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koenkooi · Oct 15, 2020

SaP34US said:
What all spec the differances between m50 & m50 II and does anyone know how good the autofocus in 4k actually is or isn't?

It seems to be the exact same sensor, which in the M50 was the limiting factor. So I expect no DPAF in 4k

EOS 4 Life · Oct 14, 2020

I guess these are the box cameras we were hearing about.
Canon is releasing so many cameras that the rumors get jumbled together

YuengLinger · Oct 14, 2020

privatebydesign said:
It is absolutely possible to do serious damage to your camera with the sun. Though generally it takes a telephoto lens to do it.

Rental Camera Gear Destroyed by the Solar Eclipse of 2017

We recently had quite a spectacle in the United States, with a Solar Eclipse reaching totality throughout a large portion of the United States. Being that this was the first solar eclipse passing through the Continental US since 1979, excitement ran wild on capturing this natural event using the...

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Thanks, PBD. I read this when originally published, but it didn't register because I'm not planning to ever photograph an eclipse. However, now it has me thinking! Sure, composing in Live View while photographing a sunset.

And, as mentioned above, shooting backlit and letting the sun edge into the frame. Of course I always avoided that with an OVF because of the dangers to eyes, but with my R I began to get more careless about it, thinking my eyes were protected from that morning or afternoon sun because I'm just looking at an EVF. And somehow I forgot about the danger to the sensor and the lens. Just didn't think about it. Usually I was only doing it for a few seconds at a time, but still, if only a few pixels are damaged each time, then it accumulates.

Mostly I do it with a prime lens from 35mm to 85mm, up to about f/2.2...I don't do if often. (Heck, with the lockdowns and masks, not much people stuff at all this year.) So far I haven't seen any problem with my R, but I've never gone looking for hot/stuck/dead pixels. Now I don't want to look!

SecureGSM · Oct 14, 2020

magarity said:
I thought it obvious I was making up numbers - the point being that increasing frame rate requires increasing processing from the chips supporting the sensor. Is that incorrect?

partially correct. My point is thought that throughput has increased to the point where 100Mp sensor at 9 FPS is no longer an issue. In your original post you said: 20Mp tech in camera is like 3,.5Ghz in computers.

Has Canon developed a new 21mp sensor for the Canon EOS R system? [CR1]

Honestly there really isn’t anything wrong with 20PM cameras. Most of my work is for web-based clients, I’m sure this also applies to many photographers. Yes, 45mp is nice for cropping it etc and I get this! Also, if you need to print big, but if not we all know there are advantages of a lower...

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I explained that 20Mp is no longer a limitation from a throughput point of view.

larger files in a High Megapixel camera can be an issue when too many and and too large.

SaP34US · Oct 14, 2020

Is the video autofocus worse then photo autofocus?

nonfacciofoto · Oct 14, 2020

I do not know if it has already been discussed but i found that to achieve maximum dynamic range of 8k raw you need to keep Clog ON or you will lose DR in the Highlights
I made a little test to show the differences:

SteveC · Oct 14, 2020

geffy said:
I think the only people that will upgrade from the mark 1 will be those with an insurance claim

Ironically, that's how I moved from a Rebel T3 to a Rebel T6i...though I did have to kick in another $150.

BeenThere · Oct 14, 2020

$299. at B&H. Zooms to 400mm optical, 800mm digital. 1080 30fps video. 12 Mpixel stills.

russellm · Oct 14, 2020

Congrats. Maybe that means Bestbuy and other retailers will get them a little earlier than Oct 21st

stevelee · Oct 13, 2020

One or more of the new iPhone models announced today have a shifting sensor on one camera.

There is also a kind of camera raw option that preserves output from different cameras. Ten-bit video will be on some phones.

canonmike · Oct 13, 2020

HarryFilm said:
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They've already given and sold multiple Canon 5D Mk2's and Canon 5D mk3's to office and warehouse staff. They bought 150 of them back in the day for use onboard UAVs and submersibles and on cars/boats during autonomous mobility systems testing. The Canon 1Dxmk2's and C700 GS's are the ones I REALLY HAVE MY EYE ON!

It takes about 3 to 5 years to write them down depreciation-wise on the accounting books until, essentially for taxation/valuation purposes, they become worth ZERO on the company's books. Once that happens, they put a purchase order schedule in to buy other cameras when they come out (i.e. Sony Venices, Canon C700 FF, Alexa LF's, 1Dx3 Mk3's, Canon R5's, Sony A7s3's etc) and the others get sold/given to staff depending upon if its consumer vs pro cameras.

The 5D mk2's are considered consumer grade so they are GIVEN to staff with one 50mm or 35mm prime lens. The 5D Mk3's and Sony A7s2's are sold for dimes on the dollar to staff (i.e. $150 or less with lenses extra) and the Canon C700 GS I will hopefully be getting for maybe a few thousand WITH the cinema lenses since they are NOT full frame (i.e. S-35) and we are only buying full frame or larger from now on. The Medium Format Global Shutter combine Stills/Video cameras were built in-house and use custom lenses but will be sent onwards to the BIG BOY MEDIA COMPANY once they FINALLY DECIDE to start selling them to the public!

I am eagerly awaiting the 1DxMk2's and the C700 GS's which are the ones I really want! I need to wait another 1.5 to 2 years though for their full write-down! But because of the Cinema Quality of the video-centric lenses, I won't be complaining too much !!! In the mean time, so long I pay the full replacement cost insurance fees and any deductibles and have a video production-specific 3rd party liability insurance plan, I am good to go for checking almost any lens and camera out of inventory for personal use!

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Well, Harry, all I can then say is that "You are one lucky duck".

