Nice work, gave a thumbs up, commented and subscribed.

Chaitanya said:

Even I am confused it has been good 4-5 years since Samsung ia also advertising Dual Pixel AF on their topend phones and all white papers they published talk about same tech as Canon.

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Google's line of Pixel smartphones also advertises dual pixel both in the name and technology, but use sensor from Sony. Sony apparently also has a patent on split photodiodes. Given how prominent Sony sensors are in smartphones, there are probably many more out there.

I've never found any explanation how it can be that basically everybody can use DPAF, and yet only Canon does it in ILC.

A user on another forum that I’m on, posted that he received his GO II system on Thursday and has confirmed that the transmitters do record while transmitting. But you can only stop the recording by turning the transmitters OFF. When they are turned ON, they automatically start recording(if you enable the option with Rode’s computer app). And it’s just a continuous loop, meaning that when the memory is full, it begins overwriting the oldest portion of the recording. There are separate tracks created every time the transmitter is turned ON/OFF, but being a continuous loop recording system, you could lose your back-up or at least a portion there of, if not careful/mindful of how long it’s been on.

EOS 4 Life said:

I predict the A7 IV will have a 12 MP sensor and shoot 4K video up to 120 FPS.
There will also be six more Sony cameras with those exact specs.

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year right. i can see it being like 30 or 40 something mp.

"Sony has introduced bird AF in the a1. This is a nice feature. However, it feels like this mode is in beta. The bird AF in the Canon EOS R5 and R6 is miles ahead of the a1. The a1 will indeed detect a bird, and a tracking box will be placed around it. If you’re close enough, the Sony a1 will track the bird’s eye. However, the tracking is erratic and not very accurate. With the Canon EOS R5 and R6, the cameras find the bird, then the eye, and the tracking stays locked on the eye almost all the time."

telemaque said:

Well they responded, but it was the usual blabla...
Very polite answer, also very corporate "we are carefully listening our customer needs" bla bla.

However, they were polite enough to respond and I appreciated their effort.

I just hope at the coffee break they looked at my message and had some laughing session and agreed it was a bit sad to see the problem fixed by an unknown person when Canon experts did not... Obviously, this laughing session can not be officially expressed.

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Jeah, I guess thats about what happened ^^
With companies THAT big I always doubt that they actualy listen to single customers, even when we do come up with excellent ideas...

I understand the Super Takumar 85mm f/1.8 or the f/1.9 are very good. Unfortunately, that's one I have yet to own.

Antono Refa said:

I'm not that familiar with indiegogo. As far as I understand, the campaigner needs to present a paper describing the project, risks, etc, and starts a campaign. If he reaches the desired sum by the deadline, he gets the money, and... doesn't have to deliver anything, refund the money, or prove he actually did anything.

If so, I understand exactly why companies would go that way. They get paid in advance, and can abandon the project half way through, and pocket the other half as profit, all that without the bank or investors looking into it.

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I'm surprised they went with indegogo....when comparing it vs Kickstarter, It seems to be where things are that are a bit more sketchy...at least to my experience and views.

Joules said:

I'm not the Canon engineer designing the features, so what point is there in me speculating about these questions? If they can't figure out a way to make the technology usefull for certain users under certain circumstances, they won't implement. If they do implement it, there will still the options that we are used to for those users or circumstances where the new implementation isn't usefull. It will of course be interesting how they go about the design aspects and challenges like those you name for example in the finished product.

I just don't see how adding features and options (that you don't have to use) can take away from the art. You can of couse be of the opinion that the tool used to create it, or the understanding of this tool, are part of what makes the art valueable. I don't see it that way, but even if you do - there has to be an individual limit of how much you care. Is art lesser if AF is used? Is it lesser if a certain method for selection of AF point is used? Is it lesser if the user doesn't understand how AF is aquired on a technical level?

For me, art requires an idea and is the product of this idea being realized through some tool. Depending on how concrete this idea is, deep knowledge of the tool and how it affects the result may be required for the artist to create the desired art. But having a tool with more options should only enhance the chance of the artist having just what they need at their disposal and therefore being able to focus more on the art and less on the tool. Your view on this is certainly valid, I just don't understand it based on what you've written so far. Maybe you aren't even concerned with the point about art that slclick raised originally and I commented on in the post you quoted.

