2 (high IQ but slow, even though the AF is much better on the D800 than on the 5D2).

So while threads like these tend to be much longer than makes sense, I can fully understand a bit of confusion due to this role reversal (and then there's the "other" role reversal that some people like to tout, the one that Nikon generally has overtaken Canon in the sensor department; which adds even more confusion when every thread about one of these aspects is immediately hijacked into a big mush of all possible comparison points-of-view).

Phew.

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Site Information / Re: In Sympathy for CR Guy

« on: July 18, 2012, 01:49:27 PM »

Wish you all the strength and understanding to get through this, we're all with you!

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Lenses / Re: Which lenses to pick up next?

« on: July 05, 2012, 11:18:45 AM »

Longer focal lengths compress the image more and result in a blurrier background.  Like take a 70-200 and take a picture at 70mm and then take the same picture at 200mm with the same settings will result in a much blurrier background. 

Why do people always write that longer focal lengths compress the image, when they actually expand the background?

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EOS Bodies / Re: Why so many different camera bodies?

« on: June 29, 2012, 12:54:50 PM »

However, it's not so obvious to me why Canon needs such a wide range of camera bodies.

I really think the Canon DSLR body line-up is small and simple; have you ever looked at the list of notebooks that the likes of Asus or Acer offer at any given time? Now that's what I call overwhelming, not 10 cameras of which 5 are just previous models that are not discontinued yet.

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EOS Bodies / Re: Odds & Ends: 70D, 7D2, New Full Frame, D600 & Photoshop CS6

« on: June 20, 2012, 08:46:27 AM »

The 7D being a flagship?

Why spend so much time on sticking a label on these products?

The 7D is just what it is, with exactly the features that it has! Discussing the "flagship" or "pro" labels doesn't help anybody because it's completely irrelevant, it's not as if the camera changes because it gets assigned an arbitrary label.

Let's at least speculate about the constellation of the product line-up, or about specifications of non-existing cameras, anything is more interesting than these labels!

To go on a journey you have to have directions. Directions are useless unless you know where you are.

So whether the 7D is indeed a flagship product is important and it will detirmine the marketing direction of its replacement

You can observe that, following the 7D, the xxD line was devaluated slightly, but that with the 650D the trend was reversed by giving an xxxD some features from the xxD line, and can therefore speculate on whether the new 70D will reach high enough to also succeed the 7D, or whether it means that the 7D2 will reach even higher. Now tell me how putting the "flagship" label on the 7D, or not, helps; this is a sincere question, I just fail to see it.