Taken from NASA website: This true color picture was assembled from Voyager 2 Saturn images obtained Aug. 4 from a distance of 21 million kilometers (13 million miles) on the spacecraft's approach trajectory.
vknight wrote:
The question is what kind of capture would one get with a Big Erwin and one of those new lenses (the 800 DO?) ?
No remember the 5200 IS DO from a week or so ago, the one with the Macro at 120meters, we need that. We could count the hairs on the rabbit on saturn.
I have my fingers crossed.
f/16=325mm lens diameter
f/2.8=1,857mm or 6 feet in diameter. Just think of the lens hood.
As an astronomer I know quite a lot about Saturn. As a wildlife photographer I do encounter quite a number of rabits, but what I don't understand is
Why an 800/5.6 DO?
Am I the only one who would prefer a 600/4 DO? I see more use in that barrel than the 800. Together with a 100-400/4 DO and a 1DSmk3 my bankaccount will be a dead rabbit.
But this would be a pretty exiting package.
Btw I shot Saturn and the Moon very close to eachother a couple of weeks ago, click here
(1Dmk2,500/4, stacked 1.4X and 2.0x, 2exposures stacked to overcome the brightness difference of ~5stops)
JohnnyGCanon wrote:
Is that rabbit's name Harvey? (I bet a large percentage of readers won't understand that question )
Oddly enough, I played Elwood in a production of the show. Since I'm posting: I'll predict a 5d mII with a larger buffer and a (somewhat) increased framerate.
1. You guys are hilarious. The picture with giant rabbit gave me the first ROTFLMAO of the day....
2. I'll tell you what I'd really want: A macro lens with IS. I'd rather have a 100/2.8 IS because it would be more economically feasible than a 180/3.5 IS but I'm willing to go for that one as well if I must.
Or else.....
I'm going to buy a D40 + 105/2.8 VR or a K10D + 150/180 macro lens.
Harvey is a 1950 film based on Mary Chase's Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name, directed by Henry Koster, and starring Jimmy Stewart. Stewart plays a man whose best friend is Harvey, a 6 foot, 3 and a half inch rabbit invisible to almost everyone but himself. Josephine Hull plays his sister.
I don't think it can be called a 3D, because its primary market is full time PJ/sportsshooters. It seems to me that the top camera in that category has to be a one series: 1 LiL' Erwin. Or 1Dv,.Would they put the english word 'sports' on a camera?
Comments here suggest no one has "spilled the beans". But the people who are definite say 1DII replacement. Those of us who say 1DsII replacement, like me, are more insisting that is has to be and should be that camera.
So my opinion is that the Little Erwin has been leaked. Perhaps the rumor trama of photokina has just made people uncomfortable. How can anyone be certain until the announcement? Even marketing materials can be forged.
This is the weirdest 6 months of rumors ever. Kenyan safaris, the Xclock, 'birth of a legend', new lens line, leaks from a Leica author, and now a giant Rabbit perhaps named Erwin. iI nothing comes of this, the Canon people at PMA better be ready to do some 'xplainin. Or have Rabbit Erwin in the booth to distract their customers.
Edited by dcmiller on Feb 16, 2007 at 06:39 AM GMT
If Canon disappoints again, we need to stop complaining and take action. I'm thinking what I'm sure many of you are thinking - trans gender hookers. We hire a very attractive group of these people and send them to seduce the Canon employees at PMA. Their assignment is to first get information, and then fully document their encounter with photos.
Viva Las Vegas
Peterdenh wrote:
As an astronomer I know quite a lot about Saturn. As a wildlife photographer I do encounter quite a number of rabits, but what I don't understand is
Why an 800/5.6 DO?
Am I the only one who would prefer a 600/4 DO? I see more use in that barrel than the 800. Together with a 100-400/4 DO and a 1DSmk3 my bankaccount will be a dead rabbit.
But this would be a pretty exiting package.
Btw I shot Saturn and the Moon very close to eachother a couple of weeks ago, click here
(1Dmk2,500/4, stacked 1.4X and 2.0x, 2exposures stacked to overcome the brightness difference of ~5stops)
I stopped by my local brick and mortar store last night on the way home from work. This is a well respected pro camera shop in St. Louis Missouri (Schillers). I asked the guy who waited on me if they had heard any rumors about what was coming from Canon for PMA. He said that he heard that they would not be unveiling any new DSLRs before August. He then said that he never believes the rumors until they are facts (including this one).
I sincerely hope he is wrong. I am looking for a FF camera (that works with my existing Canon lenses) with 1 series type AF in the $4k (or less) range.
So why isn't Canon hasn't made telescopes? Seems like it would be an easy product line for them to add and who would not want an 8" Canon 2000mm Schmitt Cassegrain Telescope? Could be the birth of a new legend. Plus it would useful for finding bunnies on Saturn.
Peterdenh wrote:
...I shot Saturn and the Moon very close to eachother a couple of weeks ago, click here
(1Dmk2,500/4, stacked 1.4X and 2.0x, 2exposures stacked to overcome the brightness difference of ~5stops)
