eosfun wrote:
5DIII? What is that? This is what the Canon rep answered me: "Canon has high expectations of the new sensor" , "Canon will stay the leading company in the enthusiast and semi pro D-SLR market segment" "landscape photographers, wedding professionals and other demanding users of our high res full frame cameras wiil appreciate the compact size and features known from the 7D and 5DmkII camera and the new sensor performance". "This Canon camera is high performance for high expectation. It is Canon's update to the wildly popular full frame EOS 5DmkII and it's better than ever". "Canon advanced professionals will appreciate the way we added in camera image processing to reduce steps in the workflow of a pro", #just like Picture Style? my thought# "bla bla bla.....," "blablabla, is dit komkommer 't lijkt wel sla, bla bla, bla" The camera will be EOSfun to many, but I'll stay with my 1DsmkIII's for a while. That is probably the most important hint I can give now ...Show more →
Nice, eosfun but my netherlands knoledge is not that good. What does "is dit komkommer 't lijkt wel sla" mean?
eosfun wrote:
The camera will be EOSfun to many, but I'll stay with my 1DsmkIII's for a while. That is probably the most important hint I can give now
Thanks, eosfun, this is very good info.
I feel that I'll be one of these many that will have lots of EOSfun with 'just' 18mp .
Hopefully Canon won't jack up the price too much, though.
Ralph, it means: "blablabla is this cucumber? it tastes like lettuce" and it is from a 30 year old song sung in Dutch 'the Hague' city dialect / slang with the title "blablabla" on a barbecue party with the kind of nonsense talk when you meet people and nothing meaningful is being said. That Canon rep with his marketing blabla made me think of it.
Even if you can't understand this Dutch, the language we all understand is the universal language of EOSfun
Forget the swivel screen....we've all seen the pictures of a 5D size FF camera in the hands of the japanese guy. It's real! It does not have swivel screen people!!
I am not a video guy so couldn't care less for that. My tripod work is based on histogram rather that picture on screen, so thank you canon, gime that great high performance 18mp sensor you have on a compact body plus the 7D AF and leave everything else as it is!
Whether EOSfun will remain for many will have to do with what the competitor will introduce at approximately the same time. If Canon "only" gives the new camera an 18MP sensor, regardless whether it is a new and improved sensor while the other side introduces a 36MP sensor in the form of a D800, a lot of folks will move in drove to the other side. Again, just the mere idea of doubling the MP in the sensor will be enough to trigger a mass exodus. The quality of the sensor, whether is it a 12-bit or 14-bit or true 16-bit with the dynamic range value, etc. will be evaluated later. If this would be the case, Canon would take on old Nikon's philosophy and vice versa. Time will tell, for sure.
eosfun wrote:
Ralph, it means: "blablabla is this cucumber? it tastes like lettuce" and it is from a 30 year old song sung in Dutch 'the Hague' city dialect / slang with the title "blablabla" on a barbecue party with the kind of nonsense talk when you meet people and nothing meaningful is being said. That Canon rep with his marketing blabla made me think of it.
Even if you can't understand this Dutch, the language we all understand is the universal language of EOSfun
the translation software did me give nearly the same! I thought it was "bullsh..! I did not know this song. Thanks for the link. Must have been your middle ages, while I have been a young boy
Hell! The best woman of all opened to me, I will die with 83. That means only another 32 years of EOSfun. Only three more 1D X bodies based on shutter cycles and my average pictures I take over one year. Even if it looks like they created my dream camera now, I guess I am not Canons dream user ...
But to get back to the thread: One question should be permitted. If those Canon guys are that sure, they got the best sensor, why do they not start to show any pictures bigger than a stamp?
safcraft wrote:
Forget the swivel screen....we've all seen the pictures of a 5D size FF camera in the hands of the japanese guy. It's real! It does not have swivel screen people!!
I am not a video guy so couldn't care less for that. My tripod work is based on histogram rather that picture on screen, so thank you canon, gime that great high performance 18mp sensor you have on a compact body plus the 7D AF and leave everything else as it is!
