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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: Canon EOS 7D Firmware 2.0 Available for Download

« on: August 07, 2012, 10:16:59 AM »

I like how Canon has a middle finger up to all the 1D IV buyers, the 7D get's a major 2.0 firmware update
and 1D IV is still at 1.1.1

Granted the 1D IV works great but 1D IV was announced later than the 7D an now it is already discontinued
from production with no new improvements in the firmware.

If you ask Canon they probably won't admit 1D IV ever existed and laugh at whoever bought it.

Absolutely true.

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: Canon EOS-1D Mark IV Firmware 1.1.1

« on: March 30, 2012, 11:01:25 AM »

How many firmwares we have seen for the 5D-II including improvements and new functionalities, and how few for this much more expensive and more professional camera...

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EOS Bodies / Re: Canon EOS-1D X f/8 to be Added? [CR1]

« on: February 05, 2012, 12:35:41 PM »

Yes, Canon, yes, please!!

(Although in a very recent 1DX presentation a Canon rep told me that it's impossible to correct this issue in firmware).

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PowerShot Cameras / Re: Canon PowerShot G1 X ISO Sample Images

« on: January 12, 2012, 04:32:29 AM »

The high ISO noise is really much better than the G12 and some of the other cameras compared, and solves the problem of the G series for street and indoors photography. Well done!

But I am really worried by the very bad optical quality of the Canon G1X lens at the edges. Download and compare the full image edges (the city map, for example) with the Panasonic GX1 or other cameras. The centre is perfect, crystal clear but the edges are blurry, clearly the worst.

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EOS Bodies / Re: 1D X Limitations Fixable?

« on: January 08, 2012, 12:21:15 PM »

I need my EOS-1D autofocus with f8 lenses. I used all my EOS-1 with the 500/4 +2X with good results. As a professional nature photographer sometimes I need this range for rare wildlife.

Also exposure compensation with Auto ISO. Fix a shutter and an aperture, and have the exposure compensation dial work.

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EOS Bodies / Re: 5D Mark II Firmware 2.1.1 Sighting

« on: November 11, 2011, 06:18:43 AM »

That's a shame: so many firmware with new functionalities and updates for that prosumer camera, and almost any for the professional and expensive 1D IV: the only EOS still without manual sound control.

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Lenses / Re: Canon EF 200-400 f/4L IS Development Announced

« on: February 07, 2011, 12:33:44 PM »

That's the perfect lens for wildlife photography many of us have been waiting for years, looking with dispare at the Nikon 200-400mm f/4.

And NO, it's clearly NOT the replacement of the small and much cheaper Canon EF 100-400mm/4.5-5.6L. Nikon has both lenses in their range: the 80-400mm f/4.5-5.6 and the 200-400mm f/4. Both are for different users. I will buy the 200-400mm f/4!

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Lenses / Re: Canon EF 200-400 f/4L IS Development Announced

« on: February 07, 2011, 08:08:30 AM »

The photo has a metal loop that I think is not a part of the lens, but rather a part of an anti-theft device (the one with a metal wire that has a lock on one side, and a big lump on the other side that wouldn't pass through the loop).

Thats the empty space to put the internal teleconverter when not in use, like the TV lenses.