Or maybe I just didn't make it clear that I think dials and joysticks can't be replaced properly by this alternative control method for all users and use cases.

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You have raised some very valid points here, the biggest one being, IMHO, offering the feature is one some people might enjoy. Others, still, see no use in it. So, turn it on, turn it off. Since you are not saddled with having to employ eye controlled focus, I see nothing wrong with having another option at one's disposal. Enjoyed your post.

padam said:

I disagree with that statement wholeheartedly, it is only their tools which are different, but all companies are doing essentially the exact same things openly, whether people notice them or not, like Sony still using the same screen from several years ago, no matter if is their newest, most expensive camera.

Other instances:
Yes Sony now has three cameras with a 12 megapixel sensor and all of its features.
But it is 12MP so what you gain in video, you also loose with regards to stills. You need to buy at least one more additional model, and it's not like these are very cheap for 12MP.
They already had a very powerful 24MP camera with good video in the A9 (and later A9II) but they had to limit it with no picture profiles to make room for other models.

There are other models like the A7III A7RIV A1 and they all have various bits and pieces missing.
And no, I don't foresee an A7IV being as good as an A7SIII either. It will be a strong competitor to the R6, but no more than that.
The so-called hybrid camera always miss something, they do everything at a certain level, just not on the top level.

I am starting to think it is better to have one camera solely for video without having the struggle with ND like a BMPCC6K Pro or a Canon C50 and another solely one for stills and maybe some limited video capability is enough to work as a backup.

1080 120fps is coming on the R5 with a firmware update.
The main limitation other than skipping cropped RAW video options (I am sure the camera is capable of recording it) is the poor thermals.
On the one hand it was deliberate on the other it would have made the camera even more expensive so it would have angered buyers who are looking at it as a stills camera first, video second.

So it is not particularly hard for Canon to simply copy the FX3 concept and make a camera like that with the R5's 8K sensor, that would be much more of a departure from the R5 than the FX3 is from the A7SIII.
That is its biggest weakness and the reason why some reviewers are confused by it, it is nice, it just not that different overall.

Point is, cameras are no different than other electronics, sooner or later you will see something better.

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The 12 MP thing is like the 20 mp thing for the 1dx ii. it helps for the purpose of the camera based on current standards at the time. 12 gets you better low light and no line skipping for a camera people will buy for video. 20-ish mp is good for sports shooters that need high fps more than megapixels. The A7 no S is marketed for people that do both photo and video and has features that make it good for both. Yes it is the little things., I have seen Sony doing it lately with their cameras but my main focus is video. When it comes to video features they make weird omissions across the board no matter the price. the biggest example is the c200 with no 10 bit. Even after years of people demanding it, it had no 10 bit, but they give the prototype camera. the EOS R 10 bit output. I got the camera for 1$299 and it has 10 bit output but not a camera i paid $7500 for and peopel demanded it for years. Make it make sense.

oldageadventurer said:

Our self drive 2020 trip to Kruger National Park March - May was shorter than usual because of Covid. We had to return to JHB & remain there until overseas flights resumed after 6 weeks. We have no idea when our next trip will be possible

We have today just completed adding the photos from that trip to our website

2020 Photographic Safari - Africaraw

This year, was of course very eventful, with the SA Covid 19 Lockdown cutting our 3 month intended stay in the Kruger Park to 2 1/2 months. We started our trip in Berg en Dal & visited numerous camps ( Crocodile Bridge, Pretoriuskop, Skukuza, Lower Sabie, & Satara) as we slowly worked our way...

www.africaraw.com

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Nicely done!!

I note the animals are violating all of the mask mandates.

The monitor, I believe, is a Nile monitor; water monitors live in SE Asia. [However, I can't exclude the possibility that they might be called "water monitors" locally--which would make me wrong!]

(I saw a water monitor crossing the road once in SE Asia, and kick myself to this day for not having a camera with me. However, it would have been a "through the windshield" shot and those rarely work out well.)

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Canon Rumors Guy said:

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if they bring a nice 11mm lens with that in built led light ring that the macro lens has in the EF-M range then would be awesome but needs to be weather proof to be useable as so many great gimbals like the dji om 4 which are all great options. But weather proof is the only area all the gimbals fail in and if its just a lens then surely this could be why they have gone this route?

