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EOS Bodies / Re: 3D (Again) & 5D Mark III (CR1)

« on: June 20, 2011, 06:10:05 AM »

I want a state of the art AF system, with 4 fps and 25-28 MP.

The 5D was originally meant for portrait/wedding photographers and the 5DII added better noise control, video, somewhat better AF and a few more MP. But it is still a portrait/wedding photographer's camera. I want it to remain as such and do not want to pay for weather-proofing, dual card slots or 6-7 fps. Leave these specs for higher end cameras and give us a state-of-the-art AF system.

No dual card slots? I would think those would be great for wedding photographers. If one card goes bad, you didn't just lose hundreds of irreplaceable photos.

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Lenses / Re: Why does not Canon have a 50-150 f.2,8 L is and a 150-300 f.2,8 L is lenses.

« on: June 08, 2011, 05:55:23 PM »

Because i would find it wery usefull if they did. I myself have a 17-40 and would find this zoom range 50-150 very useful indeed . So the next thing would naturally be a 150-300 f.2,8 L is zoom.
If they could make suche lenses. Im sure these two lenses would be very compact.

How in the world can you get fast tele-zooms that are "very compact"? A 150-300mm f/2.8 L would be a big white monster.

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EOS Bodies / Re: 5D Mk III storage

« on: June 08, 2011, 01:16:03 AM »

They'll probably stick to compact flash like all the other pro-level DSLRs. I'm hoping they put in a second slot for SDHC cards, but I have no idea if they'll implement something like that or not.

Regardless, what the MacBook has built in is pretty much irrelevant. Decent card readers are relatively inexpensive.

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Lenses / Re: Using EF-S lens on FF body???

« on: May 31, 2011, 12:23:03 AM »

To get around the mechanical issue, couldn't you just use a short extension tube designed to accommodate both EF and EF-S lenses? You'd lose infinity focus, but I would think it would work other than that.

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EOS Bodies / Re: 5D Mark III [CR1]

« on: May 20, 2011, 07:11:04 PM »

I don't understand why the burst rate is so low. 7 or 8fps would be glorious.

pushing 32MP is a lot of data, so burst rates that high would be pretty tough.

A higher burst rate could be accomplishing using dual Digic V processors like the 7D uses dual Digic IV.  This is how the 8 fps burst rate is achieved in the 7D.  Even so, the 5D is primarily a landscape camera so burst rate is a much lower priority, whereas the 7D is a sports/widlife camera where burst rate is much more important.   

At 32 MP they could implement an 8 MP 2x2 pixel binning mode. Even if shooting in full resolution is only 4 fps, with pixel binning they could easily push it to 8 fps. That size and rate would be perfect for me when shooting sports.

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EOS Bodies / Re: 37 Megapixel 1Ds Mark IV? [CR1]

« on: April 16, 2011, 07:32:03 PM »

Wow. If they do make the sensor 40 MP, I hope they incorporate a 2x2 pixel binning mode for nice 10 MP files when one doesn't want enormous images eating up card and disk space so quickly.

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EOS Bodies / Re: 5D3, 1D5 and 1Ds4 Timeline [CR1]

« on: March 27, 2011, 12:05:13 PM »

Is anyone else not happy about Canon packing more mega-pixels in?

Low light / high ISO performance is way more important to me than adding (what are in most cases) superfluous pixels.