Bdog

Video It's in French, but you get the idea... and the speed of this thing!

http://www.focus-numerique.com/news_id-38.html

Billiam

That's no camera, that's an effin' machine gun!

srika

WTFBBQ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

srika

seriously you might get arrested with that thing...

Bdog

srika

why do i want this camera so badly

Bdog

Click here http://web.canon.jp/Imaging/eos1dm3/# Go To Flash Site, then Play Sound and go to Shooting and see what this thing has to offer!

jupitersolo

Because it's new, neat and slick. And you're just like the rest of us. I can't wait until I'm worthy of buying a camera like this.

jupitersolo

When did Adobe buy Flash??

Bdog

Adobe acquired Macromedia back in 2005-2006.

fdl

dam, my xti lcd suddenly seems small.

Bdog

My XT just plain sucks now!

cl_jay

Anyone know where to sell a kidney?

srika

I wonder what the folks over at Nikon are thinking..

Mizouse

geez, that thing sounds crazy at 10fps, and i wonder how often people are going to use the live preview option

srika

^^ yea.. manually focusing on an LCD?? even though it does have 5x and 10x zoom on the LCD in that mode, I still think it would be tedious and not 100% reliable. Well that sounds kinda silly, what I mean is, oh you know what I mean.

Billiam

Anyone seen any pricing info about the new 16-35/2.8 II? I have unfounded fears that it's going to be in the $1,500 - $1,800 range at a minimum.

wndrlst

If it's free...

Now that's my kind of registry! Who needs dinnerware, really?



If I keep reading about this, I'm going to have to move to England & change my name to Ellie.

Mizouse

paper plates FTW!

dom

srika

hahaha... funny article. says the Mark III is Canon's "answer" to the D40, D80, and D200. Yeah, umm. ok. dat b sum good crack.

http://news.com.com/2100-1041_3-6161271.html

srika

hmm kinda unclear but it sounds like Canon may have said the Mark III was an "answer" to those 3 Nikons in their press release.. but that just doesn't make much sense. Anyway... this was a good quote from the article, I thought:

Roadmaster

I've been shooting an original 1D for about a year now and still love the workflow of the smaller images.

What is is going to do is push the price of the MKIIN down a little and even more so on the MKII which is what I will buy to accompany the original 1 in my bag.

Awesome specs never the less.

moeronn

Yes, the shots of the sprinters crossing the finishline and the mentally unstable celebrities shaving their heads.

Sounds like an amazing camera, but well out of my league. Maybe in 5 years or so, the price point of FF SLRs will allow me to consider one.

ChodTheWacko

For some things, the more fps, the better.
If you are shooting horses racing, for example, the 'money shots' are the ones
where all four hooves are in the air. It's definitely overkill for the vast majority of
us. How many of you shoot with burst mode, and still feel it's too slow for you?

If you need that sort of burst, you need to first be in the right place and be ready to shoot at the right time. It requires a lot of dedication just to get the latter 2.

- Frank

Dan Martin

The 14-bit sensor is the biggest news for me. 16,000 levels for each color vs. 4,000 is an enormous improvement. One shot HDR.

moeronn

This was something I was just going over in my head. At what point is even a shutter unnecessary? Since the censors are digital/electronic, they could record info over time (similar to a movie) and the photographer could decide what "snapshot" of time they want to use. Obviously, you wouldn't record continuously, but you could record for 2 seconds and use .01 seconds at 1.22 seconds in. This would make editing/selecting times much more tedious, but in theory, you would be able to always select the best exposure times.

Street Spirit

I understood it. They're basically talking about everything you've already read. And that Dan should get me one as a wedding gift!

Dan Martin

I think that would be pretty tedious to edit and it would consume a lot of memory, unless of course you wanted to spend a few minutes for each capture after you shot it to look for the best frame, then delete the rest. Also, you'd have a hard time doing that for longer exposures where you were trying to capture motion blur, or just to expose a dark scene.

Sony has a high resolution video sensor coming out soon that would do mostly what you're thinking of: http://www.dpreview.com/news/0702/07...hspeedcmos.asp

srika

do you mean like, editing the exposure of each pixel? that would be fun!! not.

moeronn

Not that extreme. Maybe the 2 seconds was a bit extreme. The main idea was to be able to adjust the exposure time somewhat to be sure that enough light was caught. Then you could back out the light in some areas. As Dan mentioned - like a 1 shot HDR, but with a little (okay, a lot) more info and control.

ChodTheWacko

That's a pretty interesting point.

Actually, do DSRS even have shutters?
Would you even need a shutter for a DSLR anyway? What's the point?

Let's make a pseudo example, with a tape recorder, recording sound.
With film, where the recording material is continuously recording, you
need the shutter (say a soundproof dome) over the recorder.

Then if you want say, .1 seconds of recording, you open the dome/shutter for .1 second, and close it.


With digital, that's kinda pointless. It's like having a remote control to first
push record on the recorder, then you open the dome for .1 second, then
close the dome, then hit stop on the recorder.

The dome is now kinda pointless. You should just start the recorder and stop it .1 seconds later. Unless I'm just missing something here?

