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jcolwell wrote:
Did you ever wonder why Canon is making Mark II versions of many of its very best lenses?
No. ;-)
On another topic...
Since the word "revolutionary" seems to be coming up a lot in this thread... It is, almost by definition, impossible for a new "version" of something to be "revolutionary." I think that "evolutionary" is more of what we are looking for - keeping the good features, improving things where possible and desirable, and adding a few new ones as appropriate.
Anyone who reads my posts knows that I think the 5D2 is a great performer and that I can produce photographic prints of high quality using this camera. But I can think of ways that Canon could make it even better (without suggesting that a 5-series camera should be a 1-series camera), including some of those mentioned here. (As others have mentioned, there are clearly ways that Canon could improve the AF system by incorporating features found in more recent cameras.)
FWIW, I tend to think that that Canon will have little choice but to introduce some camera with a larger number of photo sites. While some of the mythical specs for the rumored "5D3" suggest virtually the same image dimensions as on the 5D2, and offer some reasons for this, in a world with competing cameras with 30+ MP, that will be a difficult marketing position to maintain. That said, there are other ways that Canon could address this concern besides offering a higher pixel-count "5D3."
We'll see.
By the way, "revolutionary" or close to it changes would be things like a new sensor format, some radical departure from the traditional SLR-based design, a new sensor technology, etc. I don't have any proof that any of these are about to occur.
Dan
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