Hello from Kenya I’m currently at the Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya. Also known as “The Mara”. I’m obviously having a great time and will be here in Kenya for another 9 days or so. 70-300 f/4-5.6L IS I have one of these lenses with me here in Kenya on Safari. I am working on a review of the lens, it will be a user review like the others. If I could give you a bit of a hint of what I think about it, I’ve taken less than 10 frames with the 70-200 f/2.8L IS II and a…
Author: Canon Rumors
Effective December 6, 2010, Canon will start to provide as a chargeable service, a locking mode dial modification for the “EOS 5D MarkII” and “EOS 7D” digital single-lens reflex cameras. This modification is available, for a fee, to owners of these cameras who would prefer a Mode Dial which locks in place and can’t be accidentally moved during normal camera operation. For USA residents, the pricing of the locking mode dial modification service for EOS 5D Mark II and 7D cameras has been set at $100 per camera as of December, 2010. (Pricing and availability subject to change without notice.)…
What’s not coming All the patents for DO lenses has sparked some questions. I’m told that no DO lenses are planned for the near future. What is coming? From a decent source, this is claimed to be the roadmap. Timing of this stuff is still up in the air. You just have to look at the delays of the new lenses until March to see nothing is ever written in stone. There will be an abundance of “speciality” lenses. I can see it happening, you’re not going to sell that many tilt shift lenses, so production is less of an…
Firmware version 1.0.9 incorporates the following fixes. Fixes a phenomenon in which tone jumps become noticeable in some images, depending on the shooting scene, when shooting with the Auto Lighting Optimizer settings (Low / Standard / Strong). Download The Firmware Thanks again Olivier cr
Firmware version 1.2.3 incorporates the following fixes. Fixes a phenomenon in which the settings of the Speedlite Transmitter ST-E2 revert to the default settings when both the camera and the ST-E2 are set to auto power off. Fixes a phenomenon in which the Macro Ring Lite (MR-14EX, MT24-EX) and slave flashes do not sync while shooting wirelessly. Download the firmware thanks Olivier cr
Black Friday deals too I am making no money on this, the folks at LR.com have been great to me and thousands of others. They’ve started a huge sell-off of used rental gear. Lots of 7D’s and 5D Mark II’s have been added. They’re going to go fast. Their “Black Friday Deal” is 10% of ALL used gear from 6:00 AM CST Thursday and through until 11:59PM CST Friday. Visit LensRentals.com *UPDATE* It looks like the 5D Mark II’s are all gone now. *UPDATE 2* The 7D’s are gone now. Still a lot of great lenses to choose from. I…
New Processors Over at NL they received information that DIGIC V would show up in 2011. The 1Ds replacement would utilize the new processor. As you can expect, better image quality, movie quality and throughput should be expected. More DIGIC V I was told a little while ago that there would be 2 versions of DIGIC V. It wasn’t explained as to what the different versions would be. I file this under really big grain of salt. cr
Photo Contest Some CR facebook readers probably read about a Christmas photo contest I had planned. That’s been delayed until I can actually buy what I wanted to give away. Thanks Canon. I’ll have something up near the end of January. 70-300 f/4-5.6L IS I haven’t received one yet, but I hope to have one before I head to Kenya. I’d like to do a review with it there. A G12 and 60D review will also be completed sometime around Christmas. Like the Leica M9 review, they’re going to be real world photograph making reviews and nothing overly technical. Year end…
We’ve seen a 600 DO patents before, no lens yet. PR shows us a patent for a 600 f/5.6 DO lens. (JPO 2010-145832) We’ve seen patents for DO lenses before. There are 300mm, 400m and 600mm DO patents. Take a peak at some of the other lens patents Canon has filed. There was even one for a Zoom fisheye, though it’s different than what actually reached market. cr
Patent Publication No. 2010-237455 Release date 2010/10/21 Filing date 2009/03/31 Example 6 Focal length f = 24.90 – 102.02mm Fno = 3.62 – 5.82 Angle of 81.96 – 23.94 ° Image Circle 43.28mm Total lens length 119.84 – 151.84mm BackFocus 38.50 – 51.35mm An aspheric surface Patent Technology Pojitiburidotaipu zoom Zoom a positive polarity Chromatic aberration, spherical aberration, coma aberration correction Refractive index and placement optimization Moving the second lensInnerfocusing equation Zooming All the lens moves Miniaturization It looks like a cheap zoom for full frame. 5D3 low end kit lens? [source] cr