Blackmagic
URSA Mini Pro 12K​

What a beast of specs....

Every opinion is worth considering. I suspect that the expectations of some are extremely high and others not nearly so and as a result we read criticism or praise not knowing if it's realistic. It's easy for me to imagine that my 1DX2 is essentially useless unless I reflect on what it has given me over the last few years rather than what I missed. What is clear, whether people love or criticize the R5, it's speed of focus is so much faster than Canon predecessors and for me that's where most of my failings lie. I do have concern about the issues just raised because I have almost exclusively been a single spot point shooter and that's where the 1DX2 has shone relative to my previous 6D. Many criticized the 6D buttons/layout but I never found them to be very problematic but have found the 1DX2 joystick to be clumsy slow.

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@Gazwas Yeah I have seen footage where the R6 is warmer then the EOS R for skin tones, I think Potato Jet did a good video on that under controlled lighting. For me and my workflow color correction\matching has been less of an issue then trying to match the sharpness of the R5's HQ 4K when shooting on the R6.

I really like the R6 4K 60, it is noticeably sharper than the line skip 4K 60 on the R5. The R5's 24fps and 30fps HQ is amazing and if I am shooting something that I know I will not need multiple clips I use that most often.

For most of my stock footage I use the R5's 8K RAW, the flexibility of it is hard to beat and my clips are no more then 30 seconds (still takes my overclocked i7-8700K with dual Nvidia 1080 Ti's to its knees exporting it) but the ability to crop in and still be sharp is great. I can get 3 or 4 quality clips from a single take.

I do agree the scene is not the best, I had not intended to move the shot at all but a humming bird came by when I was setting up the R5 shots and I could not resist

I'm a low-light junky and 0.95 is awesome. I have several 0.95 lenses. Mitakon 35/0.95 II for aps-c Sony E. Mitakon 17/0.95 for MFT. Mitakon RF 50/0.95 . Also 2 Voigtlaenders at 0.95 but one of them is horrible wide open ( for nightsky ). . For fullframe I have a 35mm at 1.2 . Curious to see this 35mm /0.95 ... Manual focus. No IS. Hopefully declicked. That's the best of lenses.

Mikehit said:

If I remember rightly you said a couple of years ago 'within a year' that we would have a large-sensor phone the size of a brick. And about the same time we had another prediction of an apparently a new player breaking all the norms.

I know that (as you say) you are not responsible for delivering these products but it does call into question any claims you make about a 'new generation image capture system' coming 'sooner than you think'.

All this inside knowledge and so little actually delivered - give the number of prognostications I would expect at least one of them to be right.

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Actually, it seems it is Xiaomi and F150 Bison who have currently delivered the brick-like 20, 50 and 108 megapixel large sensor super-smartphones rather than Canon!




I do understand that Canon is working on greater than 1/2 inch sensor combination point-and-shoot brick-like camera with a very very large screen which has smartphone functionality! Canon is mostly a large optics corporation that has LITTLE EXPERTISE in smartphone technology. They would have to partner with someone else to produce the smartphone parts to integrate into the brick like cameras. They won't be partnering with Sony but I do see possibly Asus as a possible smartphone partner.

All I can do is report on in-the-wild prototypes (as per a series of two photos I posted years ago on this site!) where I have been informed that ONE of the photos was the correct functional Canon device and the other was a rendering from a fan-site. My prognostications are mostly from numerous East-Asian engineering sources and a few European electronics engineering ones. Products get started and trashed all the time by the largest companies. All I can do is report on what was seen or heard from 2nd, 3rd and even 4th parties.

There was one report here on this site where I made a statement that Apple was seriously taking a look at BUYING an entire patent portfolio via a major takeover deal of a listed set of hardware companies and that CANON was on the short-list as a take-over target. Apple CEO Tim Cook has cordial relationships with various CEO's AND politicians in Japan which would actually ALLOW Apple to be one of the ONLY foreign companies in the world to be allowed to purchase a major Japanese company such as Canon!

That takeover list was later confirmed to me by certain "insiders" and I should note that Apple is STILL on the hunt for a major patent portfolio and that Texas Instruments is STILL on the list for its DSP and CPU manufacturing IP. Citizen is also on it for it for their watch-centric micro-machine and micro-systems manufacturing prowess, as is eLux (a MicroLED manufacturing company originally part of Sharp Electronics in Yakima, Washington for their display tech).

