I have a 1ds3. I'll get a 5D2 for a backup and situations where I want the higher ISO but dont need to worry as much about the weather sealing, AF accuracy.
I'm not peeved at all, I knew a newer camera would come out after I bought mine, and I'll know that about the 5D when I get one.
These arent baseball cards you know... digital cameras only depreciate. Use when you have them, earn some money back, sell them when you must upgrade, at a loss and view the loss as a rental fee. Thats tech hardware. Not much more to it than that.
Richie S wrote:
Is it me or every time Canon releases a camera these days you get the feeling you're being shorted.
It'll be great I'm sure, and we'll all be raving about the IQ soon enough.... but..... you know, there's never the idea that Canon are giving you the best they can deliver at a price point - just the least they can get away with giving you.
(where can I pre-order)
Yeah I will buy one but I know what you mean.
I have to admit that on the weather sealing, which I would like, as we know doesn't exist on the 5 but mine has been used in heavy rains in China and on the dusty plains in Tibet and came through fine. I would still like the weather seal though. I don't buy the pro cameras because for my work they are too big and heavy.
question though: If you were given THAT AF layout, BUT it could focus on anything (even in absolute darkness) and it is at the same price point (i've heard of 1d3 and 1ds3 owners claiming they could AF at pitch darkness), would you still buy it?
Can someone mirror the sample videos somewhere in the US? The canon.jp website is horridly slow.
Also, re: specs - I was hoping they would release something that would just trounce Nikon. Unfortunately, it seems that the D700 is still a very attractive package. I have a 30D and ~2.5k in glass, so I probably won't be switching any time soon; however, I really really want Canon to step up the plate and kick some ass.
50d = af micro adjust? 5d mkII? Not so much.. why?
"upgraded weather sealing" means?
can't wait for the first hands on previews I suspect and hope that the image quality and noise/iso-quality will be great! I hope that improved weather sealing means that I can take it with me a few places i did not dare bring my 30d :P
Also, the HD video capture feature is interesting...I could see uses for it, and it could certainly be quite neat for shallow DOF / low light fun. I have 2 questions though:
1) Recording time - 4GB will be quickly reached @ 1920x1080x30fpsx8bits (or whatever)...are we looking at an actual max clip time of 10-15 mins, as opposed to 30?
2) Shutter - I am assuming the shutter does not actuate during video recording? (I know nothing about video, sorry). Do they employ some sort of "digital shutter"?
Yohan Pamudji wrote:
Yep. No answer to the D700. Too bad.
yeah i guess canon is just never gonna do it.
not sure they get it since now some comments one guy told me about their thoughts about this, which i didnt believe then, are true.
i might still have given it a try but the release date is not until....
the entire darn fall sports season is totally over.
oh well i surely wont be tempted to guinea pig it now.
simply arrives way too late to be of any use for me
which is in some ways a worse thing than 4 fps, since you can live with that, but not being out means 0 fps and that doesn't exactly work .
even a month earlier release woulda caught enough of the sports season to tempt me (and perhaps all the others doing action). Oh well. gotta reset my sites on just living with my 40D for now or temporarily giving the 50D a try. Woulda loved to see the gapless FF pull off ISO3200 sports this fall though on those terribly lit fields.
i've always wondered the timing of these photokidna releases since they always arrive too late to catch the fall leaf peeping shooting and the entire fall sports season and the entire summer travel season. always seemed like a very weird time to release cameras.
maybe i'll give it a look at the start of february, unless it ends up arriving early. i think the 40D did end up coming out almost a month earlier than the first press release hinted at.
the sensor should be amazing, the movie mode is really cool.
the other specs are either very poor or perhaps poor and nothing like the text was promising on the japanese site or the big build up and shows nothing about them changing strategy with bodies to match nikon.
not that the D700 doesnt have one big issue itself and that is that at 12MP and FF you do lose lots of reach which can be rough for sports since a 400 2.8 costs waayyyyy more than a 300 2.8. so for the amateur but very serious action photographer none of the options are quite there, oh well.
(9+6 AF is action potentially greaty for action since all you need is for teh assist to be packed near the middle, the question is is it a sad digic driven AF of the xxD and 5D or did they give it an AF chip so it can use the points effectively? it could be anywhere from very disappointing to truly excellent, depending)
(4fps is too slow to really grab multiple caps from a singel action set, 5 is absolute minimum and 6.5 really).
it should be a really fabulous non-action cam though.
and aside from rather weak in the buffer and fps, if the AF has been much tuned up, could be a liveable 'poor'-man's action cam of sorts.
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