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EOS Bodies / Re: Is This the EOS 3D?

« on: June 18, 2013, 10:01:04 PM »

It's the super-secret 9D..... A camera so secret that it uses the number of a different rumoured camera on it's strap....

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EOS Bodies / Re: A Big Megapixel Discussion

« on: June 17, 2013, 08:12:13 PM »

I am not sure I'd call 30-50mp DSLR's "medium format killers".

Agreed! And we must not forget that as technology advances and the pixel count and quality of FF advances, so will the MF cameras....

Everything has it's plusses and minuses.... as sensor format sizes get larger, so does the lens mm size needed for the same field of view... and the area of the lens is squared.... and the weight is cubed..... and the cost!!!!
For studio work, it's hard to compete with MF.... but if you are lugging a camera up a mountain to attempt some bird photos, then FF or even APS-C can't be beat. Can you imagine the size/weight/cost of the MF equivalent of a 600mmF4?

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EOS Bodies / Re: Is This the EOS 3D?

« on: June 17, 2013, 02:05:30 PM »

And my binoculars have a strap on them that says "Canon 60D"...... and my 70-200 lens has a cap on it that says "Olympus".... labels can be deceiving.

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EOS Bodies / Re: A Big Megapixel Discussion

« on: June 17, 2013, 08:08:30 AM »

yes they have the ability to produce finer circuits when it comes to smaller sensor sizes and it was also mention earlier by me.
And regarding 46Mp, the question is if they can expose a 24x36mm surface  in one seance and if they  the have the  lenses and peripherals that meet this requirements, and will Canon is continuing with their old readout technique?
it requires considerably higher demands from  equipment to expose a large 24x36mm sensor surface than a small compact camera surface in one seance

Agreed!

They have demonstrated thier ability to go into production with the finer lithography. At some point the yields will be high enough to go into larger size components.... I suspect that they are there, or at least close too it... only time will tell.... but is quite possible that they are not quite there and that this is what is holding up announcements on new bodies... but this is just speculation, I have no inside knowledge.

There are lots of "interesting" indications of something going to happen. There is a push to update/create high end lenses that have the resolving power to handle a high megapixel body, hybrid focusing, digic6 into p/s cameras, finer lithography, and rumours of some very different sensors under field testing. If it all comes together, the next year could be a large step forward for APS-C and FF cameras.

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Site Information / Re: banning people for nothing at canon rumors

« on: June 16, 2013, 08:32:22 PM »

Wow, Don - you have way more patience to wade through 48 pages of "wisdom" than I did...

I didn't even make it halfway...

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Animal Kingdom / Re: Your best animal shots!

« on: June 16, 2013, 07:14:35 PM »

Thought I might just hear your opinions on this quick shot i did yesterday. Find it quite pleasing myself, therefore i need your comments

Haven't been doing animal shots before, what's to aim for?

(And which one do you prefer?)

I like them both. The cat really stands out from the background! Normally I don't like animal pictures where the animal is staring directly at you, but the second one really works. I'd pick it as my favourite. NICE!!!

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Site Information / Re: banning people for nothing at canon rumors

« on: June 16, 2013, 06:10:11 PM »

Once there was a poster who threatened to write his congressman about having his freedom of speech infringed due to a deleted post.
 
I'm not sure how he thought his congressman would do something about a Canadian website that removed a inappropriate post.  I'm certainly all for Freedom of Speech, but it also implies responsibility.

A lot of people think Freedom of Speech is an absolute, but the reality is that rights to Freedom of Speech are over-ridden by hate-laws, slander laws,  and the "fire" exception... Yelling "FIRE" in a crowded theatre is considered inappropriate and is NOT protected by Freedom of Speech laws

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Site Information / Re: banning people for nothing at canon rumors

« on: June 16, 2013, 05:47:30 PM »

^^

Thanks for taking the time to condense those quotes Don.

It's because of CR's absence of this kind of inane bull***t that I, and I'm sure many others choose CR to follow and post on. So many other forums are full of this kind of crap; let's keep it off here.

The overall standard of CR would suggest the admin and mods are doing a good job.

But it wasn't all bad.... I found one post where after disagreeing, he called the other person "a genius"...

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Site Information / Re: banning people for nothing at canon rumors

« on: June 16, 2013, 05:25:53 PM »

As for 'out of air accusations', how would you feel if, hypothetically, I called you, "Not the brightest bulb?" 

And don't forget "braindead fantasy freaks who believe in miracles", "you know nothing", "some people are just so naïve", "i wonder how you guys survive in the real world", "if your serious then i not only pity your taste but wonder about how you can ignore the technical flaws in the composit", "i have problems getting what you brabble about", "yeah thanks for that crap looking example", "even when i take my glasses of it still looks like a bad composit... that is hard to achive", "yeah well that is why you PAY a professionell photographer. what a moron", "do we have MODS here who move such threads or are they just deleting threads where MODS get corrected and they look stupid?", "we all take crap pictures like you",  "reading your first sentence and then the rest of your stuff.... it crossed my mind if you are a bit schizophrenic", "next time think about what you write for a second", "well your mother knows not much about photographer that´s for sure", "yeah if your IQ is at 2 digits", "fuk you canon", "stick it where the sun don´t shine", "your posting is bullshit", "if you use your fanboy brain on your third posting here, you might get it", "what do you know?", and the grand finale....

"and especially why this topic is still active in a forum where topics should be about RUMORS.. i mean why do we have MODS here?", "suck my balls"......

There seems to be a pattern.......are you still wondering why the author of this "wisdom" got banned?

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Site Information / Re: banning people for nothing at canon rumors

« on: June 15, 2013, 11:26:50 PM »

I do have a black squirrel picture.....

