Author: Canon Rumors

This is an exact quote of an email I received. “2010 will be the year for the (semi-) pro’s due to the fact that Canon lost huge marketshare to Nikon. The new year will bring no 60D, and no follow up for the 500D. What will be anounced will be the 1Ds IV. This will be a totally new product with a new design. The new design is needed due to the fact that new sensor will be 35x35mm. So sort of medium format but not a full medium format. The new sensor and format is needed to go into…

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A2100 Discontinued Received word today that the A2100 is discontinued and all stock is depleted. This will be the first of many PowerShot related posts throughout December I’m sure. cr

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The camera we never get right The following is a possible feature list of an upcoming 2000D. Specs 15.1mp ISO 100-6400 720p Video 2.5″ Articulating Screen 3fps in RAW Thanks Jim cr

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EVIL (Electronic Viewfinder, Interchangeable Lens) 43rumors says they have it on good authority that Canon is about to release a Canonet GIII style digital camera with interchangeable lenses. I haven’t heard even a peep from anyone in a long time about this type of camera. Source: http://43rumors.com/ft3-canon-giii/ Thanks Are cr

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Too good to be true? A cryptic message today said Canon is developing their first f/2 zoom. The broken english of the email said the lens would be a “short zoom range”. There was no focal length given. cr

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From Hudson Magic Lantern is coming to the Canon 7D — the dev team can produce valid, signed firmware images and run their own code on the camera. The first video shows a 7D booting into a test firmware that draws colors bars and writes the ROM image to the CF card for analysis. Magic Lantern progress on the Canon 7D from Trammell Hudson on Vimeo. Thanks for all your hard work Hudson, a lot of people appreciate it. cr

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USA We’re been told that a certain business was told by Canon to expect their order of 5 1D Mark IV bodies on December 15, 2009. Canada I’ve been told to expect the bodies to be available the first week of January in Ontario. That’s from 1 store, looking for confirmation from others. EU We should start seeing them appearing in various parts of Europe around the 15th of December. Asia I’ve received no information about the Asian market… as usual, they’ll probably get a few first. Thanks Mark cr

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From Jeff Ascough Jeff had a chance to take the new 1D Mark IV on location to a wedding to test the lowlight AF and higher ISO quality. I can’t think of too many people more qualified to do so. He doesn’t use a flash 99% of the time when shooting a wedding. Check his thoughts and samples: http://jeffascough.typepad.com/…. cr

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Camera RAW 5.6 Beta vs Camera Raw 5.5 Photoframd has posted some comparison images of various RAW converters for the EOS 7D files. http://blog.photoframd.com/…. “The First” Feature Length Film…. …. made using the 7D http://www.theaspectratio.net/…. Disclaimer: I do not fact check “The first” claims. Darwin Wigget’s 7D Review… the counterpoint Pro Photo Home has posted a retort to the claims made by Darwin Wigget and his review of the 7D. Pro Photo Home seems to be doing tests at f/5.6 & f/16. I think the issue with the 7D was in the f/8 to f/11 area. Most seem to be…

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From Adobe Newly supported camera models include: * Canon EOS 7D * Canon PowerShot G11 * Canon PowerShot S90 * Leaf Aptus II 5 * Mamiya DM22, DM28, DM33, DM56, M18, M22, M31 * Nikon D3s * Olympus E-P2 * Pentax K-x * Panasonic FZ38 * Sigma DP1s * Sony A500 * Sony A550 * Sony A850 Camera Raw 5.6 also provides a a fix for an issue affecting PowerPC customers using the final Camera Raw 5.5 and DNG Converter 5.5 updates on the Mac. The issue, introduced in the demosaic change to address sensors with unequal green response, has…

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