One of the oldest Canon dealers in Mexico City hosted a Canon Day yesterday, I had a chance to spend quite a bit of time with a Technical guy and he indicated that -even though he couldn't confirm anything- the 1Ds Mk III was scheduled for an October 1st release and the prototype with the best chance of making it to production had a 22 MP sensor. He was not a sales rep, so I think there's a good chance he could be right.

I also saw, with my own eyes, a 13-52 mm f/1.8 Canon lens. Unfortunately it was not an EOS mount, but some sort of weird Video Capture camera that had a CCD sensor.

Ignacio

IFeito wrote:
I also saw, with my own eyes, a 13-52 mm f/1.8 Canon lens. Unfortunately it was not an EOS mount, but some sort of weird Video Capture camera that had a CCD sensor.
Ignacio

That's nothing unusual. Most video lenses are very wide with very large apertures. Take a Canon 7.6-168mm 2/3" video lens. It is f1.8 from 7.6mm to 118m. A 1/2" lens can be 6.7-89mm f/1.4.

Which dealer was it, Ignacio, if you don't mind my asking? I live in Mexico City and am always on the look-out for an upper-end camera store/dealer.

Also, off topic, but do you know of anywhere locally where I could find IT-8 targets - both printed and transparency - in Mexico City?

video lenses don't need the same resolution as still camera lenses and are probably not worth using on a still camera even if you could attach one. Also, the sensor on the video camera is smaller than the still camera sensor and so the lens image circle would be too small for the dSLR.

As for the 1Ds3, he could be right but you won't know until it is announced, so forget it.

Eyeball wrote:
Which dealer was it, Ignacio, if you don't mind my asking? I live in Mexico City and am always on the look-out for an upper-end camera store/dealer.

yeah, i kinda want to know this too. It's hard to find lenses at decent prices here

Sweet... Oct 1 release.
So what, early December they'll actually ship, with each country being allotted 10, in which to divide amongst the best retailers (no retailer getting more than 2). :P

I'm moving to Finland to up my changes of getting one!

IFeito wrote:
One of the oldest Canon dealers in Mexico City hosted a Canon Day yesterday, I had a chance to spend quite a bit of time with a Technical guy and he indicated that -even though he couldn't confirm anything- the 1Ds Mk III was scheduled for an October 1st release and the prototype with the best chance of making it to production had a 22 MP sensor

This is the same rumor that's been around for almost 2 years now. The 22MP sensor story gets repeated over and over, and while possible, who the heck knows if it will ever happen.

The October announcement sounds so-so too. If the camera is still in the prototype stage, I don't think we're going to see it anytime soon. Previous rumors had a November announcement/release, but as I said, who the heck knows....

So by the time they release the 22MB mark III and we (hopefully) acquire a copy there will be a rumor for a 30MB Mark III N or Mark IV which will make us wish it and "depreciate" our present 22MB beast which we are already wishing !!!

Crazy !!!

Jaime
www.jmraso.com

From what I recall, the Canon XL-2 video camera has a 7x crop on 35mm lenses, so having a 7-XXmm lens isn't unusual. Same as digital P&S lenses.

The 22MP 1Ds Mark iii makes a lot of sense if you consider the 1D. The 1D3 has a sensor with 1.25 times the number of pixels as the 1D2 but by reducing the spacing, and the gap between photosites, Canon has managed to keep the size of individual photosites the same. Multiply the 17MP of the 1Ds2 by 1.25 and you have just about 22MP. The trick of keeping the same size photosite suggests that there will be no increase in noise.

But. but omg. Canon will never do this, it will take away sales from the 1dsmkII!!

IFeito wrote:
I also saw, with my own eyes, a 13-52 mm f/1.8 Canon lens. Unfortunately it was not an EOS mount, but some sort of weird Video Capture camera that had a CCD sensor.



I'll settle for a 13-52 mm f/2.8 Canon lens in the EF mount.....