I recall that Canon has been in talks with Apple and Technicolor this past year, so my money is on a technical/equipment partnership, not an affiliation with a specific studio (which would ultimately be a financial deadend). If these three can develop the cameras, the computing, and the PP/distribution options, the sky is the limit for a new imaging partnership.
Since it is a Canon announcement, it is obviously Canon equipment being unveiled.
In other news, apparently DigitalRev received an invite to a Canon "pro" product launch on the 22nd... http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=digitalrev
Perhaps just printers (according to CR)
skibum5 wrote:
i suppose the year end write off for some pros
i still can't say that i really recall anyone getting DSLRs much around Christmas, of everyone I've seen get one, only a small percentage got them then
Well, I got my 1Ds, 1Ds3 and 5D2 just before Xmas - because that's when they became available; I would just as well gotten them in January or June or whenever
Based on the questions I saw in a survey they sent me the other day, I would say they're coming out with a mirrorless, small camera with interchangeble lenses.
Or a 32MP 1Ds4 with two Digic Vs that can process that to 4K video on the fly. Canon: To everyone who is cheaping out buying our lowly 5D2 to shoot movies, please buy this super expensive one and get 4K video off the ground to revive the Japanese electronics industry
Cementjungle wrote:
Based on the questions I saw in a survey they sent me the other day, I would say they're coming out with a mirrorless, small camera with interchangeble lenses.
Almost inevitably so, but that doesn't sound like a product line that would warrant a Hollywood event. The circumstances makes it seem more like a digital cinema-related announcement...which could also mean one or more top-of-the-line full frame still cameras with 4K video capabilities.
There is a discussion of Digic V on another thread, purported to have 6x the throughput of Digic IV. That kind of performance bump is not really necessary for still capture, and what better way to use such throughput than for 4K video?
Cementjungle wrote:
Based on the questions I saw in a survey they sent me the other day, I would say they're coming out with a mirrorless, small camera with interchangeble lenses.
I got that survey, too. But I suspect that if they'd already developed such a system, they wouldn't be doing such a survey now. I'd interpret it as meaning that they're in the process now of evaluating whether or not they want to enter that market.
Ernie Aubert wrote:
I got that survey, too. But I suspect that if they'd already developed such a system, they wouldn't be doing such a survey now. I'd interpret it as meaning that they're in the process now of evaluating whether or not they want to enter that market.
In light of Nikon's mirrorless announcement I'd bet the survey was the result of Canon getting early wind of that annoucement and trying to gauge the impact of Nikon's new cameras on the market (as opposed to being part of Canon's own plans for a new product line.)
Well....by that comparison I'd venture to say the majority of professionals I know fall into the pro-sumer category when compared to high end movie and commercial production just by budget circumstance. So this is an opening of 4K for the rest of us . Is Final Cut X 4K capable?
Ziffl3 wrote:
since we are talking 4K .... the cinema world is all ready at 4K.
but funny thing ....with the screens being perforated you can not really see a difference.
Updates to the 1DsMkIII and the 5D II hardly qualify as historic. Look for a motion pic camera or/and a high quality mirrorless camera - probably FF. If it isn't either of them it is probably a new fax/scanner/copier that wipes your butt for you.
