Not sure if anyone's posted this yet, but here's a rather interesting utilization of the 5D MKII...

http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/04/mercedes-f-cell-gets-led-camouflage/

Like a large continent of us opted for the new 5D3...I absolutely love my Sigma 10-20mm, she's served me well on many a world trip...but now that FF is in my future what to replace her with...

A prime like the 14mm is nice but $$, the 17-40 and 16-35 don't get amazing reviews...

What would you do?

Would extension tubes solve my prob, let me keep my trusty 10-20mm or is this a bad idea?

All thoughts appreciated.

The other 5 though...

What are the chances we'll see a new 85mm f/1.2L, and a new 135mm f/2L?

I realize that the 85mm f/1.2L II is only 6 years old, but looking at the MTF chart - I think Canon could do astoundingly better today if it wanted to... not only with the image quality (chromatic aberrations/fringing), but also with the auto-focus, which a fair number of people complain is fairly slow compared to other L lenses.

The 135 f/2L, though, is 16 years old and could definitely use an update on all fronts.

These are two lenses I'm hoping to see updated in the near future, what lenses would you like to see updated?

(Note - we all know lots of you wanted a 24-70mm f/2.8L IS, so let's just take that off the table for now.)

The 5 lenses (CR) mentioned were...

- EF-S 18-135 f/3.5-5.6 IS II
- EF/EF-S 40 f/2.8 Pancake
- EF 200-400 f/4L IS 1.4X TC
- EF 35 f/1.4L II
- EF 100-400 f/4-5.6L IS II

Yep. This is probably the oldest question, but...here we go. I can afford to wait, but based on rumors and your opinions, what should I do? I'd hate to buy the T3i and be disappointed for not being patient when the T4i comes out, but I don't know how long to wait. What would you do? Does anyone have any idea when it might come out? Thanks for any help!

http://cpn.canon-europe.com/content/education/technical/frits_van_eldik_eos_1dx.do

there is one special picture from Lotus F1 driver Heikki Kovalainen that looks really great at ISO 10.000
of course, again, this are small samples but i think this camera will rock. well i hope so since i bought one. haha

cheers guys.
have a nice weekend

Nico

I'm looking to take advantage of the current rebates going on but I'm not sure if they only apply to buying direct from Canon or if you can still get it from doing a local purchase. Anyone know how this works?

I pre-ordered the camera at approximately 12:20am EST the night that it was announced at B&H. I called up B&H today and asked them where I stood in the pre-order queue. He couldn't give me an exact answer, but he indicated that I was in the first 500 pre-orders, but in the latter half (so around position 350-450). He also stated that the current queue has ballooned well past 10,000 pre-orders (but again, didn't give me the exact figure).

When I asked him how many units they will receive in the first shipment, he said that they were still unsure as to the number as of this point. Anywhere from 100 to 1000 was the ballpark number that he gave me, but said to take those figures with a grain of salt.

Fingers crossed that they receive at least 350 in the first shipment.

I have seen others write that the ISO on the new 5D, Mark III is 2 stops improved and that the 1DX ISO reflects three stops of improvement. If so, for me, the question is whether one more stop of improvement is worth close double the price (yes, I realize there are other differences, the this is the one that matters the most to me).

Is the way we measure improvement to the sensor just in terms of ISO, or are there other improvements that go beyond ISO that either increase image quality at any given ISO number or that further improve the ISO.

Bottom line: If it is just image quality, on the 5D, Mark III, I assume now I can set the ISO to 3200 and get the same level of noise that I got at 800 on my 5D Mark II. What other improvements should I expect? I realize much of this will only become clear once people have worked with the cameras, but for those of you who know more about how the specs translate into image quality, I would appreciate your thoughts.

Thanks

Jack Siegel

OK, here's the rub ...

My only body currently is an 8 year old 1DMkII

The lenses I have are:

24-70L I
70-200L IS II
85 f/1.8
100 f/2.8 macro

I have a once in a lifetime opportunity to spend 5 weeks in the Philippines and would like to maximise the opportunity to grab some saleable travel and landscape images, but feel my current kit will fall somewhat short of the challenge. I had a 1Dx on preorder more or less from the day it was announced but (maybe foolishly in retrospect) cancelled it when the 5DMkIII was announced as I thought the MkIII might suit my needs at around half the price. Now it seems, due to my dithering, there's no way I'll have my hands on a MkIII before I fly out there on 12th April. Really bad timing.

So, what are my options?

Buy a 5DMkII to tide me over? Will it be up to the job e.g. will the weather sealing be OK in a very hot, very humid climate? if this is the way to go, buy now at £1695 or wait for prices to drop (and are prices likely to drop in the next few weeks)?

How about lenses and filters? Anything essential that I'm missing?

I'll state what should be obvious from the foregoing i.e. I have no experience shooting landscapes - nada, zilch, none at all so I'm really in need of some guidance ... so, all you travel/landscape photographers, I'll be grateful for any and all advice that you can offer me 8)

Canon EOS 5D Mark III ISO Test

Although Canon claim that the new 5D Mark III has a 2-stop ISO advantage over the older 5D Mark II in JPeG capture, it would appear that this is true at lower ISO levels, but possibly not so, above say ISO 3200 or 6400?

