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Canon did everything it could in 5D3

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scrappydog:

--- Quote from: prestonpalmer on May 01, 2012, 01:12:13 PM ---Canon held back significantly.

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Yep.  I used to make retail software for a living.  Product development is about identifying features and then product managers scope back the feature sets for the release.   Canon could do more if it wanted to do more.  It did enough (it thinks) to sell the 5DIII.

dilbert:
I disagree.

I believe they made a series of decisions about hardware for the camera that turned out to be bad choices.

1) Rather than use a newer sensor design, they've used a "fixed 5D2" sensor (or at least that is what it seems like)

2) Rather than use newer video hardware, they've used hardware that provides the same video support as the 5D2

pete vella:
I think canon did the best they could. the big debate over the sensor tech is not the mp but the way it handles shadows. sony sensor had to be designed to give great shadow detail becuase of the loss of light from the fixed mirror in the slt cameras. no other dslr ever had to deal with that kinda light loss. that why the sony sensor handles light the way it does. its a good thing for us because now canon has to improve to compete. I have a strange feeling thats why the 1dx was delayed. a top of the line camera has to be just that. and at the 1000 premuim over the d4 a frame or two per second over low iso dr lower read noise issue is not gunna cut it. the 1dx should been in the hand of the pros that are going to use it in the olypics by now. thats why the af manuals are already printed.
BTW
Area 51 is closed
all engineers have been moved to an undisclosed location.

peederj:
They gave it good AF and other decent stills things, but they purposefully crippled the video and there's no getting around that fact. This could have been the definitive 1080p cine camera, but they felt their oats and launched a whole cine division of underpowered, overpriced beauty queens instead. Over the next year they will have their heads handed to them and no one in film will even think about them anymore. This is the punishment for having low IQ managers lording over high IQ staff, soon to depart.

stevenrrmanir:
I do not think so. I am sick and tired of seeing incremental upgrades... they like to milk as much as possible!

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