The sound of silence

[Don Haines]

So today is the much anticipated April 23 day of announcements... When the earth shakes and both the 70D (new sensor technology) and the 200-400 lens ( rumored to exist longer than Bigfoot and the Loch Ness monster) get revealed to the world......

So far, silence....

 

[Ontario55]

Lets hope "Silence is Golden" and that when and if there is any announcement that it's a good one.
I'm waiting to pull the pin and buy a new version 7D
Hurry up Canon

 

[hamada]

canon just anncounced that they will make no annocument today.

 

[Click]

canon just anncounced that they will make no annocument today.

 

[Dylan777]

So today is the much anticipated April 23 day of announcements... When the earth shakes and both the 70D (new sensor technology) and the 200-400 lens ( rumored to exist longer than Bigfoot and the Loch Ness monster) get revealed to the world......

So far, silence....

They did...#1 DSLR maker in the world ;D

 

[charlesa]

No 1 and with a dearth of products...

 

[Pieces Of E]

Where the heck is the EOS-M firmware update??

 

[bigal1000]

Where the heck is the EOS-M firmware update??

Yea Canon where the hell is it!

 

[x-vision]

So far, silence....

One thing has become crystal clear over the past years:

• no leaks = no announcement

So, follow the leaks, as they say 8).

 

[bigal1000]

Written by Paul Simon sung by "Simon@Garfunkel"

 

[rpt]

Written by Paul Simon sung by "Simon@Garfunkel"

That is the first thought that hit me. I just love that song!

And then there was the news of the bombing in Boston some days back - and in Tripoli and the killings in Nigeria and so many more deaths... for no reason. And as you can notice I am just talking about human deaths...
*sigh*

I wish we were "better" living beings...

 

[dlleno]

silence is golden...#1 DSLR maker ....

translation: shut up and get rich

 

[Midphase]

Written by Paul Simon sung by "Simon@Garfunkel"

Sorry to be the grammar police...but @ ≠ &.

;D

 

[distant.star]

.
Well, not total silence.

Nikon today announced a firmware update for their Coolpix P7700.

People ARE talking!

 

[bvukich]

I had to chuckle; this date, and silence, means something completely different to whovians...

https://plus.google.com/u/0/s/%23SilenceWillFall/posts

 

[skullyspice]

canon just anncounced that they will make no annocument today.

I guess that still counts as an announcement

 

[eml58]

Written by Paul Simon sung by "Simon@Garfunkel"

That is the first thought that hit me. I just love that song!

And then there was the news of the bombing in Boston some days back - and in Tripoli and the killings in Nigeria and so many more deaths... for no reason. And as you can notice I am just talking about human deaths...
*sigh*

I wish we were "better" living beings...

Agreed, were not, but we live in hope.

 

[Hobby Shooter]

So today is the much anticipated April 23 day of announcements... When the earth shakes and both the 70D (new sensor technology) and the 200-400 lens ( rumored to exist longer than Bigfoot and the Loch Ness monster) get revealed to the world......

So far, silence....

I would react, but the 200-400 will be out of my range and I am all set for equipment anyway, at least for the next few months. BUT one thing that concerns me (or it could be that I've spent too much time on this forum) is that Canon seems a bit slow with their launches, have they always been that? Or is it that the market have been disrupted by Sony's new sensors and possibly Sigma's recent announcements?

This is not a troll post, I am a Canon guy and will stay a Canon guy for years to come, I am very happy with my gear. I'm just trying to get my arms around it.

thanks
J

 

[ksagomonyants]

canon just anncounced that they will make no annocument today.

I doubt Canon announced anything. All we talk about is our speculations which may or may not have anything to do with plans of Canon itself.

 

[ROBOTMAN28]

I had to jump in here. Whenever I get new cameraitis I get my 7D out and go take some pictures. Tonight I used my tripod and took several shots off of my patio as the sun was going down. I used my 24-105 at 28 mm and F8. I tried a few little tweaks like bumping the saturation up to 1 in the Neutral setting and increasing the sharpness to 2. I tried different focus modes from my usual "Single point AF", including the manual zone select shifted to the left for a particular tree. I played with white balance settings. I shot in Live mode with a 2 second timer for many of the shots. I took 19 shots all in all. Brought them inside and pixel peeped the heck out of them. I made some crops, kept one in the original framing, and made a watercolor out of a crop of the tree that caught my eye. The crummy old 7D will still take better images than I can visualize. I don't use the fast focus on mine so much, stills and macro are more my thing. My point is, the camera isn't the limitation, I am.

Still, the new ones will make it easier to get good images (we used to say exposures) and I like the idea of higher res. With high resolution you can use a really good fixed lens and crop your zoom later. I feel like I am missing out on something not having a new way cool camera right now! I guess I'll just try to get more things framed correctly the first time and learn how to use the camera I have with more skill!!! LOL