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*UPDATE* 5D Mark III Sighting?

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Re: 5D Mark III Sighting?

Ellen Schmidtee said:
Nrbelex said:
What are the arguments for this being the 5D mkIII over a 7D mkII? It hasn't been a full three years since the 7D release, but I can see how the 7D might get refreshed early...

It's reasonable for Canon to have prototypes some while before the cycle is completed.

Way to early for a 7D Mk II in my opinion. Would I be correct in saying that it would be out of the ord for Canon to do this for the 7D so soon? Three years is not that long.
 
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What will be interesting to watch is the Canon 5D MK II prices. I've just noticed that I can get one for £1438.80 at the moment which is a good price. Whats the bets you can knock £300-£400 off that in the next week or so.

Could be quite tempting for some.
 
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Re: 5D Mark III Sighting?

Rank_90 said:
Ellen Schmidtee said:
Nrbelex said:
What are the arguments for this being the 5D mkIII over a 7D mkII? It hasn't been a full three years since the 7D release, but I can see how the 7D might get refreshed early...

It's reasonable for Canon to have prototypes some while before the cycle is completed.

Way to early for a 7D Mk II in my opinion. Would I be correct in saying that it would be out of the ord for Canon to do this for the 7D so soon? Three years is not that long.

+1
I think focus in 2012 is Canon 1D-X and Canon 5D MKIII
They may consider an update for the 7D in 2013 with announcement in september (Photokina perhaps?)
 
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Tijn said:
K-amps said:
Another thing that indicates it is a 5D3, if you look at the size of the optical viewfinder opening, the 5D's is slightly larger than the 7d's ) relative to width of the Flash holder; on the mystery camera, it is more like the size of the 5D2/ FF.

In the attach pic, it's a crude approximation of the relative sizes of the view finder. & has the smallest, 5d2 is larger and mystery camera is as large as 5d2 (if not more), and visibly wider than 7d.

Thanks for the picture comparison, it made me look closer. But I cannot draw the same conclusion as you did. When brightening up the "mystery camera" picture, you see the edges of a smaller viewfinder than the 5D's inside the dark cutout - just like you see in the 7D picture you posted. On the 5D picture, there are no edges visible - only corners (inside the viewfinder). Now if you look at the mystery camera prototype and brighten it up, you do see edges - even though the camera is angled slightly to the side, you see full side edges on both sides. Note the blue spotted line.

To me, this still leans heavily towards the 7D.

I agree. It surely isn't a FF viewfinder.
here is a corrected image by me:
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Click here for full size (1600x1400)
 
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Drama79 said:
Not read all 21 pages (seriously guys? no one here works?) But my guess is the RATE button will switch between frame rates quickly in movie mode. May be a sign there's more options....

Going by the placement (alongside review, delete, magnify etc.) I'd guess it more likely to be in the sense of rating images. Happy to be proved wrong though...
 
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akiskev said:
Tijn said:
K-amps said:
Another thing that indicates it is a 5D3, if you look at the size of the optical viewfinder opening, the 5D's is slightly larger than the 7d's ) relative to width of the Flash holder; on the mystery camera, it is more like the size of the 5D2/ FF.

In the attach pic, it's a crude approximation of the relative sizes of the view finder. & has the smallest, 5d2 is larger and mystery camera is as large as 5d2 (if not more), and visibly wider than 7d.

Thanks for the picture comparison, it made me look closer. But I cannot draw the same conclusion as you did. When brightening up the "mystery camera" picture, you see the edges of a smaller viewfinder than the 5D's inside the dark cutout - just like you see in the 7D picture you posted. On the 5D picture, there are no edges visible - only corners (inside the viewfinder). Now if you look at the mystery camera prototype and brighten it up, you do see edges - even though the camera is angled slightly to the side, you see full side edges on both sides. Note the blue spotted line.

To me, this still leans heavily towards the 7D.

I agree. It surely isn't a FF viewfinder.
here is a corrected image by me:

1DX also has a black cutout in the viewfinder.
CANON-1DX-FI-BACK.jpg
 
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WibblyPig said:
Drama79 said:
Not read all 21 pages (seriously guys? no one here works?) But my guess is the RATE button will switch between frame rates quickly in movie mode. May be a sign there's more options....

Going by the placement (alongside review, delete, magnify etc.) I'd guess it more likely to be in the sense of rating images. Happy to be proved wrong though...
IMHO, it's just one more button that could be reassigned to do something I really need. That's great! :)
 
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CMDVisuals said:
akiskev said:
Tijn said:
K-amps said:
Another thing that indicates it is a 5D3, if you look at the size of the optical viewfinder opening, the 5D's is slightly larger than the 7d's ) relative to width of the Flash holder; on the mystery camera, it is more like the size of the 5D2/ FF.

In the attach pic, it's a crude approximation of the relative sizes of the view finder. & has the smallest, 5d2 is larger and mystery camera is as large as 5d2 (if not more), and visibly wider than 7d.

Thanks for the picture comparison, it made me look closer. But I cannot draw the same conclusion as you did. When brightening up the "mystery camera" picture, you see the edges of a smaller viewfinder than the 5D's inside the dark cutout - just like you see in the 7D picture you posted. On the 5D picture, there are no edges visible - only corners (inside the viewfinder). Now if you look at the mystery camera prototype and brighten it up, you do see edges - even though the camera is angled slightly to the side, you see full side edges on both sides. Note the blue spotted line.

To me, this still leans heavily towards the 7D.

I agree. It surely isn't a FF viewfinder.
here is a corrected image by me:

1DX also has a black cutout in the viewfinder.
CANON-1DX-FI-BACK.jpg

Not only 1dx but older 1d-ds series too. so... ?!?...
 
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ecka said:
WibblyPig said:
Drama79 said:
Not read all 21 pages (seriously guys? no one here works?) But my guess is the RATE button will switch between frame rates quickly in movie mode. May be a sign there's more options....

Going by the placement (alongside review, delete, magnify etc.) I'd guess it more likely to be in the sense of rating images. Happy to be proved wrong though...
IMHO, it's just one more button that could be reassigned to do something I really need. That's great! :)

Given that it is blue, same as the "play" and other review buttons, I've also been assuming it is to rate each photo as you are scrolling through. Something like hit the "rate" button and the 5 stars show up and you rate the photo.

I don't use this feature but maybe "rating" photos is very popular.
 
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CMDVisuals said:
akiskev said:
CMDVisuals said:
1DX also has a black cutout in the viewfinder.

Not only 1dx but older 1d-ds series too. so... ?!?...

which makes only one possible conclusion: The cutout in the viewfinder has nothing to do with whether the mystery cam is ff or not.

+ 1 for that. Exactly ! We wont know until some new info will leak (or be presented).
 
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candyman said:
Well, could it be a 70D?
No, not without a flash. 70D is too consumer-oriented. It has all the portrait, macro, auto-flash preset modes and everything for those who don't want to watch apertures and shutter speeds. Being able to flash (even if it's crap) has a high convenience value for those people.
 
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