First Unboxing This is the first unboxed pic we’ve received of the 7D. This camera is from Henry’s in downtown Toronto. Thanks Arsen I won’t be posting any more of these. Don’t forget the Canon announcement on the 29th. It doesn’t look to be EOS related, but Canon seems to think it’s important nonetheless. Blurrycam! I’ve only received sightings from one person in Toronto. Anyone else seen the 7D out and about? I’ll have one in my hands Tuesday or Wednesday. thanks Andrew cr
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In Stock Vistek in Toronto apparently received their first shipment of 7D’s today. They won’t be selling them until tomorrow I’ve been told. Thanks Dan UPDATE I have a couple of denials in regards to the camera being available today at Aden and Downtown Camera in Toronto. I have had friends check Canon’s ordering site and the camera has yet to be allocated to a few stores. It’s not much yet I have word that a few stores in Toronto will have them tomorrow. Two of them being Downtown Camera and Aden Camera. There is reports of a third unnamed…
For now Jessops in the UK has 7D’s in stock. http://www.jessops.com/online.store/c…. thanks Gary cr
New Rebel coming From a new source. “The Canon 1500D/T1 will be announced soon -intended for sale during the Christmas season. The announcement is in fact very close” Specs * Same 12MP sensor as 450D/XSi * Digic 4 * Movie mode added: up to HD 1080, only 1 frame rate option at that size, 30fps * Fixed LCD 460K dots * No significant changes in size, weight or price. Price will of course be close to 1000D’s MSRP at launch. cr
From DPR The folks at DPR have posted the first of many G11 sample galleries. As with the S90, they look good to me. Read More: http://www.dpreview.com/news/0909/09092402canong11gallery.asp cr
7D Next Week around the globe According to Rob Galbraith, sources and countless emails. The 7D should be shipping to dealers next week in the US and Canada. 7D Features & EOS Just an interesting note. The Dutch EOSZine (Canon’s own monthly journal, www.eoszine.nl) states in its 7D preview (page 12/13) that if the 7D is too expensive “you’ll find that all mentioned innovations will be applied in all EOS models in a year time” (rough translation). thanks Dutch Samyang 35 f/1.2 for EF We should be seeing a new fast prime from Samyang early next year. Canon will receive…
Some food for thought The following information is from one of my regular contributors. Read, enjoy and discuss. 5D2, 7D and 1D4 Digic IV was not designed as a video processing chip, hence it cannot downscale multi Megapixel images in real-time at a frame rate needed for video. The fastest camera ever released by the company is the 7D and it can only down sample by pixel binning close to ten 18MP images to any smaller size a second. Current implementation skips vertical and horizontal lines then averages pixel values. Digic V has a new on die area for video…
You can visit DPR for a gallery of sample images from the upcoming PowerShot S90. Read More: http://www.dpreview.com/news/0909/09091802canons90gallery.asp Looks like a solid camera to me on the image quality side. I have read some folks that think it’s a bit too “plasticy”. We’ll see when we get our grubby hands on it. cr
From Redusers “A little birdy just whispered something pretty remarkable into my ear. I cannot verify this AT ALL but rumor has it that Canon may be prepping to unveil a RAW or sRAW recording module for the 5D2, 7D, etc, which would record possibly via the CF card slot. Apparently they are being tested and used now. Will post more details later if I get any. Don’t know about framerates or RAW vs sRAW. And again, this is totally unconfirmed, from a single “high-placed” source.” Read More: http://reduser.net/forum/….. thanks Tom cr
Far Fetched Stuff? I received many rumors that never appear on this site, I try to filter them a bit. However, times are slow right now. So here are a few I’ve received over the last month or so. This post really is for entertainment value…….. for now. :) EF f/2 Zoom Canon is working on f/2 zoom to add to the lineup. Focal range of 24-60. EOS 3D We’ll see a 3D in the spring of 2010. It’ll basically be a 7D with a full frame sensor. Full Line of EF-S Primes Canon will release a full line of…