Oh god Canon's in trouble!

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neuroanatomist said:

One reason I like having the collar on my 100L macro is for a very easy switch from landscape to portrait orientation.

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...this

-pw

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Mt Spokane Photography said:

I've watched the number of patents awarded to Canon increase every year, and was wondering how a company manages them when they average over 10 a day. Just keeping track of them and which ones go into a product seems like a big job.

Obviously, they break them down into categories, but there is also crossover. And, the figures are for US patents, They have more Japanese patents than US patents.

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because of patent law changes in the united states, it actually makes more sense to get as many into the US patent system as possible.

the number of patent applications canon does is staggering.

as far as the patents and what goes into a camera, and what is defensible and what is unusable - there's lawyers on staff especially for that.

canon got nailed and is still fighting as well some legal battles by patent trolls - which aarefar more of a bane to innovation than getting a patent published would ever be.

Nininini said:

I pull stills from my 4k video all the time. I use Corel VideoStudio (yes, I don't have a $1000000 software, this is good enough for me)


pause video and pull frame

(it gets automatically moved to a folder and saved as a JPEG, you can save as uncompressed bitmap too, I personally don't care, I use JPEG)

8 megapixel JPEG image:

I have also tested if the quality is the same as taking a picture.

If I take a still in JPEG and change it to 8 megapixel, is it the same quality as pulling a frame from my cameras 4k video.

It is, there is no loss of quality. I don't pixel peep my pictures, but I don't notice any difference in quality.

Of course, you are limited to 8mp, but in turn you get..video, it's like shooting 8mp pictures at 30fps with an unlimited buffer.

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Thanks for sharing - it's good to have different perspectives on a subject. *But* I must say, a video frame will not have the same quality as a full raw still processed to taste. Until/unless raw video is enabled, even at the same dimensions, a video frame will have more compression, for instance. Depends entirely on what you want the shot for - a lower quality shot of the key moment in a sporting event for a website or newspaper is a far cry from a high end wildlife shot. Some users will find this less exciting than others, but it'll be good to have the option.

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Sabaki said:

I just charged two of my LP-E6Ns, one in my LP-E6 charger and one in my LP-E6N charger and both register as 100% in my 7Dii.

All my kit is from Canon SA, which is supplied by Canon Europe

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I don't understand why someone would buy a $7,000 camera and then put cheap n nasty third party batteries in it and expect those batteries to work has if they are good/Canon ones. I wouldn't even consider non-Canon batteries in my camera

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I would point you at the last line of my previous post:
"P.S. I have had 4 battery packs fail on me = ALL were Canon originals never a 3rd party one, you won't catch me buying Canon batteries unless they come included with the camera!"

If you are only happy to use OEM batteries that is your decision but don't get the idea that they are always better as they are frequently worse and always far more expensive!

OCEANSPRINCE said:

what is your suggestion? to avoid sigma?

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Not at all. Just don't expect in-camera settings that affect JPG output to always be correct.

Hello everyone. In response to some requests to take all of these lenses (Canon EF 35mm f/1.4L II, Canon EF 35mm f/2 IS, Sigma 35mm f/1.4 ART, and the Tamron 45mm f/1.8 VC pinch hitting for the 35mm f/1.8 VC) head to head, I've been doing a series of direct comparisons in a number of categories, including resolution/image quality, flare resistance, autofocus performance, and bokeh. The last video isn't live yet, but is in production at the moment. Most of these are in video format, but I've put together a docking page for it all along with some of the review image samples for you to draw conclusions from yourself.

Here's the landing page for the 35mm Shootout!: http://bit.ly/1ZqA4yM

I hope this helps some of you in your process to choose the right 35mm lens for you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2b8mjhLsx8

Instinctively I want to get a 6D2, an affordable and well rounded Full Frame body, but really if the 80D gets higher resolution with good AF and a nice compact body, that's more up my alley. I want Full Frame, but not with all the extra bulk.

And then we have the High End EOS-M to throw a monkey wrench in things. What kind of features are they actually willing to put on a mirrorless body?

Re: 35 L II, loose front end??

jd7 said:

Just for interest, maybe the following para in the LensRentals teardown (http://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2015/12/canon-35mm-f1-4-mk-ii-teardown) is relevant?

And when the screw was removed, we found that each hole contained a brass reinforcing spacer with a spring around it. So basically each of the 6 screws passes through the brass spacer and screws into the front barrel, with a spring maintaining tension. This is an expensive way to do things and obviously serves a purpose. It may be to maintain even tension on the focusing ring (which is right below the filter barrel), to provide a more even stress distribution, or probably is for something else entirely. But just because I don't know what it's for doesn't mean I can't appreciate the careful attention to detail taken here


Viggo, you do seem to have been punished very harshly by the camera gods - problems with your 1Dx and Sigma Art lenses. Hopefully, though, there is no issue with your 35L II.

