Any new canon cinema cameras using thunderbolt?

[dturano]

I read a while back canon was considering taking the initiative and planned to have thunderbolt ports in video cameras? Most of the new cinema cameras specs are out,right?

Would they start with entry level video cameras?

I'm a Mac user and was hoping by now to see at least some thunderbolt card readers on the market, I also thought q1 2012 sandisk was rumored to roll something out.

Thunderbolt has great potential, I think apple was hoping vendors would jump on it, weren't they basically giving away the technology? As far as rolling out all specs to vendors to et them to incorporate it, camera manufacturers, phone manufacturers, tv manufacturers, etc.

Apple should have released the iPhone 4 with thunderbolt option to help get it out there.

 

[prestonpalmer]

I think we are at least two generations away from that yet. I mean, c'mon... The MacBook Pro doesn't even have USB 3 yet! And they aren't even using USB 3 in the 5D3. This stuff sometimes takes way longer than it should.

 

[dr croubie]

Unfortunately for you, I see Thunderbolt going the same way as Firewire.
Firewire may have been a lot faster than USB when it was released, firewire 400 was a few years before usb2, and there probably were (and are) a fair few production houses using firewire 400 and 800 fairly intensely.
But the market is dictated by the little guys, and usb won out over firewire, regardless of which is better.

I predict the same future for Thunderbolt. It may be technically better than using a DisplayPort and USB3 cables seperately, but my money's on thunderbolt dying a slow death. That could change, if *every* major company like canon and sony put it on all their cameras, dell and hp put it on all their systems (not just mac), etc, but I just don't see it happening...

 

[Mt Spokane Photography]

Thunderbolt had a target market of portable hard drives, where the extreme speed would be a big benefit. Equipment is starting to come out, but with security issues and cables that sell for $40.00, its not set for mass market popularity yet, and will likely appear in specialty equipment first. Three years from now, it should be in the next generation of cameras, but may hit high end video cameras first.

 

[AG]

Thunderbolt had a target market of portable hard drives, where the extreme speed would be a big benefit. Equipment is starting to come out, but with security issues and cables that sell for $40.00, its not set for mass market popularity yet, and will likely appear in specialty equipment first. Three years from now, it should be in the next generation of cameras, but may hit high end video cameras first.

+1 agreed

 

[JurijTurnsek]

sticking the SD card in your laptop is so much easier and faster. now, if you're using CF, card reader would be the same kind of hassle as a cable...

also, while I root for USB3, thunderbolt has a few advantages, kudos to Apple for not using the usb type connector for backwards compatibility. What a bunch of greedy idiots. Also, a little know fact is, that not a Thunderbold ports are equally powerfull: macbook pro's port can handle 2x times of what a macbook air can... but no one is going to tell you that before you buy it.