1D4 & 60D
I received an email that suggested select 1D4 and 60D's are being tested with 3″ OLED screens. Most of the test cameras are equipped with LCD screens.
USB 3.0
1D4 to be USB 3.0 ready. The initial camera shipments may come with it locked out, and be later turned on with a firmware upgrade as the spec reaches the masses sometime in 2010.
note: I don't have the technical knowledge to know if you can turn on usb 3.0 at a later date. If anyone has some insight, i'd appreciate it.
GPS & Wifi
The source says GPS will be built into the 1D4 and not the 60D. Wifi will be an addon product for both cameras.
Announcement
The same email states August 25, 2009 for the official announcement.
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113 Comments
I love the way that a number of people commenting on 60D wants are looking for pro level features at a bargain basement price. For me as a sports shooter id be happy with 10fps, 12MP, larger buffer for RAW bursts when i use it, high ISO improvements, dynamic range improvement, fast accurate AF and a screen that gives me a good idea of what im getting. Basically a twaeked MK3. As for the new stuff – USB3, why not and the extra speed would im sure be useful with tethered shooting. GPS – personally dont need it. OLED screen – if it works, great. Video – dont need it and as accreditation for events is usually MUCH stricter on video than stills so i can see why it might be a problem for Canon, i remember reading a report that said the F.A. approval was a possible sticking point aswell.
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Its a common missunderstanding on the web that video would be a problem.
My reply from further up:
That is so untrue.
Its when and where you publish your stuff you can get in trouble. Not when you do the shooting.
There´s no thing like an “video licenceâ€Â.
If no video in 1D, what stops me from bringing a 5D in my bag?
On every event they should have a very camera updated security guard to get thru your stuff to see if you can record video. It doesnt work that way.
Its the rights to publish a clip from a Premiere Leauge game, NHL game or whatever that maters, not the filming itself
I understand the semantics error in my statement which you ahve correctly identified. I am however confident that AF technology does not advance so rapidly as something like microchip technology, and I seriously doubt that AF has been improved to allow greater than 11 fps continuous, which we already know a FF mirror and shutter is capable of handling. I would be surprised if it couldnt do 12. so I still see no reason that APS-H can be justified as the correct choice simply on the basis of framerate.
The exposure would be the same, as would the depth of field. the background blur would be a little bit different between the two lenses, probably more attractive on the 50 f/1.2
f/stop is the ratio between aperture diameter and the focal length of the lens. so f/2.8 is 1:2.8, where the focal length is 2.8 times longer than the maximum aperture diameter. the brightness of a lens is controlled be two things. We can approximate a lens as a tube for this explanation. The brightness in the tube is controlled by how big the hole at the end is (aperture diameter) and how long it is (focal length) A quick experiment looking down some carboard tubes should confirm this for you. so you get the same brightness for equivalent ratios. meaning a 400/2.8 is only as bright as a 24/2.8, even though its aperture is much physically bigger. This is the reason why f/stop, which is an arbitrary convention was created, to establish standard amounts of light set through which would hold true across different lenses.
Hmmmm, seems to me the problem is the AF having time to lock focus between mirror flips, at a certain frame rate it’s just not possible. But I can see two possibilities around that for AF beyond 10-11 fps. One is as previvously mentioned the pellicle mirror, the other is a liveview mirror lockup. The pellicle is the better choice as you can still see through the lens, but they might also be able to put a liveview only mode for high speed shooting that may allow faster fps with camcorder type AF – which I must say has gotten pretty good with multiple face recognition and motion tracking. I suppose a third possibilty is they have managed to improve the AF lock on speed to handle faster fps, but I’m more skeptical of that possibility.