For those who been there, done that…I would like to have your opinions on Canon 50mm f1.2 lens.

1. What make you choose f1.2 over f1.4?

OR

2. What make you choose f1.4 over f1.2?

I’m thinking upgrade my f1.4 to f1.2…..its worth it???

Thanks guys,
Dylan

Hello Canon lovers, especially those who can't wait for 1Dx to come out.

Follow this link if you want to see short demo of sport photographer Tyler Stableford who is using new Canon 1DX and Canon 600-EX-RT Speedlite on location to shoot portraits of legendary alpinist, Steve House.

http://www.iso1200.com/2012/03/tyler-stableford-canon-1dx-and-canon.html

Enjoy... ;D

Archangel72

I'm looking for online shops that sell Canon gear AND offer to deduct VAT by adding your vat number. I'd really prefer German or UK shops, but any EU shop would do really.

So if you know of any please list em up... it really does matter that you can deduct VAT straight away.

I don't know if anyone has seen this article yet, I'm not a video user so I cannot form a judgement. Their assessment seems very preliminary and full of caveats, but it may interest you video guys:

http://www.eoshd.com/content/7311/canon-5d-mark-iii-vs-nikon-d800-for-video

Since I 1st read this was slated for release I keep wondering as to its purposes. It seems like a very odd duck. Primes like the 28 mm are all ready fairly small. I'm thinking it would be even a bit odd on the rebel body. Perhaps I'm missing something?

Does anyone know if the 5D III will have the capability to edit clips in camera like the 60D. I have searched around, but I haven't found any info on it. Even if it's only a basic editor to trim clips, I think it's invaluable. Anyone who has shot video knows that sometimes you'll have a 1 minute clip that is mostly garbage but you can't delete it because there is a 5 second bit in there that was great, and the whole clip chews up massive hard drive space.

Assuming the side masking area can be used for the measurement then:

Same DR for 5D3 and 5D2 is what I get. Zero improvement for ISO 100 DR.
Wow I had really expected a big improvement. Canon still had a lot of room there to get better.

I think the D800 will quite a lot more maximum dynamic range unless they really messed up the D7000/D3x->D800 Exmor transition.

I just hope that it will turn out the side masking area on the 5D3 images is not valid for this purpose (the top masking area definitely appears to be invalid for this purpose with the 5D3, I just hope same can be said for the side, but it doesn't really look like that will be the case).


On a side note, the SNR might be 1/2 to 2/3rd stops better than the 5D2 though, but that is based off of using ACR which is a sketchy way to compare. High ISO banding appears to be cleaned up on the 5D3 compared to the 5D2, if so and if it is 2/3 better SNR than that is a pretty decent improvement on the high end, but I wonder if Canon has the tech to improve ISO100.

I'm buying a 7D soon, and I'm trying to figure out what lenses I should buy. How good are really the third party lenses? I'm looking at wide angles, and some of the prices of the sigmas seem to good to be true. Should I go with a canon lens, which costs much more, or should I buy a third party lens?
Also, what wide angles do you guys recommend? I have never had one, so I have no idea what I should choose. I will be using it as a cool portrait lens, and for landscapes.
I want an extreme wide angle around 10mm, but as I said, I'm really clueless as to which one I should buy.

Looking to expand some capabilities here. Have a few scenarios.

Will it be possible to use the new iPad as a external display while filming with the 5d MKIII?
Can it or the iPhone 4s be used to remotely view stills as they are shot?
Can either be used as a remote for the 5D MKIII?
Can it be used to assist in offloading a few photos and do some quick edits?

As far as that last one, I know the 5D MKIII now has an SD card slot, so you could just use the camera adapter kit for the iPad to offload a few quick shots and edit in the new iPhoto for iPad app or in a ton of other apps. Also seagate makes a wireless hard drive just for the iPad and similar tablets. The go flex satellite. We have used them in the past to off load stills and video in the field to be able to review on the larger screen and store in the hard drive. Not a bad set up, better than taking a laptop out there on video shoots just to get a better review.

I'm looking at the new hi def display of the iPad 3 and it would be amazing if it could be used as an external display in real time.

What do y'all think? With the new technology in the 5D MKIII and iPad 3 make any of this possible? Any other cool things that could be done with the Canon/Apple/Seagate trio that I may have missed?

if im not completely wrong the new canon sensors are still not using the backlight technology that sony uses for it´s EXMOR R sensors.

is there any official statement form canon that they are working on backlight sensors for their DSLR cameras?

i know there are some problems for larger sensors... but problems can be fixed right.

i mean today everthing is about gathering light, so more light hits the photosites and not some circuits on the sensor. canon is advertising new microlens design, gapless microlenses etc. with every new sensor.

but the backlight design should improve the sensor more then going from microlenses with a gap to a gapless design.. or not?

or is the backlight design not as efficient on a bigger sensor?
somewere i read that on bigger sensors the circuits occupie a smaller percentage then on small sensors.

so is there any info from canon about this?

