DThom wrote:
OK not smaller chips, but overall, fewer chips to do a task. The first CPU was a big room full of tubes. My 1987 286 with 640 KB of RAM & 20MB HDD had dozens of memory chips on a big board and a 1 foot long monochrome graphics board. My core 2 quad with 4 GB RAM has 18 much smaller memory chips and a few graphic chips. The smaller size of the components allows for very large scale integration. You still have one CPU but, one low function board (monchrone graphics) can be replaced by one high function chip that has many more components than the old board. As time progresses, you will have more powerfull Digic processors in a camera but supported by fewer and fewer chips that do more, allowing for smaller size and more features, unless you need a fan and heat sink to cool the Digic VIII.
sometiems smaller as with memory chips, otoh some processor became so much more complex they became larger even though the guts making them up are smaller.
hmm i had a 1 foot long amiga that had 1MB of memory and 4096 colors and stereo sound in 1987 (and a premeptive multi-tasking OS with a GUI)
too bad it was a plastic toy and not a real computer like an IBM or Apple though
bobbytan wrote:
If this is true, I am slightly disappointed. I would love a better AF system but my 5D served me well, so I guess I can live with it. 21mp is nice. ISO 6400 (expandable to 12,800) would be nice.
More light has been added to the moon shot and there's more of the vertical grip out of shadow. It looks substantial ()
Yes! I believe we are going to see something close to the height of the old T-90. A bigger grip which extends down further but not as far as a 1 Series. A new, larger battery would almost require it.
It looks like there's gonna be a lot of pissed off people anyway... Canon can't win this one:
- The camera is packed with features and cheap. A slap on 1D series users' face!
- The camera is featureless and cheap. Not good enough to compete with Nikon and Sony
- The camera is really good but expensive. Not good enough to compete with Nikon and Sony
- The camera is not that great and expensive. WHAAAAAAT?
I want video/I dont want video. I want more megapixels/I want less megapixels. Live view/no live view. Pop-up flash/no pop-up flash....
Either way people will complain! Canon cant win... They left it till the last minute, now its too late to lead the way and keep everyone happy. Too bad for them, who cares, I'm bored, whats on TV?
In management they say you are doing a good job if you can keep 75-80% of your people happy.
I'm sure Canon can knock out a camera that can match that. The vocal minority will complain either way as our Ozzy chum alluded to!
Tariq Gibran wrote:
Yes! I believe we are going to see something close to the height of the old T-90. A bigger grip which extends down further but not as far as a 1 Series. A new, larger battery would almost require it.
That would be nice. Just hopefully not too big (and no portrait grip - that's much too 1d-series like and too big and too heavy). I figure that if you need or like the feel of the battery grip you can always add one. But that leaves those of us who don't want it out in the cold if it is integrated.
yankeefoxtrot wrote:
That would be nice. Just hopefully not too big (and no portrait grip - that's much too 1d-series like and too big and too heavy). I figure that if you need or like the feel of the battery grip you can always add one. But that leaves those of us who don't want it out in the cold if it is integrated.
Now that we can see a decent portion of the grip and other areas such as the angled mode dial and EOS lettering positon, it does indeed look like the Northlight image link posted earlier. In fact, it looks exactly the same. Either a very good photoshop hack using the Canon flash image as a template or its the real deal. If so, then the Grip looks more substantial but remains the same height as the old 5D allowing for an optional portrait battery grip.
As far as I can tell, the lens is larger than on the Northlight image.
If it doesn't have vertical grip, then we don't have any idea yet why that area is blacked out. Why would Canon create expectations for an integrated grip, if there won't be any? What else could there be?
tayo wrote:
If it doesn't have vertical grip, then we don't have any idea yet why that area is blacked out. Why would Canon create expectations for an integrated grip, if there won't be any? What else could there be?
Disappointment
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