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Yeah, I've been very close to just give up everything photo related. Perhaps go Leica which I have used some and to manual focus a Leica is too easy, at least when nothing moves. But I love my Canon gear, when it works it's impossible to fail, but the line between that and setting it all on fire is wafer thin ...

Nice to know the 35 is okay though, and It seems okay on the 6d, but that camera is just too limiting to me.

way ahead of you

tcmatthews said:

neuroanatomist said:

Well, Canon sure missed the boat by not making big dSLR announcements at CES. After all, cameras and imaging are a huge part of the conference - that's immediately obvious from looking at the site naviagtion...

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They sure did miss the boat they should release a wearable 1Dx.

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Yep, looks like Nikon even beat them on that: http://www.gizmag.com/halloween-camera-costume/20331/pictures

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brianftpc said:

After seeing the Nikon D5 only allowing 3 minutes of 4K probably bc of heating issues Im left to wonder why dont these bodies have some sort of rubber stopper just like the ones that cover the connecters that you can just remove while shooting in 4K to let the heat escape these weather sealed cameras. The only catch is that you dont use it in a possibly hardware compromising environment...like outside in the rain when shooting 4K. Seems like an easy fix for a big problem like heat. You can even have a mode that activates tiny fans that you select when you have the stopper removed.

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4k doesn't have to mean enormous heat, it all boils down to the voltages used and capacitances on the chip. Additionally adding a thermal path from the sensor to the bottom of the body would allow for an external heat sink.. even it it doubles as a mounting arm in a video rig. I can see camera makers would normally prefer to give fixed promises of performance, point is I think a lot of people would be happy to take the "video length dependant of external heatsink", we'd then see a raft of heat dissipating video gimbals and the like.

I've often wondered why canon didn't add in a thermal bridge to the base and a chip temperature readout on a port for their 20Da and 60Da cameras, as this would allow for setpoint cooling which would have been a huge bonus. However it would need doing properly otherwise you end up in all sorts of frosting problems.. external heatsinks to keep sensors close to ambient temperature however would be relatively low risk.

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agreed,

if properly set up inside the camera, you could dump a lot of heat out of the tripod mount onto an external heat sink....

I'm in your camp. I've done loads of shoots on the 5DSR and haven't yet produced a single instance of moire. Like you, I do a lot of portrait work with all sorts of different clothing. For all the talk about this camera and moire, I ain't seen any yet on mine ;D

Yours is the first shot I've seen from a regular user that generated it, but LR has a nice moire tool brush to knock it out.

When this camera was announced and all the talk started about no LPF, I really didn't understand. If the 36MP D810 didn't seem to be a big problem, surely the additional resolving power of 50MP would be even less. So far, I've been right.

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I have used the 5DSr for countless wedding and portrait shoots. I have, to my knowledge, never seen an issue with morie. Actually I thought it would never be an issue. Well I finally found a shot that had plenty and man is it ugly. It is strange that it happened in this particular shot and not countless others with more pattern. BTW this is a very tight crop of a much larger image.

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Re: Image Sensor & Lens Patents from Canon

Came on here to look for info on latest patents and informative discussion. Found hilarious meme's of Jean Luc instead. Was not disappointed! Hahaha! Love it! ;D

dcm said:

Nice feature that was possible when they separated the drive mode (continuous) from delay/remote mode. Appears to follow the logic for bulb mode on other bodies. The switch on the back of the remote allows for immediate or 2 second delay triggered from the remote when in continuous mode. The original M, like my 6D and some other bodies I'm familiar with combine the continuous/delay/remote on a single control so you can't mix them. I'm not sure on other bodies. Maybe we will see this on new bodies in the future.

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I've always assumed the IR remote would trigger only one shot like on other canon bodies, so I never bothered to try. Pretty happy to stumble upon this neat feature. This, along with face detection, will make family pictures much easier. Last year on numerous occasions I wanted to connect the m3 to my phone. No matter how quick I was, it's gotta take at least a minute to set up the wifi. Now with this IR remote, I can do it in a fingersnap.

noncho said:

Come on, we already have slow zooms...
What about some nice 50 2.0, 85 2.0, 135 2.8 and 250 4.0 DO telephoto primes?

Currently I'm using M less (mostly with 11-22 and 22) and with no interesting lenses I'm almost ready to sell.

