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Canon Announce Largest Ever CMOS Sensor

Canon Announce Largest Ever CMOS Sensor

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 0 comments

Canon Launches 60D and New Lenses

Canon Launches 60D and New Lenses

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 0 comments

Canon Unveils EOS 7DSV (Studio Version)

Canon Unveils EOS 7DSV (Studio Version)

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 0 comments

Testing the Canon 800/5.6L IS on a 1D Mark IV

Testing the Canon 800/5.6L IS on a 1D Mark IV

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 0 comments

Canon Announces It Has Produced 40 Million EOS SLR Cameras

Canon Announces It Has Produced 40 Million EOS SLR Cameras

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 0 comments

At 26 GigaPixels World’s Largest Photo Features Worlds Tallest Building

At 26 GigaPixels World’s Largest Photo Features Worlds Tallest Building

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 0 comments

Amazon Cuts Price on Canon S90

Amazon Cuts Price on Canon S90

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 2 comments

Sigma Begins Shipping New 8-16mm F4.5-5.6 DC HSM For Canon

Sigma Begins Shipping New 8-16mm F4.5-5.6 DC HSM For Canon

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 0 comments

Canon Releases Firmware Update For 7D – Corrects Vertical Magenta Banding That Can Appear In Images Taken From Movie Clips

Canon Releases Firmware Update For 7D – Corrects Vertical Magenta Banding That Can Appear In Images Taken From Movie Clips

Canon has release a new firmware update for the EOS 7D ——————————————————————————- 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 0 comments

Canon Expands CPS Program To Cover Professional Videographers

Canon Expands CPS Program To Cover Professional Videographers

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 0 comments