In this patent application (2024-053967) Canon is looking to improve the ability of the cameras to calibrate the eye control focus with the photographer. The eye control focus is featured on older EOS film cameras and more notably, the Canon EOS R3. Eye Control AF differs from Eye AF, as Eye Control AF moves the

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Canon has released firmware updates to 5 RF mount telephoto lenses. Available Updates Firmware Changes Via: asobinet

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CIPA has reported its data for the first two months of the year, and so far the signs are extremely positive – even for DSLRs. Yes, I said that – DSLRs, the camera system that refuses to die. Overall for the first two months of the year, Japanese camera manufacturers have shipped 102% more DSLRs

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In this patent application (2024-052503) Canon discusses replacing the gel filter at the back of a dual fisheye lens with something a little more robust and user-friendly. As you may know, the Canon RF 5.2mm f/2.8 L Dual Fisheye uses a rear gel filter, but that can be problematic, and you must continually remove the

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In this patent application (2024-052503), Canon is looking at providing autofocus for dual lenses, such as the Canon RF5.2mm f/2.8L Dual Fisheye lens. The current dual fisheye lens is manual focus only, so this would be a step in the right direction. From Canon; To provide a lens device that is equipped with an autofocus

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I think ants are so common and play a very important role in nature that they deserve a dedicated thread here.
I didn't want to put them to "assorted insects".
I was fascinated by ants from my childhood on, and I am still.
To be honest, I only like them when they stay outside my house. And I can remember the day when a wedding flight of ants took place in my grandma's sleeping room, because they took the wrong way out of the wall, where they were living in.
And I still get scared when I think of the horror film Phase IV.
But here let's show some photos of their fascinating life and how they can work together.

Here are some photos of formica rufa , the red wood ant.

So I have only had my R5 for about a month or so and have ravenously been ‘absorbing‘ what I can thru both the manual, and online…

The most interesting thing i found was remapping the exposure lock to be the Autofocus.

So i tried it. However, after MUCH searching, i could never find a solution that would allow the individual focus modes to function as they should. When in the default setting, they do… (Obviously!). My problem came about when i wanted to use the Spot setting, or in fact any other… the only autofocus that appeared to be enabled was the Face Tracking one (disabled eye detection as well). No matter what mode i chose, the mass of green boxes flooded th screen overriding wher i placed my spot….

So, it is back to the default. Yes, perhaps i could swallow my ire and ‘accept‘ what the R5 is doing, but id it is basing its metering on the AF zone it is picking, I am out of luck.

I really don’t know how everyone is getting this to be viable.

Any clarification would be much appreciated! Thanks All!

MELVILLE, NY, April 10, 2024 – Canon U.S.A., a leader in digital imaging solutions, is proud to announce its participation in the 2024 NAB Conference, where it will showcase its latest developments and solutions, including a new next-gen broadcast lens. Throughout its expanded booth (#C3825), Canon will offer attendees new opportunities to explore the future of

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Canon continues to release video creator kits for various cameras, today Canon has launched the Canon EOS R50 Video Creator Kit. Canon EOS R50 Video Creator Kit Designed for vloggers, videographers, and content creators, the EOS R50 Video Creator Kit from Canon bundles the lightweight EOS R50 mirrorless camera with an RF-S 10-18mm f/4.5-6.3 IS STM lens and an

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MELVILLE, N.Y., April 9, 2024 — Camera operators can capture beautiful content with the new broadcast lens announced today by Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging solutions. The CJ27ex7.3B, Canon’s first 2/3” portable lens with a class leading 27x optical zoom, expands and strengthens the company’s extensive broadcast lens lineup. The new lens, with

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Here are a few photos of the LAST Delta IV Heavy launch, that took off right on time this afternoon a 12:53 PM at Cape Canaveral. I was about 8.5 miles away from the launch pad, SLC-37B. The end of an era for this mighty rocket system.

EOS 90D / Tv @1/3200 / f/10.0 / Partial / RAW / ISO 800
EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM / MF and @400mm
MAVEN CPL filter used
Images processed with DxO Photolab 7 Elite

I owned one of these; replaced it with an S95.

I 'shot' some great concerts with the (still functioning) S95.

I would pay a premium for a 2024 version of the S95; tiny, light, responsive and well-specced always works for me.