- Frank

MrChad

Well you can own a 1D mkIII for $3999 and have a camera for a lifetime or spend $2999 on a really good hooker in Vegas and $999 on a Rebel XTi and have a lifetime of great photos from one night, I promise no one will care what camera was used for the photos, -- Just kidding.


As others have said I'm most excited the 30D I purchased during rebate season is still good, though I'm ticked about my 6 mo' old flash being kicked to the curb. JR has the new 580EX-II for $499 pre-order, that's just flipping insane for weather sealing. He11 I thought the 580EX was $80 too much over the old 550EX, I mean I can't tell the exposures apart one flipping bit and how long have pro's been using a non-weather sealed flash for that matter -- who the flip is using a flash in the rain, unless you really like the look of raindrops in your sports photo? And I've never had sand kill my flash either -- this may be the greatest money making scam from Canon ever, I mean even the off shoe cord I've had for years is now being replaced at a price higher of course.

As cool as the new 1D is, I think I'll wait to see what trickles down to the xxD line next. And my collection already has sRAW, it's called using a D30

What I really love about the live preview mode, what if...and hear me out....this means a Rebel body could have a flip out LCD like the old G6? Now that would be a fun 2nd body to have for all kinds of uses.

And I'm very pumped about the Auto ISO mode (Finally!!!) that would rock on the lower models one day.

If anyone is feeling inadequite about your 30D, print the 20D and 30D white papers out and you will realize they are some pretty special cameras in their own rights, and darn near a bargain at $1000!!

Oh and Adorama has Canon refurb 20D for $650!!!! 1D mk IIN for $2400 too. XT's for $399.

Just a thought...

srika

Let it all out man..

$500 for a flash good god.. It does recharge substantially faster than the old one too, does it not. I guess you could look at the extra $120-odd on top of the 580 as paying for a faster charging system?

lol on the D30's sRAW..

MrChad

Yeah, but those recycle times are based on a full power discharge, that is so uncommon to do. You'd need to be taking shots of black bear in a cave to use that

Besides the opt. batt. pack usually sped up the flash enough -- oh wait we have new one of those too don't we? I've shot with the 420EX, 550EX, and now the 580EX I ain't upgrading AGAIN this is flipping insane, you can only pimp a flash so much.

And then the 16-35mm update? I'd quickly order a 16-35mm/2.8L mk I while I still could if you needed. A. Odds are if you shoot full frame it's an occasional lens, 2. if you shoot crop factor when would the corners ever matter, and 3. 77mm filters are way cheaper then 82mm B+W anything OMG!!! What's that B+W slim type MRC Circ. Pol. going to cost!!! 4. It's going to save you $400 easy. If Karl Grobl can make a living with a 16-35mm mk I daily -- you sure as he11 can get buy with your hobby lens being the meager poor IQ mk 1 for $400 less, you'll need that money for your weather sealed flash now any how...

I had something that ate money like this once too, I think it was a car hobby -- oh wait?

LOL, all joking aside the 1D mk III is very cool, the problem is my 30D takes better photos then ANY film body I ever had with any film. I think for the short term I'll save the 3g's until the 40D with Auto ISO or 7D with 5fps shows up for way less coin. I have the will power...and a very cheap plane ticket to Vegas -- Jusk kidding again.

MrChad

Yeah, but those recycle times are based on a full power discharge, that is so uncommon to do. You'd need to be taking shots of black bear in a cave to use that

Besides the opt. batt. pack usually sped up the flash enough -- oh wait we have new one of those too don't we? I've shot with the 420EX, 550EX, and now the 580EX I ain't upgrading AGAIN this is flipping insane, you can only pimp a flash so much.

And then the 16-35mm update? I'd quickly order a 16-35mm/2.8L mk I while I still could if you needed. A. Odds are if you shoot full frame it's an occasional lens, 2. if you shoot crop factor when would the corners ever matter, and 3. 77mm filters are way cheaper then 82mm B+W anything OMG!!! What's that B+W slim type MRC Circ. Pol. going to cost!!! 4. It's going to save you $400 easy. If Karl Grobl can make a living with a 16-35mm mk I daily -- you sure as he11 can get buy with your hobby lens being the meager poor IQ mk 1 for $400 less, you'll need that money for your weather sealed flash now any how...

I had something that ate money like this once too, I think it was a car hobby -- oh wait?

LOL, all joking aside the 1D mk III is very cool, the problem is my 30D takes better photos then ANY film body I ever had with any film. I think for the short term I'll save the 3g's until the 40D with Auto ISO or 7D with 5fps shows up for way less coin. I have the will power...and a very cheap plane ticket to Vegas -- Jusk kidding again.

jupitersolo

http://www.engadget.com/photos/hands...mark-iii-dslr/

With some of the pictures they posted, too bad the didn't use a better camera. Here's one showing the gusts.

MrChad

I don't follow, what's wrong with the current switch to Li-Ion battery power? I personally have been wanting that for years in a 1D body. And the current cell design is a proven pro-build type unit as a similiar type has seen duty in the Nikon D2 line.

Plus it cuts massive amounts of bulk from the body which is always a good thing.

srika

a review..

http://www.prophotohome.com/forum/pr...ll-review.html

srika

heres a sample image from the article that is resized to 800px and has one step of sharpening.