Posts about 'Canon'

We’re sure you’ve read the announcement from Canon’s team last week announcing a massive 120 megapixel sensor, well this week the technicians at team Canon have announced the biggest ever CMOS sensor, measuring 202×205 mm – that’s round 8 inches square; making this sensor roughly around 40 times larger than the sensor currently found in ... read more
August 31, 2010 in News by Joanne Carter

CANON’S NEW EOS 60D DIGITAL SLR CAMERA
UNLEASHES THE CREATIVE POTENTIAL OF DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY
AND EOS FULL HD VIDEO WITH NEW IN-CAMERA IMAGING FEATURESNew EOS 60D Offers a Vari-Angle LCD Screen, EOS Full HD Video Recording, In-Camera RAW Processing and Creative Filters and 18-Megapixel Resolution Among Class-Leading SpecsLAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., August 26, 2010 – High-quality digital capture ... read more
August 26, 2010 in News by David Schloss

Not being a school portrait shooter myself, I’m not sure why this isn’t just a software function that’s downloadable to the standard Canon 7D, but Canon has announced today a studio version of their 7D that allows the unit to be “locked” into certain settings. It can be coupled with the Canon wireless transmitter and ... read more
August 17, 2010 in News by David Schloss

Canon loaned me a Mark IV and an 800/5.6L IS to test and shoot at the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships. Before I headed out I shot a Portland Timbers soccer game at night requiring high ISOs. The second I put it up to my eye and looked at the other end of the ... read more
June 9, 2010 in Tips by Thomas Boyd

Canon announced today that it had just built its 40 Millionth EOS SLR camera, adding 10 million units in just the last 3 years. To be fair, this number includes all the EOS film cameras built since 1987 but virtually all growth in the last 5 years has been in digital since Canon ceased production ... read more
May 13, 2010 in News by John Omvik

Because someone has to hold the record, photographer Gerald Donovan has created the worlds largest image (for now) out of 4,250 individual frames taken with a Canon 7D over 3.5 hrs using the GigaPan Epic Pro robotic camera mount.
While it is an impressive technical feat, I can think of several other subjects that would have ... read more
May 11, 2010 in News by John Omvik

Mike Comeau at Aperture Land reports that Amazon lowered their price on the S90 to $373. I guess this caught my eye because I want this camera badly. Maybe another day.
Here’s the link to Amazon for the Canon S90.read more
April 26, 2010 in News by Thomas Boyd

If you like to shoot wide and you don’t want to go fish, you need to check out this lens. At 8mm it offers whopping 121.2° rectilinear field of view. This is the widest angle lens available for APS-C sensors, and is now available in a Canon mount configuration for the MSRP of $1,100, and ... read more
April 23, 2010 in News by John Omvik

Canon has release a new firmware update for the EOS 7D
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EOS 7D Firmware Update Version 1.2.1Firmware changes
Firmware Version 1.2.1 incorporates the following improvements and fixes.
– Extends the timing at which the high temperature warning indicator is displayed and the timing of automatic shut down of the camera due to a rise in internal temperature during ... read more
April 15, 2010 in News by John Omvik

For years, people in the digital photography community have been saying “Video is the next big thing”. With the increase of HD Video capabilities to new D-SLRs in the last couple years this prophecy seems to be true. Canon’s announcement that it is expanding the CPS program to include professional videographers, cinematographers and film makers ... read more
April 10, 2010 in News by John Omvik