Jess Edward wrote:
There is always a chance that something someone tells you could be false information. I wasnt at Canon when he saw the camera so I have no way of knowing for 100% sure what he was told. I was just relaying the information he gave me. It is a rumor thread after all.
There is a chance that all of the specs people have been giving in this thread arent real. Does that mean they shouldnt have posted either?
Edited by Jess Edward on Sep 11, 2008 at 05:56 PM GMT
Edited by Jess Edward on Sep 11, 2008 at 05:56 PM GMT
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of course there is a chance that all the rumors in this tread are false, but few of those rumors have been attributed to " a friend at canon who just got back from a meeting" (less than a week before the announcement is due) where he was briefed on the camera and "here are the specs"....
brainiac wrote:
No. That's painting. Snapshots are the soul of photography. Look at HCB. Controlling light sucks all the life out of your pictures until they're just painting without love. Being there and catching the moment is the key, whether you shoot 1 frame per second or 50 - it doesn't matter. The best photos are about the subject, not the artist's unique and benevolent vision. A good photographer is just a wormhole enabling a journey through time to a moment that might have been forgotten: http://cyberphotographer.com/5D/simonsinks.jpg
globalkiwi wrote:
I hope you're right about Canon launching a breakthrough but, honestly, it really does seem a bit too much like wishful thinking for me to get too attached to the idea.
What exactly defines "breakthrough" for you? If you're looking for a smaller camera body, you're not going to find it in this series. That would best be suited for the G9 or 50D series.
Edited by Timothy Hughes on Sep 12, 2008 at 01:47 AM GMT
I thought everyone was saying the 12th? But then again, I haven't been able to keep up with the exponential growth of this thread and might have mis-read.
Tim Speciale wrote:
Good lenses are always going to be big, that's called physics, and without any meat to hold onto it the lens is too difficult to hold.
Tim - I used to think the same thing, until I broadened my experience outside of Canon's line-up.
Leica's M lenses are some of the finest optics in the world, and they are very small.
In the SLR world, Olympus (Zuiko) makes many classic high performing lenses (21/2, 21/3.5, 18/3.5, 28/2.8, 40/2, etc) that cast a full image circle on a full-frame DSLR sensor.
There are many other examples as well.
It is possible to design very fine optics with fast/wide apertures and a full-frame image circle in a small package. Canon doesn't do it well, but it can certainly be done.
sorry if its a repost, i can see the EOS clearly now on the site, without any modification to image.. so i guess this would be the 3rd iteration of the flash file
jvarszegi wrote:
ummm the A900 most decidedly does not look better in that comparo
Noise-wise the A900 looks cleaner (after image down-scaling).
Besides, yes the rendering is not really good.
Maybe (hopefully) a firmware issue that'll be fixed before the camera hits the shelves...
No. That's painting. Snapshots are the soul of photography. Look at HCB. Controlling light sucks all the life out of your pictures until they're just painting without love. Being there and catching the moment is the key, whether you shoot 1 frame per second or 50 - it doesn't matter. The best photos are about the subject, not the artist's unique and benevolent vision. A good photographer is just a wormhole enabling a journey through time to a moment that might have been forgotten:
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