I imagine some others reading this would as well.

M6MkII + 70-300 II IS (adapted) on a monopod



Don't let anybody tell you otherwise--as far as solar eclipses are concerned, totality is where it's at!

DJI, the global leader in civilian drones and creative camera technology, today introduces three groundbreaking products that revolutionize the filmmaking and content creation landscape. The DJI RS 4, a lightweight commercial stabilizer, redefines vertical shooting with enhanced efficiency and stabilization performance, empowering solo cinematographers to capture grand scenes effortlessly. The DJI RS 4 Pro flagship

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The announcements most of the readership of this site are looking forward to are coming up quickly. We just wanted to recap what is coming and what we know at this point and time. Canon has become really good at keeping things quiet, but that doesn’t last forever. Registered Cameras Canon EOS R5 Mark II

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Hello, I can't seem to figure out how to set up the R5 to do auto exposure bracketing but in a way that it adjusts the ISO for each bracketed shot instead of adjusting the shutter speed. I want to lock down shutter speed and aperture to certain settings, and have the camera vary the ISO when using auto exposure bracketing. This post seems to allude that it's possible, but I cannot figure out how. Is it possible? Thanks.

The Canon RF 35mm f/1.4L USM has been our unicorn of lenses, it’s probably the most anticipated lens announcement in a long time from Canon. We reported last month that we’d finally get an official announcement this month or perhaps by mid-May, but you will have it mounted to your camera in the next couple

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Now this is from a Washington State (i.e. Home of Microsoft!) rumour source where Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has FORMALLY made an outreach to Sony CEO Kenichiro Yoshida about Microsoft and Sony MERGING into some sort of Electronics super-company. One of the X-Box OR Playstation divisions WILL have to be divested due to U.S. Anti-Trust Issues but Microsoft is one of the FEW American companies that would be politically allowed to invest or merge with such a Japanese technology giant as Sony! BOTH headquarters in Redmond, Washington and Minato City, Japan will be retained but Microsoft and Sony will be exchanging MASSIVE amounts of patents, hardware systems and software technology to better compete against the likeness of Apple, Panasonic, LG, Samsung and Huawei.

Microsoft wants to leverage Windows OS software into consumer gaming AND mobile electronics hardware including upcoming Smartphones and Smartwatches and Sony wants access Microsoft's Azure Cloud technology to create a massive media consumption powerhouse (Sony owns Columbia Pictures and a number of other consumer media properties!) that will be efficiently managed and served via Microsoft Azure Cloud Technology. Current rumour has it that XBox will be spun off out to Comcast (i.e. Universal Pictures and Home Media) and Sony Playstation will be kept in-house with Microsoft's recent Blizzard acquisition and Sony's Game development divisions MERGING to form a super-powerhouse of video game production.

The second part of this rumour has Microsoft leveraging Sony xPeria smartphones and tablet technology into Microsoft Surface Phones and Surface Tablets and desktop computers to form a CREDIBLE COMPETITOR to Apple and Samsung on the mobile and desktop marketplace and one way to compete is by offering SUPERIOR image sensor technology and superior CPU processing technology which will leverage Microsoft RECENT licensing and EXTENSION of ARM mobile CPU technology to create VIABLE competitors to Qualcomm Snapdragon CPU chips and Apple M-series mobile processors! Microsoft also wants Sony image sensor and microdisplay products to create cheaper but higher resolution versions of the Microsoft Hololens technology to offer a real competitor to Apple's Vision Pro AR/VR glasses!

This was a TOTAL WAY-IN-LEFT-FIELD RUMOUR which I have pontificated about in the past BUT have just tonight received major notice from a local Washington State "insider source"!

I have heard no other confirmations from other 3rd party sources and this discussion was to have taken place THIS PAST WEEKEND and is just now being bandied about via various grapevines! I shall update you all as I get further into the week!

For now, YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST!

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Another tasty tidbit from my European AND Singapore Electronics Engineering Sources is about a recent executive shakeup at Sony headquarters after Apple threatened to take their imaging sensor business to ON Semiconductor OR Canon! Sony executives are VERY VERY CONCERNED that they could lose significant imaging chip business from Apple so they are now extending and exploring NEW partners to help reduce costs and Sony has just recently, during the month of March 2024, extended an outreach to Sigma about purchasing or licencing the Foveon Vertically Stacked RGB Sensor technology which will then be presented to Apple as an alternative Sony-branded high resolution imager for iPhones and iPads!