Right now their LEADING at-of-the-top-of-the-take-over-target-list is "ON Semiconductor" which basically manufactures EVERYTHING that Apple could want in mobile systems including image sensors, automotive electronics, and CPU semiconductor manufacturing systems.


At the current 3x Earnings Multiple in the current financial environment, ON Semiconductor is worth a valuation of $17.6 Billion USD which is an EASY and QUICK BUY for Apple -- I am VERY VERY VERY SURPRISED that Tim Cook hasn't pulled the trigger yet to acquire ON Semiconductor. It's a total STEAL OF A PRICE for all of the patent / IP portfolio and manufacturing systems it has!

I also note that Apple HAS purchased manufacturing facilities and systems in Texas and possibly Nevada for what I understand is their production line of ultra large sensor 3D scanning cameras and pro-level DCI 8K displays/monitors that JUST HAPPEN to be full-blown Hollywood-quality DCI 8K video and still photo production systems in their own right.

This I know from contacts within various land-use / property registry sections of major cities/counties in BOTH Texas and Nevada. You look for recent purchases by numbered and blandly named companies and do a cross-reference with who is acting as the agent or law firm to find out which is Apple or another technology company! There is a WHOLE INDUSTRY of people who do nothing but look at land-registry and building permit records to find out who is building what, where and when!

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My prognostications SHOULD and MUST be taken with many grains of salt as I am reporting from MANY parties who all have their own interests at heart. There is ONLY ONE SYSTEM I can truly prognosticate on and that is only because it's sitting on my desk at the moment because I designed and coded the AUDIO/VIDEO/METADATA CODEC for it!

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PhotoRepairPro.com launches Warehouse Club Photo Restoration Service from Hollywood Photo Studio. Direct-to-Consumer Service Extends Big Box Price and Value with No Membership Required.
Last week, Costco closed all of their in-store photo centers, which made a lot of people unhappy, I had no idea how many people loved the services. I don’t live anywhere near a Costco.


One of the services offered was a photo restoration service. This service was outsourced exclusively to a company in Hollywood, California. Now with the closure of the Costco photo centers, the company has launched PhotoRepairPro.com to cover the needs of former Costco customers.
The bit of good news? The aggressive pricing is being maintained by the new service with a flat rate of $39.99 USD...

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Most of this was shot with the 1DX3 due to the rain. Not happy with my editing. Video is hard.

Well my patience ran out. BH is supposed to have some bodies end of Feb so I put an R5, RF 24-70/2.8, ef/rf adapter, RRS L plate...and a few other goodies on order today. Hopefully it will all show up relatively soon. I’ll be getting the rf 15-35 as soon as it is available.

Probably means my 5d4 will be back up status or sitting in a display case for nostalgic value. I won’t sell it or any of my ef mount glass....could be the last ones.

Richard Anthony said:

They already have one , the RP would be a superb little camera with the RF50 1.8

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The RP is already great with the RF35 1.8
Owning that lens is the only reason I'm if-ing and um-ing about buying this 50

Dmcavoy said:

The RF 18-45 is an odd one. Could be an interesting lens for video shooters, especially when using the cropped 4k etc on the R/RP.

But for a wide angle stills lens it's a total non starter. It's not quite a 17-40 replacement, nor it is an affordable UWA option. They really need to hurry up with a good cheap wide angle for RF. Something like an EFS 10-18 type of deal. £2k+ for the RF 15-35 is not an option for most!

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The EF-S10-18 is a cheap (with nice IQ) 16-29mm equivalent. So a FF 18-45 f/4-5.6 paired with RP for example is a cheap equivalent solution. It seems a strange range but it can be paired with 24-105 (the f/7.1 version) and/or 24-240. The overlapping helps to avoid constant lens swaps. Of course assuming it is a FF lens (and yes I agree, an odd one).

I don't think anyone doubts how gorgeous r5 video footage is. It depends on your professional workflow needs. But you can get unlimited recording with near 4k hq quality if you're willing to record in cropped mode.

I can't say for the SX270HS, but on the Powershot G1XIII it will shoot and the flash works without a card.