It has been a long wait for the 5D Mark 3 and 1DS Mark IV, EOSHD.com explains why. As we know, things have been quiet on the Canon again grapevine since Photokina. Throughout the year Canon have not advanced their flagship DSLRs as we hoped they would, and Photokina 2010 marked the 3 year point in Canon’s product cycle for the 1DS. The camera did not show, so people began…
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[vimeo]17749667[/vimeo] Earlier this year EOSHD has varying degrees of success with the Canon 5D Mark II and Panasonic LA7200 anamorphic adapter – variable between unusable and not very good. I found the adapter worked best on the Panasonic GH1, where I was able to achieve an extremely wide angle with it. Typically for an anamorphic however, it still did not work well with shallow depth of field at fast apertures…
The Canon Expo ([url]https://expo.usa.canon.com) is about to kick off, and features an overwhelming bias toward HD DSLR video, with seminars by Shane Hurlbut, Vincent LaForet, Alex Buono, Russel Carpenter and Rodney Charters.
Above: left Canon’s ultra-large-scale sensor and right is the 5D Mark II’s full frame sensor. Is this really a cover for something about to hit commercial production? I think it is.
Above: Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in the early days of Apple. The iPhone is beginning to eat into the profits of other companies in all kinds of markets – compact cameras, music players, and traditional mobile phones. EOSHD.com wonders whether the future of the camera is in fact the computer. The purist photographers, forum fanatics and Leica lovers are not going to like this one! Cameras are dead. The…
Thanks to you, EOSHD.com is growing rapidly and I have some ideas on where to take it in the future I’d like to share with you! But first, I am excited about going to Philip Bloom’s London meet this weekend (14th August). Do come along if you can and talk about DSLRs, and shoot some great footage.
Above: who needs this rig when you have all the manual controls on your iPad? At some point in the midst of the early DSLR revolution I had an idea about a wireless follow focus which controlled the AF servo motors of a lens in a slow and steady way. Since then a couple of iPad / iPhone apps have been developed which do just this, but they require the…
Above: Canon’s Masaya Maeda on far right In line with Nikon, Canon Japan has also now gone on the record about their intentions to create smaller high quality DSLRs. But it’s unlikely to be mirrorless, or as small as the Sony NEX 5.