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Northlight suggests March 2nd announcement and 22MP,6fps,full 1DX AF,best video quality of any DSLR.
http://www.northlight-images.co.uk/cameras/Canon_5d3.html
BUT also the photoshopped image to have eye-control (bottom right corner)... Fun, but bring on that truckload of salt for now.
So is NorthLight on its post on 2006 August 1st. I think rumor sites just like to tease with obviously photoshopped images.
As has already been said, for close up work or scenes with both distant and close objects, you will get parallax errors and "ghosting" of the objects if you don't use a panoramic head and the correct nodal point. So indoor scenarios more-or-less demand a proper setup. I use the RRS (Really Right Stuff) head and find it awesome to use.
But just as important to note, even if you use the best possible setup and have all the nodal points for your body and lens combinations, to get optimal results you must use fully manual setup in the camera - manual focus, manual white balance, and manual setting (not Av or Tv). Prepare the settings off the part of the image you want perfectly exposed (the rest will generally be very close, but may be slightly over- or under-exposed in a stand-alone image) and you will have far less post-processing issues, and the quality of the final image will be improved. If you don't do this, you can end up with light banding and areas of softness in the overlapping regions.
If I'm doing landscapes with only distant objects, I will occasionally do hand-held panoramas as the "errors" are far less obvious, but I still use a fully manual setup in the camera.
Hope this helps.
Stitching is a good way to get those extra mps into a landscape. I have to laugh when I hear that a high mps body is the only way. So shoot in portrait and stitch. Far more detail in a 5x 5DII than a single D800 image
Cropping will never replace framing the image well in the first place.Well, yes and no, right? The D800 has a DX Mode that turns it into a crop-sensor camera. The only reason it can do this is because it has a huge number to start out with and it pre-crops it for you down to a 16MP camera. I don't know how this looks in the viewfinder or how it works in practice. It will be interesting.
Think of all the arguments that would just vanish if they came out with an über 5D that had enough MPs to be able to put it into an 16MP crop mode. Also, if you put an EF-S lens on it, it automatically senses it and puts the camera into crop mode.
Yeah, this is pretty much what the D800 does. Cool, right?
Then breaks the mirror/lens? The main reason you can't put a EF-S lens onto a FF/EF Only camera isn't that Canon don't want you "cropping down" in camera, its more that the EF-S lenses work by getting closer to the sensor - hence the S - "Short back focus" if i remember correctly. IE, once the lens is on, its a lot closer to the sensor AND mirror, and with the bigger sensored/mirrored cameras, that means theres a massive chance of it making contact.
Its not so much Canon don't want to, its more of a design issue, where the EF-S lenses were designed that way, in order to reduce cost & end user price
One thing I've never really understood, and maybe someone like neuro can inform me, but why does the Canon naming/numbering seem discontinuous and random. By that I mean we have the flagship in the 1D, and pro-bodies and generally accepted next level down being the 5D, followed by current 7D (ignoring all mark versions).
So why is the next Series "leader" the 60D and not the 10D (which is no longer available)?
Is this rumour, and the rumoured 5D split into 2 bodies, the change to their naming paradigm? Could we see the rumoured 5D split become 5Dx (22MP, 1D type AF, etc) and 7Dx (full-frame big MP based on existing 7D sensor scaled up, 7D type AF spec, higher fps - hence no 7D2 - and as seen in Kenya which looked very 7D-esque), with the successor to the 7D becoming the 10Dx and we see a gradual naming convention trickle down over time? The 10Dx becomes the APS-C flagship with current 7D type features including the AF and build standard?
Just a thought based on a huge number of rumours and postings of late.
If Canon were to stick to their naming convention the followup 7D would be the MK II. Only the XXD, XXXD etc change their model number. PRobably due to the 1D and 5D being very strong brands, not so sure about 7D though, so... Maybe it'll be an 8 or 9 or 10?
And if you think Canons naming is weird look at Nikons.
$3000 for body
$2000 + to upgrade computer
$400 on hardrives
$400 on CF cards
wow! a lot of big assumptions being made here and based on those assumptions some very big dollar upgrades
Just bought two external 2Tb drives (Samsung) for equiv $300. As I rigorously go through and delete the not so good photos I dont want to keep I reckon I could get well over 2 years worth of 45gb files on them (sync'd)
I couldn't reckon on a new computer - mine is a 4 year Core 2 Duo that still does the job, and even if does take longer on each file, as a hobbyist that means I wont have to rush the cup of teaI did 550 file adjustments in less than 2 minutes in DPP.
If DxO or something simillar is being used it then perhaps a faster workflow would benefit.
Bring on the best IQ and the biggest mp, providing it is an improvement I will upgrade when it is convenient