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Our set-up includes an M1 that has a 22 attached to it, and an M2 that has the 11-22 attached to it.

I am NOT ready to sell.

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The only reason guys like Metabones are in business are because everyone wants Canon glass on their Alpha 7s for video lol.

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This is definitely true. And as someone who will probably stick with Canon for the stills side of things, I'm going for the $99 Fotodiox adapters to work those lenses into the Sony/Panasonic video environments. Though Metabones makes nice enough adapters that they are worth the price.

Canon is probably smart to take the strategy that they have, which is that they can make money in the full-frame world without committing to video. But, that's gonna bite them 3-5 years down the line when everyone is making the compromise that I am now decides "hey, you know what, Sony and Sigma now have enough lenses that I can transition".

Or worse...people will realize Canon FD lenses are an incredible value on every camera that isnt Canon EOS. They basically build the perfect, cheap, lens line for Sony A7 cine work

The Problem is how the 7d2 came and when it did it did not bring too much tomorrow into today. After 5 years the 7D2 comes with less modern feature set (wifi,touch and tilt screen), same sensor with barely anything better sensor performance over the camera that has been using that sensor for two years that cost almost half the price of the 7d2, mild spec bump in fps, mild spec bump in buffer size, video recording that matches an iPhone from a year before, incredible processing and noise reduction in software that anyone can do with any old program in post at the cost of battery life, insane weather sealing that 99% of the customers will never need and at the cost of more usable features, more focus points spread out wider which is great until you figure out the number of focus points is like the mp war that has been going on, a new flicky knob on the back, single focus point use of f8 autofocus which is something that was useful more years back before we had three great optioned 600mm 6.3 lens so today not much need to use a teleconverter on a 5.6 lens as it slows it all down anyway. all this at the cost of $1700 release, $1500 today and already there have been printer bundle pricing putting it down to a sad $1000.


Problem was Canon made it too heavy duty at the cost of features they should of put in making the camera more future proof. Nikon sadly put way more forward thinking into the D500 with a spec list that blows away the 7D2 with features people demand today and will use tomorrow at only $500 more than todays outdatedish 7d2.

Canon needs to come with the 7d3 with the feature set the 7d2 should of had, esp with the 80D being released that will make the 7d2 even look worse.

There are way too many fanboys of the 7D, when the 70D came out these people rammed it into the forum ground yet that release was more innovative than the 7d2 from the 7d1. They did all the smack talking on the 70D because they either felt insecure their old 7D was well...old or they been waiting forever for their imagined golden unicorn 7d2 and had some weird idea nothing could beat their 7d but only a 7d2.

I am not saying the 7d2 is a bad camera, it is a tool like any other body. In comparison to what this market segment actually uses, needs, and wants it really is in a tough spot. The 70D and even for a few bucks more the D750 bite at the segment in which the 7d2 is in too much and this will get only worse with the 80D coming up closer to it.

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NorbR said:

dilbert said:

Yup. I'm trying to find some good URLs of D4s/1DX at high ISO and found this:
http://www.juzaphoto.com/article.php?l=en&article=113

Based on that, I'd give the D5 at least a 2 stop, if not more, improvement.

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So now we're comparing images converted from RAW without any noise reduction to screenshots of in-camera JPEGs, with unknown noise reduction, on the camera rear screen?

Seriously?

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It seems you missed my last sentence that acknowledges the limitations of what's been presented.

Looks good but we have to wait and see the real results.

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I'm sorry, but these look worse than what I get with my 7DII at 3200.

Sorry to hear about the loss. At less than $400 a year, it just makes sense when you have nice gear and doing business.

Did you expose to the right? Maybe instructor's 7DII was set for this (slight overexposure for example) so the noise would seem less.

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After all, what is the measure in terms of noise / quality per stop or to determine a max native ISO? A manufacturer can say anything they want.

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Native ISO is achieved by analog amplification prior to digitization. Expanded ISOs are digitally pushed (or pulled) after digitization. As you state, that says nothing about noise or IQ.

Although my response won't help your current situation, it may help in the future. Leakage is one of the many reasons to move to Ni-MH rechargeable batteries. Standard (lead-acid) batteries leak. In my personal experience, I have found Energizer batteries to be particularly susceptible to leakage, while Duracells are least likely. If a purchased device comes with a battery brand that I am not familiar with, it gets tossed in the trash immediately. I will not use standard batteries in any device where the batteries will be installed for more than six months. I have been using Ni-MH batteries for over eight years and have never had any leakage whatsoever from any of them. I recommend Eneloops, but there are quite a few brands out there.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00JHKSN5I?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_search_detailpage