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April Fools Fun
I know at least one blog that was taken by this for about 40 minutes! (I won't tell who unless he admits it)
Exclusive: Canon DSLR video goes RAW!!
We have been hearing mutterings of this for the past few weeks. “Top DPs in Europe testing out RAW recording on Canon 5Dmkii”. It all sounded like nonsense didn’t it? Well I can exclusive reveal today (we are ahead of the US in time zones here in the UK) as the embargo I was given 0001 BST 1/4/10 has passed that Canon have done exactly what we wanted. RAW baby, RAW! New firmware will be released imminently for every camera from the Rebel T1i/ 500D through to the 1DmkiV giving it the much desired RAW recording on the memory cards. Not just that, but they have also finally unlocked the HDMI out to give us an uncompressed feed so we can plug in our Nanoflash or KiPro and record into a format that we have dreamed of.
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Jeff Ascough
Jeff confirms that his rangefinder tweet was an April Fools joke.
Some people were upset by it, I wasn't one of those people. I just wanted it to be true. :)
cr
Sad it wasn’t true but defintley too good to be true. They could have throw in a firmware upgrade to upgrade the AF system on the 5d mark II also :)
Im still waiting on my 20-400/2.8 IO purple ring lens….
I still love my photography. Video on dslr’s will just be another gimmick like the scene modes.
that ‘blog’ was me — Philip and I were trading messages and he was telling me (before he posted the blog) about how cool this was and how he got it from “high up in the organization” etc… then it dawned on me he said he was going to post it at 6pm central time (where I am) and that meant it was midnight in England where he is… and the lighbulb went off!
At least I figured it out :)
Hahaha that’s great.
APRIL FOOLS NEEDS TO DIAF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now that’s just mean, Canon Rumors… :)
I don’t think most people realize it is not possible with current consumer grade technologies, the idea sounds great but there are not SD or CF cards that could handle the monumental write speeds that would be needed to capture raw video, not to mention if they could they would be filled up in a matter of seconds.
5D mark II Team, has been awfully quiet in the comments, perhaps he may have been sucked in!
Yes! Go register and you will get a Celine Dion concert video flashed into your camera after firmware updated! lol
Agreed. Offer a “stills only” version, and cut $500 off the sale price? Please?
Prefer Britney Spears.
Next generation, CF6.0
How many times do you naysayers need to be told: it doesn’t cost anything to implement video in dSLR’s!
No, they’d have to upgrade the AF sensor.
You want $500 off? Take out the CMOS sensor.
Dumb joke. Not remotely plausible with current memory capacity and processors.
Pity you cant afford one!
Yawn….
Next year’s April 1…
Not necessarily.
Remember, 1920×1080 is only 2 megapixels which in turn would make about 3 megabytes of RAW image file I would guess.
30 frames per second makes 90 megabytes per second – and this is what Sandisk’s current lineup of CF cards can do.
You could record about 11 minutes onto a 64 GB card.
Nikon will be announcing later today a 21MP D800 and full HD 1080p video with 24p/25p/30p and priceing at at $2.5k!!!!
But you can connect HDD to some dSLR’s (via special grip) like for Canon 40,50D and 7D (and other’s I think) so this would solve storage problem for RAW Video.
Beware, with 14bit/pixel that won’t work out. Even with compression current raws are about Megapixels*1,5Megabytes.
Also your average high end camera delivers RGB-pixels, to get the same color resolution from a bayer-sensor you need extra resolution.
Perhaps a RAID-setup would do? That would take care of the storage capacity issue at well.
He got me over at C5D. He did pepper me with a few tweets, saying something massive was coming. I should have know better. Fun time for all involved. Thanks,
jared
What a crappy, unimaginative April fool. I mean, this had been rumored for a while, so saying that it had happened took no imagination at all. Take a look at Google’s AFs over the years. They actually try to be imaginative.
You so you know:
http://www.canonrumors.com/2009/04/canon-ef-20-400-f28-io-usm-is/
It was last years April Fools ;)
Do you have any facts to back up that claim?
Every added feature costs money in terms of electronics design effort and parts (i.e. video encoding chips), firmware and software design, testing, and support materials (documentation etc.).
April Fools!
No chance of variable frame rates.
This is all nice, but file size is still limited to 4GB for a single file. Don’t be rushing out to buy your 64GB cards just yet.
worst april foolsday joke ever… i wasnt even amazed.
This one is also fun:
http://www.dpreview.com/news/1004/10040101roktonsensor.asp
Oh that is very standoffish of you. If you know so much why not tell a little? And by little we don’t mean “all is said, not all is correct”, because it seems to me you were caught with your pants down on the last big feeding frenzy too, or your “tips” are so nondescript that a grade schooler could nail them. Canon are bringing out a 1Ds MkIV, would be an example. Nobody wants to know if you are bored, believe me even the most fervent CR addict has more interesting and important things to do.
May be split file
I really liked CR’s April Fool’s last year. The lens got me for just a second until I started reading the specs. I particularly appreciated the clever acrostic.
Are you retarded?
TIME costs money.
Every time a Canon engineer implements a firmware “fix” for these video features, they’re not doing something else. They definitely aren’t making still photography better – they’re stuck trying to cater to would-be videographers and their SLRs.
Wow that was useful.
It’s funny how some people literally have zero sense of humour. Oh well! Can’t make everyone smile.
That may be true.
But… Canon’s video technology has already been formulated. Now it doesn’t cost to slap video into a new dSLR.
I would like this very much. Maybe give the 5d mkII a little competition and push the development of the mkIII.
RAW video… OMG… Who need this?