Does anyone have a pic of a white squirrel???

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Site Information / Re: banning people for nothing at canon rumors

« on: June 15, 2013, 11:18:23 PM »

What's a Yes/No Teller ??
What's DR ?? I thought "Dead Reckoning", but it could mean something else
Whats "High Ceiling" ?? is that like 30,000 feet in a 747 ??
200-400 what ?? Squirrels ?? That's a damn load of squirrels

And he mentioned "We must know what we are talking about", I mean, everyone knows this thread has lost the Plot, and it's now about Squirrels, and Nut Zippers (sounds exceptionally painful), and who can Post the most bizarre Image of a Squirrel, and Criminals that Live upside down in a place called Downunder.

DR stands for Dynamic Range.... as in the Dynamic Range of North American Squirrels is from Atlantic to Pacific, from tropics to the Tundra.....

I would have included a picture of a black squirrel, but it night-time here and black squirrels in the darkness don't show well.... my Canon camera does not have enough DR...

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: 5D Mk III with 50mm f/1.8 II - bad images?

« on: June 15, 2013, 09:21:13 PM »

Getting the color right on indoor shots is not as easy as it sounds. It helps to throw something white (like a sheet of paper, or even better, a colour balancing card) into the picture, shoot it, and then take the picture again without it... Use the test shot and your RAW file to figure out what the color balance should be, and then use the same settings on the second shot.

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EOS Bodies / Re: Canon EOS 70D Coming in July? [CR2]

« on: June 15, 2013, 09:11:12 PM »

I am eagerly awaiting the release of the 70D as my 500D is becoming iffy some shots just seem to disappear and the finance officer (hubby) has suggested I should have a new camera this will be my last chance to move to a better camera as we are both recent retirees. Does Canon do a world wide release or is there a trickle down effect I am in Australia and hope that the release is pretty much world wide. The next trip away is mid August and I would love to have the camera by then, if not I will just have to be patient.
Jill 

When the release a new camera, it is usually available everywhere at the same time. There will be a week or so variation between various suppliers, but normally it's fairly close together.

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EOS Bodies / Re: A Big Megapixel Discussion

« on: June 15, 2013, 08:57:23 PM »

Canon wanted to upgrade its glass before releasing the higher MP bodies, and now they have filled out some of the line (never going to keep everyone happy) then they have a complete env. for photographers. Releasing the body before releasing the better lenses doesn't make sense and I would guess does not need the same investment as a new sensor line. Investing in lenses means you get a better return as it appeals to all sorts of shooters, so you've got a larger addressable market than the high mp body will have

Meanwhile develop the next sensor tech to support them for perhaps the next 7 to 10 years (given previous cycles), and also watch and see how the market responds to the d800 - this in itself takes a reasonable time before you can reasonably assess the impact. And while you wait that new sensor tech is still useful for the whole of your product line.

It will be a pro body as I said earlier, and a body in between this and the 5d. Finally it will be in the 7d ii but perhaps a higher pixel density. Interesting times...

And the right   translation would mybe  be: Canon can not with its sensor technology increase the number of pixels without using the sensor line from the  compact sensor line , they can not use the old sensor lines as these are to course / rough. This means new sensors line which there are no indications that Canon have invest in, a investments of several billion dollars as for example Sony has done, or they can use the compact sensor line and stitch together an APS or 24x36mm sensor with a high cost
WE WILL soon  SE WHAT CANON HAVE IN THEIRS SLEAVES, the market outside Canon = Omnivision, Toshiba, Sony, Renesas, Aptina etc are not standing still in theirs own developments of new sensors tech from mobile sensors  up to 24x36mm sensors
When the annual meetings are  regarding  the new  sensor technology  Canon are not involved  in this  meetings, tell me what are the odds that at Canon would come with a new sensor technology before others as Toshiba, Panasonic, Sony etc?
Then they can say that they are improving the  lenses or what ever in the mean time.

OMG! Canon does not attend meetings at Toshiba, Panasonic, and Sony to discuss sensors! I am shocked!

And they can not increase the number of pixels without using the compact sensors? (1.6*1.6*18M = 46M, they could build a 46Mpixel FF sensor with the same technology and pixel size as APS-C).

There is no indication that Canon has invested in new sensors? I would assume that in the 6 years since the current tech was introduced in APS-C that if the design division had not done anything more than playing cards and surfing the web, that they would have all been fired.... Just because you or I don't know the details does not mean that they are all asleep. Oh wait.... there are new sensors... on the p/s cameras... I guess they have been working....

Canon has the ability to do finer lithography on it's circuits than what we see on APS-C and FF sensors. The P/S lineup is proof. (They get the new technology first because that's where the money is).

This is a rumours site. The only thing we can state about future offerings is that we don't know. In looking at the big picture, it helps to realize that that it is not cameras like the 1DX and $10,000 primes that drives Canon...The big money is in the small items.. P/S cameras are more important than Rebels. Rebels are more important than 60D's and 6D's.... which are more important than 7D's and 5DII's, which are more important than 1DX's... Canon will make a lot more profit on a $350 50-250 zoom than the just released 200-400... If you want to guess what will happen at the top, look to the bottom.

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Lenses / Re: What is the next Canon lens you want or covet and why...

« on: June 14, 2013, 09:21:07 PM »

50f1.8 ?

 that is a great little lens.   for about three years it was my favorite lens.   now I have three L  lenses and a fisheye,  and while they are excellent,  most of my photos that hang on the wall are from that one hundred dollar  plastic lens.   but part of that might be laziness about printing out new prints and framing them.

And if you believe DXO, it is rated higher than the 600F4 V2...... And at only 1/80th the price..