Petrus · Oct 13, 2020

Nikon is not Canon. This site is Canonrumors...

Ozarker · Oct 13, 2020

tcphoto said:
I think that a C Stand or heavier stand would be more stable. I've used the stand portion of my Super Boom with set weights and 150cm Elinchrom Indirect with little issues outdoors. Back in my assisting days, we used the Octabank and C Stand combo with me as a set weight and loading Hasselblad backs on location...good times!

Yes! C-stand has made things much better.

ladigitaltech · Oct 13, 2020

Hi group, I shoot corporate photography and video, I currently use the 80d with EF lenses but I own a backup set of S lenses for shooting video, (hate the stepper sound in my audio). Wondering if anyone knows if the RF lenses include the S lens nano technology for silent video during auto-focus. On a side note does anyone know if the S lenses would require the EF-RF adapter. Sorry I haven't been keeping up on the tech. side.... Best David

filmmakerken · Oct 13, 2020

Red announced a 6K Komodo with (manual) RF lens mount today.

VegasCameraGuy · Oct 13, 2020

I've never noticed a whine on my Canon R5 charger or the one from my Canon 80D (same charger).

VegasCameraGuy · Oct 13, 2020

zim said:
My first canon was an F1 if i could even remotely afford this my last canon would be an R1

LOL I've still got my motor drive F1.

Methodical · Oct 12, 2020

YuengLinger said:
You mean by their own employees? Wouldn't today's tracking make it easy to see where the package disappeared, to narrow down the suspects to a very small number?

Collusion...

funkboy · Oct 12, 2020

Jasonmc89 said:
How much does one of those cost?

It depends on the configuration. "Fugaku" is the $US1.2B flagship machine at RIKEN, which has ~160,000 nodes.
Their two-node FX700 rack server costs about $US40K (which you'll eventually be able to buy from Penguin Computing).

From the article it appears that Canon bought a single 650tflop FX1000 rack, which has 192 nodes.
So if you ballpark $20K per node then you're looking at ~$US3.8 million.

Given that Canon is the flagship commercial customer for FX1000, you can bet they didn't pay that much for it.
However they probably paid at least 1/3 again the purchase price for setup & maintenance services. Supercomputer clusters are not exactly turnkey commodity IT devices (although Fujitsu is angling to make the "little" FX700 pretty easy to get up & running).

To put things into perspective, for pure CPU compute (talking apples to apples, not GPUs here), a cluster of amd64 dual-EPYC 7742 traditional 1u servers crams about 280tflops into a similar rack, so Fujitsu's A64FX has almost 2.5x the compute density of the best amd64 CPUs you can get your hands on at the moment.

stevelee · Oct 11, 2020

I used red, orange, and yellow filters with film. Maybe I had more than one strength of the yellow. Of course I had to make the filter decision before I shot the pictures.

I like shooting Raw and in effect choosing my color filters after the fact.

Maximilian · Oct 11, 2020

Demondrive said:
Its happening only at 1/8000 ...
shooting into direct sunlight is not ideal!

Thanks for that Info.
I suppose you‘re right with the sunlight. But of you don‘t recognize it now there seems to be no damage.
At least keep an eye on it.
But I‘d still call Canon to tell and ask them.

Fischer · Oct 11, 2020

RobbieHat said:
I would rather not add that much glass between my native lens and sensor. Introduces all sorts of potential issues around loss of resolution, weather sealing, stress points, size, weight, etc. I get the point that it can be done, but I would rather have a native longer focal length lens that is lighter and faster and then consider what extenders I want to put on it to enhance reach at the requisite loss of speed and resolution.

Bob

You miss the point. More MPIX lets you forgo the extra 100mm FL from the 300 to 400 f/2.8. No need for extra glass.

If you also get the extenders to supplement your high MPIX camera with the 300mm f/2.8 you are far ahead in options compared to shooting with a lower MPIX camera and a 400mm lens - and with more money in your pocket to boot!

AlanF · Oct 11, 2020

Joules said:
It was just a good example that came to my mind to illustrate the point. Of course it is understandable why the term is used.

But similarly, with television meaning something like vision over a distance and telecommunications meaning something like communicating over a distance, I really don't see any issue in the fact that Tele-photo has become a term used to mean something that allows photographing things in the distance, despite having a scientific definition that sais something else.

I agree with you. The technical definition of a telephoto lens is one whose physical length is shorter than its optical length. But, the intuitive meaning based on our common experience with language is a lens that is used to see far off objects or at a distance - the classical Greek "tele" means "far off", or "at a distance". Languages evolve to become simplified so the largest number understand words. I hate jargon and far prefer words or phrases that clearly describe matters.

AlanF · Oct 10, 2020

Mt Spokane Photography said:
I have a older 2X II TC for my EF lenses. It seldom gets used. I did not upgrade it to the version III on purpose, it stacks with my 1.4X TC III while the newer version will not stack. I've only used them stacked to play with the AF capabilities of my R. I might see what happens with AF on my R5 out of curiosity. I doubt if the end photo would be better than cropping but I might see more details as I'm composing. In any event, its interesting to experiment. I'm not expecting to get a RF extender in the near future. I haven't even tried my 100-400 with a 1.4X extender on my R5 yet. I expect it to work just as Alan has shown.

The stacked 1.4x2xTCs should work. As I have posted previously, a 3x Kenco TC, which was sold for only manual use with DSLRs, focusses well on my 100-400mm II and R5. I really am impressed with what Canon has done with the R5 AF.

YuengLinger · Oct 9, 2020

Not a local shop within a thousand miles. I won't randomly pick one of the few still standing. Sad but true.

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