New Waterproof Soon
A sign a new waterproof camera is on its way is Canon Canada seems to be replaceing broken D10's with whole new cameras, instead of fixing them.
I've seen this once before with a midlevel PowerShot, and sure enough it was replaced shortly after.
There are lots of factors that probably go into these decisions, but cost of warehousing them is definitely a factor. A discontinued PowerShot is a hard sell for retailers outside of the G series.
Theres also perception issues and high administrative costs to just pricedrop a camera to get rid of them.
Entire 2010/2011 Season of House By Canon DSLR?
I received information that the makers of House plan to shoot the entire next season with the 5D Mark II and possibly the 7D.
However, this time they would be adapting PV & possibly PL lenses.
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When you say “shortly,” about how long was it? I’m taking a vacation in July, and was eying the D10 as a possible acquisition before then, but not if it’s not the latest and greatest, of course.
PL is a lens mounting system common to 35mm cinema cameras. PL just stands for ‘Positive Lock’ as opposed to screw on lenses.
One benefit would be to the focus pullers who have a hard job using still photography lenses to achieve repeatable focus pulls.
You can listen to a podcast with the DP of House, and learn a bit why he chose that camera. The story came first, then the camera, specifically for its ultra shallow DOF.
http://16x9cinema.com/digital-convergence-podcast/2010/4/30/digital-convergence-episode-15-gale-tattersall-cinematograph.html
I know this is off-topic, but I’m curious. Is anyone else having problems with Adorama’s new “beta” website? I like to window shop and have found their new website design to be a real mess performance-wise.
I’ve e-mailed them several times to ask them to either fix it or go back to the old one and just wondering if others are finding the same problems: Extremely slow search and “wishlist” function never works. I use Firefox, but have found the same problem no matter what browser I use.
Perhaps we can start a write-in campaign to encourage them to go back to the old interface.
Again, I apologize for going off-topic but I wanted to see if others are having the same frustration.
PV is Panavision mount.
This is used by Panavision for some of their rental lenses.
It’s similar to PL mount, but has a different depth so you can use a simple mechanical adaptor to put a PV mount lens on a Canon camera.
The PL depth doesn’t allow this, you actually have to remove the EOS mount (and the mirror) to fit a PL mount to a Canon camera.