Yes, the odds are against it.
Live view is not only for video or checking your pictures in playback mode.
It's a necessity for landscape, product, and architecture photography when coupled with any of Canon's tilt and shift lenses (Specially when tilting the focal plane)...Also LCDs get warm and that affects noise in high temperature environments. Moving it away from the camera could help in that regard.
I know what you are saying guys. This is what I was hoping for since Canon showed us this 4K concept (for those who forgot, see this Engadget topic on the 4K). Canon showed us more innovations last year, but the economical tide and the lack of really threatening competition so far as well as the lack of courage and vision I see in the current Canon management are the reasons why we haven't seen very interesting innovations from Canon lately. They have a lot of technology to give us better EOSfun, but Canon decided the market is not yet ready for it. A 50MP sensor, new hybrid camera technology, backlit sensors, super compact zooms, and a new AF mechanism, it's all in their patent portfolio. I guess we'll have to wait until some new product in the market eats agressively in Canon's core business
Ah, someone asked me via PM how the rate button works. Well, it's not different from the zoom button: you press the loupe button and turn the wheel clockwise or the other way around and you'll zoom in or zoom out to check focus and other image details. Well, do the same with the rate button: press it and turn the wheel, you get the idea. what do you think happens? You believe it's meant to rate your lens I have said probably more than I should, but I guess now that an official Canon employee demonstrated how zooming on the back LCD works I am allowed to ask you a question, isn't it? Have EOSfun
I couldn't care less about an articulating screen.
There's a few pros to it and very few cons to it. The cons are arguably increased cost, and less arguably, another part to be damaged/go wrong.
The cons are far outweighed by the pros though. For someone like me, I'd "have" it on my camera, and probably not use it. Thus, I wouldn't be affected by the cons unless something went wrong with the cabling in it or something similar.
If it didn't add significantly to the cost (and I really don't think it would), I don't see any reason to not like an articulating screen. My old G power shots had them, and I didn't mind them. I just always had it so the LCD was pointing out, with the screen "in" the camera, rather than "out". It never adversely affected me owning one.
AaronNegro wrote:
On the other hand a swivel screen is a weak point and affects durability. I wonder how Olympus made it for the E3/E5 to be so well built.
I hope the sensor is a leap forward and it does make the 5DII to go for peanuts in the 2nd hand market
If it's 18MP, the 5DII just might hold it's value for awhile. I could see some wanting it just for the extra 3MP.
I'd rather have a wireless connected version of " target="_blank" rel="nofollow">DSLR controller instead of the USB version that I now use for my Android Phone and Galaxy Tab. That would be my dream version of the articulating screen. But it's not in this camera. Sorry, no EOSfun
eosfun wrote:
Ah, someone asked me via PM how the rate button works. Well, it's not different from the zoom button: you press the loupe button and turn the wheel clockwise or the other way around and you'll zoom in or zoom out to check focus and other image details. Well, do the same with the rate button: press it and turn the wheel, you get the idea. what do you think happens? You believe it's meant to rate your lens I have said probably more than I should, but I guess now that an official Canon employee demonstrated how zooming on the back LCD works I am allowed to ask you a question, isn't it? Have EOSfun ...Show more →
This is what the Canon rep answered me: "Canon has high expectations of the new sensor" , "Canon will stay the leading company in the enthusiast and semi pro D-SLR market segment" "landscape photographers, wedding professionals and other demanding users of our high res full frame cameras wiil appreciate the compact size and features known from the 7D and 5DmkII camera and the new sensor performance". "This Canon camera is high performance for high expectation. It is Canon's update to the wildly popular full frame EOS 5DmkII and it's better than ever". "Canon advanced
#just like Picture Style? my thought# "bla bla bla.....," "blablabla, is dit komkommer 't lijkt wel sla, bla bla, bla" 
but my netherlands knoledge is not that good. What does "is dit komkommer 't lijkt wel sla" mean? 
