Lots of rumours are hitting the net ahead of the expected ‘2 waves’ of announcements from Canon next month and in August. One of the cameras constantly mooted is a 60D. But I see a problem with this and something profound has been missed.
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What do senior Canon product planners think of DSLR video? EOSHD.com has rounded up a ‘state of the union’ collection of the latest Canon quotes, from the people who make big decisions. These guys decide company strategy and channel customer requests from key markets like the USA to Research & Development back in Japan. Like a true democracy, Canon say that what happens next will depend on what customers ask…
UPDATE: The Sony A55 has now been announced and a review is out. It is very disappointing in terms of the video mode EOSHD has been made aware of an innovative step in DSLR video by Sony. Read more on the Sony Pellix HDSLRs here UPDATE. Specs are now revealed: 1) A55 16MP 10FPS EVF-1.44M 1.1X magnification 95% AVCHD full HD 2) A33 14MP 7FPS EVF-1.44M 1.1X magnification 95% AVCHD…
[vimeo]10537333[/vimeo] Watch the shoot out on Zacuto.com here This, the final part of Zacuto’s HDSLR versus 35mm film web series has a number of eye-openers. If you haven’t seen it already don’t read any further! I’m going to go into quite a bit of detail on what I think is the conclusion, for me anyway, of this shootout. So, spoilers ahead…
1. Economies of scale 40 million Canon SLR format cameras have been sold since 1987 and half of those after 2003. In 2010 digital photography is a huge market, much larger than niche Red found in the comparatively small indie filmmaking and professional production markets.
UPDATE: The rumours were right! Now expect the NEX7 for September’s Photokina. Sony’s much anticipated mirrorless HDSLR is released in a few days. What do we know? It will be available in Hong Kong and Japan from May 11th and a limited stock global release that same day. Whilst an attempt at a global release is good, unfortunately 24p is missing from the spec sheet. Stop reading now?
Every wondered how the Sony Alpha series delivers a live view image from a very small sensor in the viewfinder housing without cropping, mimicking the field of view of the main CMOS, while enabling super fast phase detect AF at the same time? (Deep breath). Well, it seems Panasonic did wonder this, and plan to bring such innovations to a range of lenses previously not fully compatible with mirror-less bodies.…
A quick glance above and you’d think the photo was shot by NASA using a rocket, costing millions. Or maybe shot by an astronaut clutching a Nikon D3X orbiting earth from a space shuttle! In fact, the snap above is from a Canon Powershot A560 in a polystyrene box attached to a balloon.