Hello All, This is a living post and as we discuss things on this topic I will try to update it. This topic is really about Mirror less tech and sensors, please keep that in mind

Thank you.

For some weeks now I have been trying to figure out what Canon has been doing the past 4 years. Was the set back from the floods in Thailand that crippling for their R&D department, or was it their IPhone or Android devices in their pockets. I’ve looked at the IPhone 4′s a few weeks ago and took some pictures, pretty good pictures in fact, so good I used them in a brochure for work. So, was this the technology blocking Canon’s future or was it something else altogether different? Maybe… it was just a combination of numerous things or it could have been Sony.

Let’s go over some stuff about Sony here. Did you know that Sony makes the sensors in Nikon D800/D800E, yep, if you want to read more about their sensor go here. So, Nikon just builds the camera and components around the Sony 36mp sensor. What does Canon do, well they design/ build their sensor with Canons own R&D department. So why does this matter, the reasons is money. Sony is a much larger company than Canon.

Astro said:

unkbob said:

Um, no. In terms of company value, Canon is 3 x as big as Sony and still twice as big as Sony + Nikon combined. Canon also has more employees than Sony

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a few numbers form wikipedia:

sony = 168,200 employees
canon = 199,820 employees

sony net income = US $ -2.96 billion (2011)
canon net income = US $ 3.2 billion (2011)

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I stand corrected Sony is losing their @#$es


With Sony and Nikon working together, they’re developing faster sensor technology. I know what you’re thinking, so how does this affect Canon? Well, Canon doesn’t have the money to invest fully in a dying technology as mirrored DSL’s. In fact, it’s hard to believe, but DSL’s with mirrors are done after this year. We will see the last of them from now to the end of this year. (2012, in my opinion) I’m not saying they won’t be selling them the next 3 years, but the 5D3 and the 1dx have a life span of 3-4 years and mirror less should have advance enough by then.

So, now you might be seeing where I’m going with this. But are we afraid of mirror less DSL’s as photographers? People hate change, especially the older we get, sure there are people that want it right now, but most just don’t understand how it will affect their work. They are so used to mirrored DSLR’s some might think they have to completely change their work flow. Also, the question will be whether the mirror less actually be on par with mirrored DSLR’s or better with the first generation? I really don’t know the answer to that and I’m not going to tell you it is, but will it be slight improvement? It better be, and it really has to be, because people won’t support it fast enough and Canon will lose to competitors like Sony that already has their first gen Nex 7 mirror less DSL out and it’s selling very well.

So what has Canon been doing over the last 4 years? Well, they have better been developing mirror less technologies for their DSL’s, and with the release of the 5D Mark III and hopefully Canon is secretly telling us that. A lot of people aren’t happy with the improvements of the 5D Mark III over its older brother Mark II. But Canon knows it has to secure its future or be obsolete and they can’t afford to invest in another 3 year cycle camera. They are behind Sony already. Canon doesn’t have the budget that Sony does. Canon had to bring out the Canon 5D Mark III to please the Canon folks or lose most of its customers to Nikon. They know their customers have invested heavily in glass and they needed to protect them with something like the merge of the Canon 7D and the 5D, but Canon knew they would lose some of them, maybe not at the extent as reported by posters in forums, but overall Canon did the right thing here. It was very smart, but they can’t have any setbacks, they must move forward at an accelerated pace.

So will there be any more Canon camera’s this year? I would say yes. The 4k DSLR that’s been reported and maybe the first blockbuster announcement of the mirror less Rebel XTi, lol, Just kidding about that one , but I don’t see a 7D Mark II, I might be wrong. It is still a great camera and now the 5D Mark III that has kind of merged the two together. Anyway this is only my opinion folks, but you can see the writing on the wall. Hopefully, Canon’s leadership has the vision to move forward like we all should. So how do you guys feel?

I am a new member and tried to help some people out an in no time I had 3 smites... and i did not flame anyone either. Some guys probably felt sorry for me and "equalized" my "karma... but I figure whats the worst karma I can get... so as a social experiment, I thought of isolating my posts to this one and see how many smite me for it...

Watch this clip... it's a bit old, but still funny and mirrors the feelings people have about me, the 5d.mkiii : Hitler rants about D3x

I ´d like to have some opinions. I currently own a 24-70mm f/2,8 I and use it with a 5D I (classic). I (pre-)ordered a 5D III. My dealer told me, that my old 24-70 isn´t good enough for the 22 MP sensor of the 5D III and tried to explain why the 24-70 II would be better. I didn´t understand his explanation. Does anybody here know, what he could have had in mind?

I am using 40D for sometime now, and judging from my skills and my budget I tend to stay within the xxD series.
I would like to change to other xxD series but im waiting for 70D, if its too expensive then I will try to buy 60D when 70D already out, but if the price is the same with current 60D, I think i will buy it.
So was wondering if theres a rumor about 70D lauching date?
thanks