OK, here it is, what we have all been waiting for...... I got it straight from a psychic, that purportedly does nothing all day long, but watch ESPN. There will be a 24,35,50 and 85L, all F2 aperatures and much smaller than their 1.2 and 1.4 counter parts. The 5D will get weather seals, mirror lock up button, dust shaker and more DR. The 40D will be 10 mp, as will the1D3, both with a dust shaker, Cmos 3 sensor and nothing else. There will be a 100-400 F4LIS for a lot of money and Canon will finally admit and appologize for their dysfunctional 50 1.2L and say they are working on a fix.
Edited by cactusclay on Feb 20, 2007 at 10:23 AM GMT
eosfun wrote:
These Lexar 300x speed cards with UDMA will be of good use with the new camera. EOSfun comes with UDMA fun.
Interesting.
How's Lexar doing? according to Tweakers.nl it's not going well with Sandisk (which I use) and they are lowering the prices 40% and fire over 200 employees. That's not so funny for these people, but apparently SD needs to do something to get more sales.
The new machines would need faster and larger cards.
You guys are so ridiculous with your posts about your research on whether or not a poster has potential to be valid in their remarks towards new equipment. Seriously....what do you do for a living because clearly you have more time on your hands than I do, and I would like to free up my schedule a bit more.
Someone said that "Ridiculousness is in the eye of the beholder" and I agree.
This thread and all the endless pages are the most exciting thing that's happened on FM since I've had the pleasure of membership. An ever continuing saga of truths, half-truths, wishes, lamentations, lies, fiction, jubilation, resignation, anger, apathy, enlightenment, excitement, etc. has zoomed across these pages with an ever increasing velocity that will only stop with a firm announcement and then only if complete.
To call this thread "Ridiculous" is to not understand the zeal of a photographer in his/her constant search for the "truth" wherever it may lie and to hold it aloft and cry "I told you so!" in jubilation!
Koivulehto wrote:
There are plenty of things the family can do during vacations without travelling abroad each year, like hiking in home country. But my wife has her own job, and she is in practice saving for the holiday trips. However, we haven't travelled abroad with the whole family since 2005 for other reasons, and won't travel this year either.
My point is that for some of the hobbyists, even a very high price lens every 5 to 10 years might be financially possible to buy, even if it makes no financial sense to justify the purchase.
For at least 10% of American households with the highest net worth buying lenses of this value is a matter of just writing the check without a lot of further considerations. The top 10% have $1,522,000 in net worth by their 60's. They have $1,180,000 in their 50's and $1,297,000 in their 40's. The top 5% have $3,075,000 in their 60's, $2,223,000 in their 50's and $1,297,000 in their 40's. With roughly 140,000,000 US households what percentage of households does Canon need to sell this lens to in order to get a ROI? I don't think it is a problem.
This doesn't even factor in sales outside the US. Petrodollars are flowing right now even muscling out flows from Asia. What about London Financial services bonus checks? There are lots of buyers out there is my point.
How's Lexar doing? according to Tweakers.nl it's not going well with Sandisk (which I use) and they are lowering the prices 40% and fire over 200 employees. That's not so funny for these people, but apparently SD needs to do something to get more sales.
The new machines would need faster and larger cards.
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Sandisk does seem to make the most reliable flash memory units right now. But their management I question. They've really mislead analysts to pump the stock in my opinion and relied to a large extent on H1B labor to uncut local Silicon Valley wages when thousands of high quality engineers where unemployed locally.
How's Lexar doing? according to Tweakers.nl it's not going well with Sandisk (which I use) and they are lowering the prices 40% and fire over 200 employees. That's not so funny for these people, but apparently SD needs to do something to get more sales.
The new machines would need faster and larger cards.
Ooooh, here's a bit of fluff to add to the pile - I just called Hunt's Photo to speak with Gary Farber, I want to be on his wait list for a presumed 1D3....Gary was out, but an older sounding gentleman chided me "And you are looking for the Canon?"
Me - "Yes, the 1D3 which I presume is coming"
OG - "When do you think it is coming?"
Me - "Next month PMA announcement"
OG - "So you think there is a new 1D next month?"
Me - "Well, it seems like the rumors are pointing to that, but I think the real excitement at Canon is going to be a new Medium Format camera"
OG - "Yes"
and end of conversation. Means exactly nothing, don't take it to the bank, apply salt, etc. Just kinda fun to experience. I am reminded that Jerry Ward, the Canon Pro Market Rep for SouthWest, last Nov. would only say - and said it repeatedly - "The camera that is coming is not the camera anyone expects" when pressed about the likelyhood of a 1Ds3....
The rumours about a dynamic crop mode are sure interesting.
One thing I would find handy would be a lower resolution, perhaps higher framerate shot from the same sensor. My reasons behind this is I don't necessarily need all 22 megapixels (or 16 from the 1Ds II, for that matter) but still want to post-process in RAW. If I could shoot in RAW at, say, 8 megapixel, this will increase my card space and decrease the amount of processing time. I see no reason why this can't be done in specialised ASIC hardware with the name "DIGIC III" printed on it....
hydrotoast wrote:
So do you load each page individually or do it the quick way by pressing the print post button and loading them all as one page then scroll down
Edited by hydrotoast on Feb 20, 2007 at 06:55 AM GMT
Wow...you're killin' me. I've been doing it the old fashioned way, one page at a time.
A great tip indeed. "What print post button?" was my first reaction as well. Reminds me of the Space Balls film with the perky female voice "Thank you for pressing the self destruction button" and then much later something like "You have one minute to press the cancel button".
I saved the current 327 page thread in my hard disk (only 4 MB or so) and definitely will not print it on paper. Now it was easy to find what the rabbit and Saturn references are.
In current Canon DSLRs there is only one (or a few) cross point AF detector spots, and the rest are not equally good (I haven't taken the trouble of reading it any better). 19 cross ones would be a major improvement for AF.
Johnny Blood wrote:
And the other AF points only measure horizontal contrast?
There are 2 types of AF points one oriented vertically and the other oriented horizontally. The vertical point reads horizontal contrast and the horizontal point reads vertical contrast.
The "cross type" uses a horizontal and vertical point in combination.
