1D Mark IV Delivery?
I've received a couple emails that state Canon will begin shipping Mark IV's mid next week. I have nothing 100% confirmed.
EOS 60D
Lots of 60D questions. I haven't received any super solid information.
Some things that have popped up over the last month or so. I [CR1] all of this.
1) 60D will be launched in the Spring 2010 and shipping before summer
2) Upgraded 15.1mp sensor
3) 720P video at 24, 25, 30 & 60 fps (No 1080p mode)
4) Same AF system as the 50D with some AI tweaks.
5) 6.3fps remains.
As I said, not much is too solid at this point.
Lenses
I've had a lot of emails saying how happy people would be if a 600 f/4 DO actually gets made. If they correct the low contrast shown in the 400 DO, we could have a big winner.
I did receive an email saying we'd see 2 new fisheyes launched in 2010. One for APS-C and one to replace the 15mm fisheye.
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Yeah, it’s horrible:
http://photo.net/equipment/canon/g11.published.adp
“The Canon Powershot G11 may be the best P&S digicam on the market today”
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canong11/page20.asp
“The G11 combines some of the best compact camera image quality with excellent levels of manual control, an optical viewfinder, flip-out screen, raw capability, superb battery life, flexible lens range and the ability to mount dedicated flashguns.”
^This
60D 70D 80D 90D = boring.
if I want another crop camera I’ll get a 7D.
Bring on the 3D 12-18Mp FF with silky smooth
low iso, noise free 1600 iso, 5fps, 7D AF, 1D3 weather proofing,
The G11 gives you better high ISO ability for it’s drop in MP, but the G10 delivers better images at low ISO’s (according to the DPreview review).
Quotes about the G11 you didn’t provide tell a different story:
“High ISO images lose saturation and detail (and offer no control over noise reduction).”
It has a “rather slow lens…by traditional G series standards”.
“Focus prone to hunting (and focus failure) in low light at longer focal lengths”
“Rather over-sharp JPEGS”
“if you’re tempted to buy the G11 for its image quality, flexibility of lens range or high level of manual control on a compact camera, you may find a camera that outdoes it”
“it’s clearly no match for the truly large-sensor cameras such as the Panasonic GF1 and Olympus E-P1”
“There are more readily pocketable cameras out there that offer similar image quality and, once you’re resigned to wearing it around your neck, there are not much larger cameras that will trump it for image quality (though they are more expensive).”
“Overall, the G11 does perfectly well for a 10MP camera but of course it can’t match the 14.7MP G10 at the thing it does best – low ISO resolution.”
All quotes from the dpreview.com 21 page review.
I don’t know about you, but I don’t want an increase in high ISO ability if it means less performance and quality at low ISO. This is why I said the G11 is one step forward and two steps back. Bottom line, the G10 is better unless you limit the discussion to high ISO shooting.
The G11 sucks. Canon should have increased the sensor size to get performance gains across the board, not short change us like they did just to get better high ISO ability.
Yes and despite all that it’s still the best, or one of the best P&S as the one sentence summaries stated.
“The G11 sucks. Canon should have increased the sensor size to get performance gains across the board, not short change us like they did just to get better high ISO ability.”
Once again David, please stop confusing your own opinions with statements of fact. You are fully entitled to say “I think that G11 sucks” and I would not take an issue with that (other than to think that you are a pretentious twit) but please do not make sweeping statements like “G11 sucks” for which you have neither credibility or knowledge to make.
Anonymous David from the Internet or Bob Atkins.. Hmm.. whose opinion should I trust more…