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1Ds Mark IV & A New "Hybrid Flagship" [CR1]

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Canon Rumors:
File this under “I was speaking to….”

“the person said that Canon’s primary focus with the 1Ds Mark IV was per pixel sharpness and dynamic range.”
Expect an announcement “soon”.
Hybrid Flagship

The 2nd part of the same email spoke of  “A dream camera for any pro photographer and cinematographer that needs the ultimate image and movie quality in difficult light environment”
The camera has been in testing for a short time now.
Specs:

- A lower mp  full frame Sensor

- Dynamic range optimized

- Raw video

- Continuous focus on video mode

- Smaller form factor than 1D series.
CR’s Take

Does that sound too good to be true? I would have said “yes” a year ago, not now though.
If Canon had spent $5 on market research, they would have discovered there is a massive market for a low megapixel/high iso performance professional hybrid DSLR.
Take this with a big grain of salt. However, such a camera is very possible.
cr

that1guy:
I really wish that was at least CR2! :)

c.d.embrey:
Lower pixels and a smaller size - maybe Canon will build a camera I'm interested in buying.

Bob Howland:
As somebody who has to use Photomatix Pro a lot more with my 5D than I'd like to, I can only applaud Canon's apparent new-found interest in increasing dynamic range.

catz:
I want this to be CR3. I am a bit sceptical though. Somehow big corporations always end up screwing up simple things because super-features become mediocrity in a committee. But if Canon is wise, I am really happy for them. It would be "Forget about Red Scarlet" then. I really really hope Canon can do it without screwing it up, from technical standpoint they should have all the capability to a hybrid camera that would even be better than Red One with Epic sensor. The only thing is to the product managers to let the engineers do what they are capable of.

I hope that video optimized means most importantly: good size reduction algorithm to both directions,
no line skipping => no aliasing => no moire => true 1080p resolution instead of the current not so true 1080p. No optical antialiasing filter is needed, it can be all done with mathematics in real time given that there was enough processing power and low enough latency in reading the sensor to interpolate lines vertically and not only interpolate  pixels horizontally (that the 5D apparently does atm, the aliasing problem is only to one direction).

The current compression algorithm with the current bitrate (even without raw video) would already provide stellar image quality provided that aliasing would not eat bits for representing fake details that actually do not belong to the scene but raw video would be even better. Of course raw might mean that raw video from HDMI out and recoding with external recorder. For practicality in mind, I would not like to do that most likely, I would be much happier if the camera would just record ProRes at 1920x1080/24p/25p/30p directly or higher resolution and frame rates, even better. For me it would not need to be more RAW than that (ProRes) since that is the format I am doing the editing anyway despite ProRes by no means is uncompressed. It is just compressed little enough to not suffer from problems. Arri Alexa reportedly records in this format, why couldn't Canon? Technically there would be nothing preventing. And it would not need to even be very expensive. The high price on "Professional digital cinema camera manufacturers" comes from low production volumes, and Canon does not have that problem. The rest may be organizational politics.

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