Hardware Hack for EOS Cameras Coming Soon? [CR1]
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jdramirez said:
Now there you go. THAT would be a real improvement. A main board in the camera that detects the lens attached, adjust automatically the AFMA value and keep this value as long as this lens is attached. When you bump your camera it immediately re-adjust the AFMA value.
Come on....you see self diagnostic programs in cars and other products. This is the 21st century...bring it on Canon before others will do...
I hate to go through all the work with Reikan.....
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I think it is great and will sign up immediately. Or I would, if I had not just lost all my money to a Nigerian email scam, anyway not to worry as I have just been notified that I have won the lottery. Filling that email out now. Maybe the beautiful girl - Iamyourski - will talk to me again now I am rich, she seemed to lose interest when I said I had no money left the last time we chatted online. ;D
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Imagine, it's like soldiering a new chip that allows to overrive all the params: like FPS, aperture step, or something.
We already have a software to control this, now we need a hardware without a factory-made limits.
I still cannot see where the DR improvements come from, but I guess this is possible.
May be... May be canon have some limitations built in, and difference between 1dX and 5d3 is there. Like same sensor tech, but Canon inserts extra noice in "cheaper" 5d3. Same for shutter: you limit it to 4fps, so people who need more are forced to buy another model, but actually there's no limiting factor in 5d3 which prevents it from doing 10fps in perfect conditions.
We already have a software to control this, now we need a hardware without a factory-made limits.
I still cannot see where the DR improvements come from, but I guess this is possible.
May be... May be canon have some limitations built in, and difference between 1dX and 5d3 is there. Like same sensor tech, but Canon inserts extra noice in "cheaper" 5d3. Same for shutter: you limit it to 4fps, so people who need more are forced to buy another model, but actually there's no limiting factor in 5d3 which prevents it from doing 10fps in perfect conditions.
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Canon Rumors said:
Optimized PCB layout might help to get the pedestal noise down which increases DR directly. Perhaps they introduce some intelligent readout which reads the sensor twice to extend the DR by increasing the max counted photons per subpixel. Sometimes tiny alterations of PCB layout reduce "electronic dirt" on signals making them cleaner, more realistic.
Our brain disciminates very subtle changes in signals. Think about sound reproduction: I added a dipole subwoofer to my very good loud speakers and the rendering of sound below 35Hz is magic - I don't hear to much new things in that region.
Listening is much easier than before; from psychoaccoustics we know that the brain adds missing details very effectively like bass sound from higher frequencies. But I think, the brain has to do the calculation of missing details - if you add the detail you need less processing power which can be used to enjoy the music.
The same might apply to optics/cameras.
Another thought: cooling or at least stablizing the temperature to something like 20 degree celsius for sensor and ADC might help to reduce noise sources substantially.
IMHO substantially higher frame rates are not possible because the shutter mechanism will limit fps for an EOS 5D MarkIII.
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I'm intrigued by this for video reasons. The ML raw hack is great for getting good image quality, but it is not really all practical for most uses for me. The main limitation for me in making it practical is hardware, in that I can only record 10 minutes on a 64 GB CF card.
Add hardware that has the ability to mount an SSD drive? All of the sudden, this camera is as (or more) functional than, say, a Blackmagic Cinema Camera. Add a good codec that will record a 10-bit ProResHQ file (even to a CF card)? That would be very nice, too - perhaps even better than raw. More dynamic range would be fine in video, but if you are just going to record it in an 8-bit, compressed as %$#! codec, then what's point?
Finally, it will depend on who the company is. Is it ML? Those guys are great with software, but what about hardware?
Add hardware that has the ability to mount an SSD drive? All of the sudden, this camera is as (or more) functional than, say, a Blackmagic Cinema Camera. Add a good codec that will record a 10-bit ProResHQ file (even to a CF card)? That would be very nice, too - perhaps even better than raw. More dynamic range would be fine in video, but if you are just going to record it in an 8-bit, compressed as %$#! codec, then what's point?
Finally, it will depend on who the company is. Is it ML? Those guys are great with software, but what about hardware?
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1st. If this is true it was made possible by myself buying my 2nd 5DMkIII camera instead of waiting (Murphy's Law in action!!!) ;D
2nd. In reality, the best possible hack is the introduction of 5DMkIV by Canon themselves sometime in the future... ;D
2nd. In reality, the best possible hack is the introduction of 5DMkIV by Canon themselves sometime in the future... ;D
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pedro said:
Or just sensor swap with a 6D.
6D with 5D3 AF and priced between 6D and 5D3, WOW! Even if they just put 19 double cross AF to 6D, I will certainly be a lot happier now.While we are at it, a 6D with an upgraded AF will also be fine. WTH, a 6D with all the other points the same with the center point capability will be enough for me.
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Sounds like a 5D4 upgrade without warranty for 1K. If the mod really can bring a lot of benefit, I would consider for it since my 1.5 year old 5D3 is out of Canon warranty.
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Give the 5D3 the same DR of the D800, while retaining the ability to shoot RAW video through Magic Lantern, and I'll get one in a heartbeat.
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IMO the way this whole article has been written it deserves no more than CR0.
And it really sounds like if the author's nigerian cousins, that he hasn't seen for quite a long time, dropped him a letter with the new idea... ???
Additionally:
1/ the talk is about the motherboard and NOT about the sensor.
2/ I wonder what CANON has to say about in legal terms about unathourised tunning.
PS: I hate tablets
And it really sounds like if the author's nigerian cousins, that he hasn't seen for quite a long time, dropped him a letter with the new idea... ???
Additionally:
1/ the talk is about the motherboard and NOT about the sensor.
2/ I wonder what CANON has to say about in legal terms about unathourised tunning.
PS: I hate tablets
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I agree about CR0. HOWEVER, in the extremely highly unlikely case that this were to be true - which I do not believe it is - sold cameras do NOT belong to Canon. So their owners should do whatever they want with them if they do not care about guarantee. Plus, they did not sign any agreement when they bought the cameras...Diko said:
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I also believe this won't happen, but there's a slim chance of it being true: Canon uses off-sensor ADCs, and maybe someone has found a way to replace those with less-noisy ones, while working within exactly the same specs that the processor is made to work with. Really, really unlikely. But it could happen, and a sensor swap would not be needed.
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