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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: DxOMark scores for 5DMkIII out - total score 81, 5DMkII had 79

« on: April 19, 2012, 05:07:42 PM »

Phone cameras necessarily have tiny image sensors that can't capture as much light as the bigger sensors on compact cameras or the even bigger sensors of full-frame SLR cameras. But for a given surface area of image sensor, mobile phone cameras actually do better.

so all canon has to do is taking a mobile phone sensor and blow it up to fullframe.... and they would rule DxO mark.

hell that is a great idea.... i will just start calculating how many MP we will have then.

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EOS Bodies / Re: Canon is getting owned in sensor technology

« on: April 19, 2012, 04:56:49 PM »

afaik nikon has not much more to do with the D800 sensor then creating the read out.
so what are you talking about "nikon" sensor design?

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: Behind the scenes at DxO

« on: April 19, 2012, 04:48:46 PM »

Interesting read:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57415777-76/how-dxo-labs-tests-hot-cameras-like-canons-latest-slr/?tag=mncol;topStories

Phone cameras necessarily have tiny image sensors that can't capture as much light as the bigger sensors on compact cameras or the even bigger sensors of full-frame SLR cameras. But for a given surface area of image sensor, mobile phone cameras actually do better.

i knew my phone makes better images then my DSLR.. i knew it!!!   

i mean better per normalized sensor area... of course.

now that this is known.. canon should start blowing up mobile phone sensors designs to FF size. no need for expensive gapless microlenses and other stuff. 


ps: i would really like to see how mobile phones score in the DXO mark.
but they are not allowed to make their test public... whatever that means.

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EOS Bodies / Re: Is this a picture of the new 70D

« on: April 19, 2012, 04:17:48 AM »

Yes I do believe the latter image to be the correct image of the new 70D

Has anyone used one yet?

i have a bridge to sell...

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EOS Bodies / Re: What will be the response to the D3200?

« on: April 19, 2012, 04:11:05 AM »

Will there be a Canon "response"? and when?

no response.. canon will stop making cameras.... 

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Third Party Manufacturers / Re: Nikon announces D3200 - 24 MP APS-C

« on: April 19, 2012, 04:05:39 AM »

the new nikon looks like a killers entry level camera with 24mp for under $700, yes the iso performance will probably be shocking but will people who buy even understand that.

It appears that even most reviewers don't understand it -- in the opposite sense: I've seen comparisons between the 5D3 and the D800 where the conclusion was that the D800 was significantly worse at higher ISOs; others noted that the difference went away when downsizing the D800 to 5D3 resolution.

Put together it sounds like the conclusions about the D800 being worse were drawn from 100% crops, i.e. comparing the same number of pixels, rather than, as would be necessary for a valid conclusion, the same sensor area. Sigh.

and why would a normal customer buy such a 36MP camera to begin with?
to have the same noise and same details on A3 prints that he has with a camera that produces more manageable files?

or no wait he buys it for extrem cropping of bird images... and then has to live with the noise.

nah.... if i would buy a D800 i KNOW i would use it for LOW ISO shots.
studio shots or landscape shots when i use a tripod.

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Third Party Manufacturers / Re: Nikon announces D3200 - 24 MP APS-C

« on: April 19, 2012, 03:54:45 AM »

nikon just announced a 24 MP aps-c camera.

nikon and canon have truly switched paradigmas in only 1 year....


http://www.dpreview.com/news/2012/04/19/Nikon-D3200-with-WiFi-Option

rumor is it has the A77 / NEX-7 sensor...  or a slight modification of that sensor.



ps: i would not have started this thread if others would post in the right forum categorys.
but i don´t search the EOS BODIES forum for nikon threads. so i thought there was no thread about the D3200 yet.

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EOS Bodies / Re: The Big Megapixel Body in 2013?

« on: April 19, 2012, 03:53:00 AM »

nikon just announced a 24 MP aps-c camera.

nikon and canon have truly switched paradigmas in only 1 year....

http://www.dpreview.com/news/2012/04/19/Nikon-D3200-with-WiFi-Option

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EOS Bodies / Re: And now, a bit of finicky semantics: Is this 5D3 or 5Dω ?

« on: April 17, 2012, 08:22:03 AM »

ω is Ω = omega. When it is in a word, we pronounce it like an o.
It has nothing to do with w.

it looks like an rotated 3.... and like "w" for wedding .... that´s why he choosed it.

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EOS Bodies / Re: And now, a bit of finicky semantics: Is this 5D3 or 5Dω ?

« on: April 17, 2012, 08:18:42 AM »

blah....

So, I feel like handcuffed to a chair with a 5D3 in front of me. It looks at me with its big eye and tells me: “I’m not for you, buddy” … The wait is not over yet. Damn …

it´s dark and stormy here, that´s my excuse im not out shooting.. what´s your?

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EOS Bodies / Re: Canon releases are getting expensive!

« on: April 16, 2012, 10:47:28 AM »

Everyone is doing Beta releases these days... here is a somewhat old, but still relevant, article

as long as people blindly preorder products... why should companys change their way of releasing stuff?

i don´t preorder anymore and i don´t buy new software or hardware that is not out in the wild for a few month. that served me well for example as intel released the sandy bridge mainboards (sata bug).

i don´t have the time or the nerve to fumble around with beta products an wait until major bugs are fixed.

of course that a product is out for say 4-6 month does not mean it´s perfect or bug free... but at least you have an overview over how well it works and major flaws should be exploited by then.

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Speedlites, Printers, Accessories / Re: Question on color workflow from 60D to Pro 9000 MKII

« on: April 16, 2012, 07:29:56 AM »

Is there any benefit to using the Adobe RGB profile with it's expanded color gamut as the ICC profile when I
print using my Canon Pro 9000 MKII?

that sounds as if you want to use Adobe RGB as a PRINTER profile.
as astro wrote, that is a NO GO.. don´t do it.

as advised use a matching profile for your printer and paper.

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EOS Bodies / Re: Cinema EOS 1D & EOS C500 for NAB

« on: April 12, 2012, 04:51:54 AM »

Under the One Sony plan, the company is going to "focus on digital imaging, gaming and mobile for growth, until those three make up 70 percent of its total sales in 2014." (source, emphasis added) so we can expect the company to push forward in the digital imaging arena with competitive products.

question is.. focus on NEX or ALPHA?

will sony spend R&D on a sector (alpha) it will be very hard for them to compete?
they have to work on the lens lineup. im not sure that the results will justifie it.

but then... what do i know. 
i see only my surrounding and i don´t know a single person with a sony alpha.

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EOS Bodies / Re: Cinema EOS 1D & EOS C500 for NAB

« on: April 12, 2012, 03:56:13 AM »

Does anybody know what could be the price of the componets that make up a C500 that has a price of $35000?

Thank you very much!

same that makes ARRI cost 60k-120k i guess...

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EOS Bodies / Re: Cinema EOS 1D & EOS C500 for NAB

« on: April 12, 2012, 03:53:24 AM »

I seriously HOPE they keep the megapixels down. High Megapixels = bad video because of the downscaling that is needed..

well that is not true, if you use pixel binning.
and 18 MP would not be the optimum for 4k.