The Always Hidden Camera at the World Cup

[barton springs]

We have been told numerous times that the replacement to the EOS 7D would be at the World Cup
going through professional testing. Maybe that’s what’s under the cover.
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I find it hard to take the original rumor serious.

For this kind of important work I've never shared space with anyone not using a late
model pro body of the 1D or D1 series variety, it just goes with the territory... I don't
think it's a 7D. I think that photog is trying to draw attention to himself which is not
good and I bet a violation of the agreement he or his agency signed to get his credential.

 

[G650ER]

I've been watching a lot of matches and I swear I got a glimpse of some lenses I've never seen before (ex. 100-400 II). However I don't remember anymore which matches those were at, and have no screen captures or anything.
It's sure there is new equipment being tested out in the field, it's just a matter of time someone see's it and captures it.

I was surprised to see some old primes like the 400 f/2.8 II (non IS) being used, or non gripped EOS cameras. Seems to me that at these kind of events you have the newest and best ???

 

[JohnUSA]

Just joining the fun! Note the "Elephant Man" reference.

 

[Marauder]

Just joining the fun! Note the "Elephant Man" reference.

LOL Awesome! ;D

 

[Click]

Ha Ha Ha ;D

 

[Don Haines]

It was raining in the matches today or prior, but what I found interesting was what looked someone shooting with a sx50hs on a monopod. Seems like an odd camera for a pro at a night game

It could be the rumored SX-60..... Perhaps that is the secret camera that Canon is testing and not a 7D2

 

[Marauder]

It was raining in the matches today or prior, but what I found interesting was what looked someone shooting with a sx50hs on a monopod. Seems like an odd camera for a pro at a night game

It could be the rumored SX-60..... Perhaps that is the secret camera that Canon is testing and not a 7D2

LOL Wouldn't THAT make the forum run red with blood and fury!!!! : LOL

 

[Diko]

Re: 1Dx mark II or 7D mark II

...

Sorry about your premature post problem...

I don't think the picture points to much at all, but it's more robust than most of the stuff that Craig and myself get sent ;-)

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Actually if I had nailed it down with some bizarre new button I would have posted right away.

But since failed to find on the first game any huge-easy-to-distinct-from-half-a-soccer-field modification on any body presented there, I am afraid I had no other option except to prematurely post it just to express my disbelief what a joke of a picture NL has posted.

IMO anyone would share my opinion that for a rumor site NL is quite respectable. But this last picture that was posted is shared all over th3 intern3t. And it is quite, quite away from even logical explanation to '"you know this rain-coated camera could be the new 7D M2 that everyone KNOWS that it will be on the WC 2014.... or maybe it is not."

Even worse: CR reposts it.

 

[Don Haines]

It was raining in the matches today or prior, but what I found interesting was what looked someone shooting with a sx50hs on a monopod. Seems like an odd camera for a pro at a night game

It could be the rumored SX-60..... Perhaps that is the secret camera that Canon is testing and not a 7D2

LOL Wouldn't THAT make the forum run red with blood and fury!!!! : LOL

Yes...

SX-60...
20-1500mm equivalent...
DPAF
digic6 processor
gps, wifi and touchscreen
and even 4K 24fps video

I bet they would sell WAY!!! more of those than the 7D2 and 5D4 combined....

 

[Rudolf Rudolph]

There is a brand new lens under the cover. It is a super L IS UM f/2.8-800 mm lens. A famous Dutch cycle press agency is testing this canon from Canon. On sale after Photokina 2014 Köln Germany, price about € 35.000.

 

[halituzun]

There were at least 7-8 so called hidden cameras during Arg-Hol semifinal game. 'Canon' brand name was written on the cover material. A lot of them were the middle part of the pitch rather than corner areas. Testing a crop body from distance may be ? No rain before and during the game and all the Nikon body and lenses used were without cover btw.

 

[rs]

There were at least 7-8 so called hidden cameras during Arg-Hol semifinal game. 'Canon' brand name was written on the cover material. A lot of them were the middle part of the pitch rather than corner areas. Testing a crop body from distance may be ? No rain before and during the game and all the Nikon body and lenses used were without cover btw.

Those photographers probably read CR, and are just playing with us ;D

 

[dslrdummy]

There is a brand new lens under the cover. It is a super L IS UM f/2.8-800 mm lens. A famous Dutch cycle press agency is testing this canon from Canon. On sale after Photokina 2014 Köln Germany, price about € 35.000.

Composition would be a challenge unless they're shooting from the top row of the grandstand.

 

[zim]

There were at least 7-8 so called hidden cameras during Arg-Hol semifinal game. 'Canon' brand name was written on the cover material. A lot of them were the middle part of the pitch rather than corner areas. Testing a crop body from distance may be ? No rain before and during the game and all the Nikon body and lenses used were without cover btw.

errrr... it was pissin down ;D

 

[expatinasia]

There were at least 7-8 so called hidden cameras during Arg-Hol semifinal game. 'Canon' brand name was written on the cover material.

LOL. Of course it has Canon written on them, they are Canon rain covers (they come in three different sizes), and if you were very observant you will have noticed that the writing is sometimes red and sometimes grey. The red ones are the older version, the grey ones the newer.

I have all three.

If you would like one, contact Canon as that is where you buy them from.

Just imagine all the prototypes and new inventions you could hide the next time you are trying to work in torrential rain!!! ??? ;D :

 

[Chapman Baxter]

In the Brazil - Germany game, I was so obsessed about spotting a new Canon body being tested that I completely ignored the game itself. I hope I didn't miss anything.

 

[Don Haines]

In the Brazil - Germany game, I was so obsessed about spotting a new Canon body being tested that I completely ignored the game itself. I hope I didn't miss anything.

Brazil scored at the very end of the game.... I'm fairly sure Germany didn't do anything noteworthy....

 

[mackguyver]

Who says it's a rain cover? It could be a:

- Drool cover - envy is messy thing when staring at a new DSLR body
- Sweat cover - some of those players don't seem big on showers or anti-antiperspirant
- Sound cover - new shutter noises draw the attention of fellow shooters - and who needs a sound blimp when vinyl will do?
- Sun cover - if lenses are white to prevent issues from heat expansion, why does Canon only make a few Rebel bodies in white? Solution - white cover!
- Dark bag - maybe he's still shooting film

 

[Richard8971]

No, no, it IS the 7D2. It's now official!

http://www.inferse.com/16087/canon-eos-7d-mark-ii-spotted-fifa-world-cup-mid-september-release-date/

D

 

[zim]

No, no, it IS the 7D2. It's now official!

http://www.inferse.com/16087/canon-eos-7d-mark-ii-spotted-fifa-world-cup-mid-september-release-date/

D

Nailed it!!!
Must check out the Canon Rumors source they quote, sounds like those guys are on the ball