Yea this is all just a rumor and that is important to remember. I am one who is anxiously awaiting the 60D as I chose not to upgrade to the 50D. I would like to see a flip and rotate screen on the camera myself. I always thought it would be handy for shooting from ground level without having to get down on your belly. Also it would add to the longgevity of the screen.
Greg Schneider wrote:
I've read that DIGIC V would be released around this time, so it could be true. I know they've been working on OLED displays for some time now.
If this is true, it'll be the best crop body ever made. 19 pt all cross AF would be absolutely killer. No need for the 45 points really for most everyone except the most serious wildlife and sports photographers, and they already purchase the 1 series anyway.
Nawwww!!!! I got the best new rumor... beats them all!!!!!!!!!
Newest upgrade will be putting a new digic IV 1.3 crop sensor in the 60D which will allow fora higher MP count, better high ISO, better detail and greater DR
fraga wrote:
I'm afraid most of those specs are too good to be true.
Specially this one:
+1
The special feature to be announced later "for Canon loyalists" is, no doubt about it, the "subject stabilization" mechanism built into the body. This has been developed because too many people had discovered that Image stabilization didn't remove all the blur. The subject stabilization shares much of the same stealth technology that also allows diffraction blur to be a thing of the past
Actually, the esoteric-sounding "Diffraction Elimination" has the smell of truthiness to it.
The 50D and T1i sensors reach their mathematical diffraction limit at f/7.1, and you can begin to see even very good lenses start to go soft as early as f/8 on those bodies. Given that consumer lenses have a maximum aperture of just 5.6 at some focal lengths, there is not much working range. This problem eventually will affect even full frame cameras as pixel density inexorably increases, which is why I think Canon may really be looking at this.
If the effects of diffraction at different f-stops can be modeled accurately for a given lens design (I can't think of a reason this is not possible), then it may be possible for clever image processsing algorithms to restore sharpness during RAW processing, leaving fewer artifacts than classic unsharp mask techniques.
garyvot wrote:
Actually, the esoteric-sounding "Diffraction Elimination" has the smell of truthiness to it.
The 50D and T1i sensors reach their mathematical diffraction limit at f/7.1, and you can begin to see even very good lenses start to go soft as early as f/8 on those bodies. Given that consumer lenses have a maximum aperture of just 5.6 at some focal lengths, there is not much working range. This problem eventually will affect even full frame cameras as pixel density inexorably increases, which is why I think Canon may really be looking at this.
If the effects of diffraction at different f-stops can be modeled accurately for a given lens design (I can't think of a reason this is not possible), then it may be possible for clever image processsing algorithms to restore sharpness during RAW processing, leaving fewer artifacts than classic unsharp mask techniques....Show more →
That would be very clever actually. I knew the diffraction limit was f7 on the 50D but hadn't thought of it relative to slower lenses with less than a stop of prime resolution (and that not the lenses sweet point even either). If they try it out and get it right on the 60D (as canon traditionally does) then it will make the way for even more packed sensors on the next 1Ds.
