UPDATE
The 7D rumor that was here briefly was supposed to remain a draft in WordPress, not get published… apologies for that.
60D Rumor
Someone claiming to have seen the final proofs for the 60D brochure says these are the specs of the upcoming 60D.
I'd love to see a photograph of the brochure. All submissions are anonymous!
Here are some of the specs:
– sensor seems to be a tweaked version of the current 15MP sensor (better
DR, better high ISO IQ, eliminated pattern banding at high ISO)
– 98%-coverage, 0.96x magnification VF
– 3″, 1150K-pixel, active-matrix, organic LED display (25% higher-res than
current 960K screens)
– 19-pt., all-cross type area AF ellipse (basically, the current 1-series AF
point layout w/o the 26-pt. assist AF pts.; the new 1-series apparently will
have an all-new 45-pt., all-cross type AF module; what limits Canon from
drastically reworking the AF-point layout is the fact that all the currrent
Speedlights have AF-assist beam patterns that are designed only for 7, 9 &
45-pt. AF layouts–they just can't make a new area AF design or add more AF
pts. that easily because of that).
– 1080p@30fps full HD video with full manual controls and contrast-
detect AF, stereo audio inputs
– 7.4FPS@14-bit mode (CIPA-standard testing method)
– new DiGIC V is more than 2x faster than current DiGICIV, enables
onboard processing of all those DPP functions still not done in-camera
with the current cams (i.e., lateral CA correction, geometric
distortion correction, better highlight & shadow detail extraction,
plus new “Diffraction Elimination” function: pixel-level contrast
enhancement and sharpening to counteract aperture-related diffraction
effects)
– AE microadjustment; +/- 3 EV range with 1/6EV steps; separate saved
corrections for Evaluative, CWA, Partial and Spot metering
– new higher capacity, slightly higher-voltage (to drive the faster
mechanicals & electrical readouts for the higher framerate), chipped
Li-Polymer battery (LP-E7), with new, magnesium-alloy framed BG-E7
battery grip with AF-ON and mini-joystick selector buttons duplicated
– lastly, an all-new, pleasantly surprising “feature” that would bring
a smile to all the Canon loyalists (just watch for it) ;)
cr
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A MLU button? If true, this is the sign of how low Canon just got :(
how is an additional button supposed to be a f*king new feature??
Ugh, I sure don’t want the 60D to be APS-H. I like having wideangle lenses available to me, thanks, and a format that can’t use the full width of an EF wide and can’t mount an EF-S wide just flat out sucks for wide.
It looks credible to me.
Basically just the current model with a nicer screen, nicer AF, faster FPS, and video. These are the things that they’ve been improving on the xxD line since the 20D. And the even-first-digit xxD cameras tend to be slightly bigger jumps.
So basically, they’re just pulling the 1D AF system down since they’re upgrading it in the 1D IV (just like the Rebel XTi got the 30D’s AF system when they were planning to soup it up for the 40D), improving the LCD (just like they did going from the 20D to 30D, and the 30D to 40D, and the 40D to 50D), speeding up the FPS (which they also did going from 10D to 20D and 30D to 40D), and adding video (which they’ve been doing across the board in the same way that everything got the built-in cleaning system starting with the XTi).
It’s a completely logical evolutionary upgrade. And given that the D300 and now D300s are still better than anything Canon has in that bracket, they’re all very needed changes. The xxD line has always sort of competed with the D70/80/90 range at the same time as the D100/D200/D300 range, but of late it’s been losing ground to the D90 and utterly blown away by the D300 and D300s.
Even if the guy didn’t actually get this from an actual Canon sales brochure, most of these are specs that I would have guessed just from observing Canon’s upgrades over the years.
Compared to the 30D, the 40D had
a. 9 cross-type sensors (vs. 1)
b. A better sensor (10MP vs 8MP)
c. Faster FPS (6.5 vs 5)
The 50D wasn’t a very big upgrade from the 40D…but neither was the 30D a very big update from the 20D. They’re due for a big update.
Nikon’s latest batch of P&S cameras (announced today) have OLED screens.