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EOS Bodies / Re: The Next 5D on February 27/28, 2012 [CR3]

« on: February 22, 2012, 09:05:19 PM »

Quote from: fotoray on February 22, 2012, 04:02:01 PM

"I find the CF+SD card choice a bit odd. IMO, 2 CF slots makes more sense for camera in 5D family. It makes even more sense to include the new XQD card format - which has size similar to SD, but thickness of CF. This would be paving the way to use the latest card technology. "

This "paving the way" Point is VERY interesting. I'm coming to this from a video point of view and the getting of the info on to the card is the bottleneck. The XQD is fast. Hummmm

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EOS Bodies / Re: The Next 5D on February 27/28, 2012 [CR3]

« on: February 22, 2012, 08:20:04 PM »

"Oh I hate that crap. I really wanted 2 x CF. I just don't see the point of using 2 formats. I can understand it for peeps upgrading from a cam who have already SD's. Guess I'm turning back to the 1D X...
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+1 What are they thinking? Two different types of media? Madness!
I'm still going to get one

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EOS Bodies / Re: From NL: NDAs expiring on the 2nd of March

« on: February 21, 2012, 10:31:13 PM »

Um, what is a NDA?

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EOS Bodies / Re: Announcement Soon [CR3]

« on: February 17, 2012, 07:36:47 PM »

My credit cards are burnin'.
I'll be getting one but does any body know any more about the video, still h.264? Or a version of H.264 with different compression?

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: Camera? Card? Solar Flare?

« on: February 11, 2012, 03:46:31 PM »

My 7D did something somewhat similar... But it looked more like some one sprinkled rock salt on the pict, big and specific noise allover the pict. I found that the batteries had been run down to the very end. I had left them in my camera for awhile so they were weak to begin with, and then I finished them off with a bunch of quick shutter speed bursts.
So could it have been batteries? Just a thought

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Lenses / Re: Canon EF-S 18-55 f/3.5-5.6L IS [CR10]

« on: February 09, 2012, 07:48:02 PM »

An EF-S L lens? What?!

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EOS Bodies / Re: 5D Split? 5D X & 5D Mark III [CR1]

« on: February 09, 2012, 07:46:25 PM »

Hoping these stats hold. The video upgrade of the 5DIII sounds very good to me. Looks like a fine still cam as well.

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EOS Bodies / Re: What's Next? Lenses & Cameras

« on: February 09, 2012, 12:20:51 AM »

I don't think anyone has brought it up...

But what ever the camera combo, the Video offering need to output 1080p 4:2:2 video@60,30 and 24.
H.264 is a nightmare to deal with in the broadcast world (I work for CBS in SF). We don't generally have time for grading and tweaking. You need good clean video at about 50Mbs ( Broadcast Standard? I think? Even tough we broadcast HD @ 35Mbs).
I know the 5D II was a boon for the film guys and what a camera it is - I should'a bought that instead of 7D- but the film guys have time to deal with and grade the footage.
Looking at this from the video guy point of view- I sometimes use my 7D as a 2nd cam with a Sony XDCAM-HD 350L and ok, it's the old 35Mbs VBR not the 50 Mbs. We take the HD-SDI out to a Nanoflash drive and that writes 35Mbs .MOV files. Some how that was easier then dealing with the XD"wraper" that comes off the XD disk...Now, I'm wading into the Editor's world, where they speak in CODEC and RENDER TIME and XD WRAPPERS and things I don't understand.
The point is I give them my H.264 1080p 30frames video out of my 7D and they cringe and say this will take forever to render to 4:2:2 Prores HD (or whatever) in FCP.

The crazy high 4K should be held for maybe the C400? C300 is already 4K, they just have two green channels along with the R and B... and more things I don't, well, uh, understand ...

Am I making any sense?

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