A Foveon Sensor has each RGB photosite vertically stacked upon each other allowing for VERY HIGH RESOLUTIONS to be given for the same given sensor size.

Instead of 3 or 4 separate photosites for each RGB Pixel, each photosite has all 3 colours stacked vertically on top of each other saving space AND increasing overall colour fidelity at the slight expense of noise as the light waves pass through multiple layers of photodiode sensor material. Sony has been looking at Sigma's Foveon sensor technology for at least five years now and after Apple's recent threat to goto ON Semiconductor or Canon for imagers due to pricing and technology issues, it looks like Sony is preparing a counter-attack against intrusion into Sony's image sensor marketplace!

Sony is ALSO exploring obtaining lighter weight and CHEAPER lenses for its consumer and prosumer camera bodies that will sit below their G-master line with 75 to 80% of the quality at half the price! Going with a PROVEN leader such as Sigma to supply OEM lenses makes a whole lot of sense for Sony. Sigma is better and faster at producing good quality lenses at much cheaper prices. Not everyone needs G-Master lenses! AND their current lineup of lower-quality lenses isn't all that great compared to what Sigma could offer as an OEM for Sony!

We MIGHT hear an announcement or further rumours about the Sigma deal SOMETIME AFTER the NAB 2024 Show (after April 22, 2024) which takes place in Las Vegas. The current rumour is that these talks are only exploratory but that Sony has already shaken up its C-suite in the area of Image Sensors by indicating that their staff must move forward in reducing sensor costs for major partners AND offering lighter-weight and CHEAPER lens products for consumer and prosumer camera gear! Whether this is going to be a simple OEM licencing deal or an OUTRIGHT PURCHASE of Sigma is right now up in the air as my sources have no idea which of the two routes Sony will take!

I did receive an update that Apple is MOVING AHEAD with further testing of the 64 megapixel image sensor products from ON Semiconductor AND Canon and may be ready to make a decision as soon at July 2024 as to what direction they will be taking with Sony image sensors! I am being told this is a DIRECT PRESSURE TACTIC by Apple upon Sony ....BUT.... that Apple IS ACTUALLY WILLING to change suppliers if Sony doesn't play ball on offering better sensors at better prices for iPhone and iPad products! How this will play out is anyone's guess!

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I have an R8 and a Canon adapter that I use with my Sigma 150-600. Twice now, the lens and adapter has fallen off, thankfully I was holding it both times. I played around with it a bit, and noticed that just a slight touch to the button on my R8 will disengage the adapter, then I think while zooming it loosens itself, then happened to come off those 2 times. This is so scary! First time I thought it was some weird fluke, but now that it happened twice, this needs rectified. Has anyone had this issue? I am going to contact Canon, just wanted to see if anyone else has had this happen.

There was an interesting CP+ article discussing how various companies were going out of their way to change the focus of their marketing at this event to younger people, beginners, and females. From the Nikkei article; At CP+2024, events and exhibitions aimed at young people, women, and families stood out, and photo circle exhibits and

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So I had a theory that the V10 didn't really turn off when you turn it off (because it seemed to drain battery). So I had confirmation today. So I have 2 V10s. I recorded a quick video for Instagram and wanted to connect to the V10 to transfer the video. Well, I picked the wrong camera and it connected to the OFF camera! So the Camera Connect app can connect to a turned off camera!

Hi,

I have a question about my R5. When I want to take a picture (In AV mode) in a dark theatre for a performance, when I half press the shutter button the image through the viewfinder lights up the picture fully and my eye gets flooded with (overexposed) light. When i fully press the shutter the picture is ok and also according to my settings, but why does the half shutter button over exposes the light through the viewfinder so much.

I have no flash connected and or setup to take the picture. The photo is also ok, but somehow the camera keeps over exposuring the viewfinders when the shutter is half pressed. In the end when shooting many photo,s this is very aannoying because it,s like watching into a weld flame.

My previous camera was a Eos 70d which didn`t have this ( i think it,s a function).

Hopefully someone recognises this. I tried turning of exposure simulation however that did not solve the issue.