Posts about 'Canon'

Rob Galbraith is one of the first people who publicly cried foul about the Canon 1D Mark III’s (later) acknowledged autofocus issues. He nailed Canon to the wall for their focus tracking problems in the company’s flagship sports camera and Canon ended up with a huge dent in their reputation as a result.
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March 3, 2010 in News by David Schloss

Canon is continuing to follow a pattern we’ve noticed over the last several months of announcing the date to announce new firmware updates to their existing cameras. Today’s announcement, announcement is for a pending major upgrade to the video features of the EOS 5D Mark II camera including a new 24fps 1920×1080 HD Video (24p).
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March 2, 2010 in News by John Omvik

Apple has released an update to it’s digital camera raw libraries to support new RAW files in Apple applications.
About Digital Camera Raw Compatibility Update 3.0
This update extends RAW image compatibility for Aperture 3 and iPhoto 09 for the following cameras and formats:Canon PowerShot S90
Canon sRAW
Canon mRAW
Leica D-LUX 4
Panasonic Lumix DMC-G1
Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH1
Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX3Click here ... read more
February 10, 2010 in News by John Omvik

Canon announced their newest consumer camera today, the EOS Rebel T2i (aka the Rebel 550D in Europe), which is notable for the amount of space the Canon press release dedicates to talking about its video qualities. In fact, it takes a while to find all the still camera information in the press release (below).
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February 8, 2010 in News by David Schloss

There is an old communication saying that goes, “First tell them what you are going to tell them, then tell them, then tell them what you told them”. Well Canon has now posted the firmware update for the EOS 1D Mark IV, that they told us last week they were planning to post some time ... read more
January 29, 2010 in News by John Omvik

In a press release today, Canon announced that it had passed the 50 Millionth lens milestone in December 2009. That is a lot of glass in 22 years. It is a testament to the growth of the DSLR market to see that it took 8 and a half years to build the first 10 Million ... read more
January 29, 2010 in News by John Omvik

Vincent was given a single still image of a teddy bear laying on the curb of an airport terminal as an opening frame, and asked to develop the first 2-3 min long chapter of a 7 chapter movie. ... Based on that still shot, videographers are then asked to contribute entries for the next chapter, resulting in an interesting experiment for a movie that has no fixed script, or known end. The project will go for several months, with lots of great Canon gear as prizes for each winning segment. ... You can see Vincent's first chapter as well as a "behind the scenes" clip of how it was made on his blog This is one of the best ideas for a photo/video contest that I have seen in a long time, and a great way to highlight talent and technology. Unlike the old Batman series that always asked you to "stay tuned" to the next episode, you really have no idea how this one will end. read more
January 11, 2010 in News by John Omvik

PRESS RELEASECANON U.S.A. EMPOWERS PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHERS VIA FAST WIRELESS CONNECTIVITY AND INNOVATIVE TRANSFER MODESThe EOS-1D Mark IV, EOS 5D Mark II and EOS 7D Cameras Utilize New Canon WFT Units To Help Professionals Deliver “The Shot”Lake Success, N.Y., January 7, 2010 – Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging, is announcing a step forward ... read more
January 7, 2010 in News by John Omvik

We’ve spent the last few weeks carrying a Canon EOS 7D around with us while shooting some events and have been really blown away by the video quality. Last year we did some shoots with a full-blown Canon prosumer camcorder, the top tape-based HD model before moving into interchangeable-lens systems and the 7D easily exceeds ... read more
December 31, 2009 in Reviews by David Schloss

Apple released an OS update today that provides support for six new Canon and Nikon camera RAW file formats. This update extends RAW image compatibility for Aperture 2, iPhoto ’08 and iPhoto ’09 for the following cameras:Canon EOS-1D Mark IV
Canon EOS 7D
Canon PowerShot G11
Nikon D3S
Nikon D300S
Nikon D3000This free update is available via the Software Update… ... read more
December 16, 2009 in News by John Omvik