Coming February?
Another good source feels that the 1Ds4 will be announced in February.
From what's been heard, the 1Ds4 will contain some 7D design features. There were no specifics given.
Electronic level comes to mind for me.
5D Mark II Price Drop
The 5D2 seems to be dropping in price. It's $200 less at B&H. I'm not at home right now to confirm official price drops or dealer rebates.
The Nikon D900 is coming, perhaps that's the reason.
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You Jewish, Adrian?
Canon U.S.A. has a product tour up for the EOS-1D Mark IV. This is somewhat odd, as it isn’t selling in US stores yet!
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Hey Guys, All this talk about the 1Ds Mk4…. what about the 1D Mk4??? We don’t even have any here in the states yet, I’ve put money down, waiting and waiting, come on Canon!!, Have I got to order one from Sweden?? And all this talk about features… does anyone actually shoot? I’m a pro shooter and have been amazed how crappy new camera’s are, even the 7d is a silly little toy, Who’s idea was it to put a round knob on the camera… without a lock? and this high asa??? I shot low light action last week, HA!! the grain is unusable above 1200asa, 800asa is almost acceptable for print… and of course low light focusing is just a joke, I don’t know what kind of focus group Canon uses but they must only shoot flowers and pets.
Yes, of course, that makes sense. I would like to see (and would buy unless price is crazy) a 1Ds4 with 32mpx. However, there are some issues with increasing mpx count:
– Resolution: Lenses simply cannot resolve much more than the current max density of 24mpx (D3x). We are reaching a real ‘physical’ limitation. All those point and shoots with 18mpx are a good way to sell hard drives. Junk pixels.
– Noise: Noise level for the sensor size implied by a 32mpx count is very hard to make low. Those people saying you can get the same noise level from a 32mpx density than you can from a 18mpx (and I have not yet seen if that can match D3s’s 12mpx density levels) are on something.
– Color performance: As you reach a 32mpx density on a 24×36 format, I wonder what you can do to the edges to avoid massive color fringes (and the resulting lower effective resolution at the edges). Leica is already doing some intricate microlensing on the M9 to avoid this problem, and that’s with an 18mpx sensor.
Clearly Canon’s engineers have a formidable challenge here. It’s not all that different from the processor speed challenge of Intel et al. It seems to me that after all the only way forward (that is higher resolution if you need it) is the Leica S2 way (or the H3 way).
Also, I wish Canon really got their act together in terms of autofocus and ergonomics. I personally think Nikon has done way better in these two regards.
mig
Agree. They do have to produce an answer to Nikon’s 14-24/2.8. They’ve already addressed the 70-200/2.8 with an update.