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01/18/2007 11:55:05 AM · #26 |
Originally posted by cheekymunky:
Personally I'd love to see a 40D, but I doubt it'll happen as the 30D is only 12 months old (maybe at photokina in september?). |
They need to release a 40D. I've been waiting to upgrade my 20D and the 30D was a joke. A dumb marketing joke that equated to Canon pointing a shotgun at themselves. It was nothing more than the 20Dn. And that's what it should have been.
If they don't release something with better spec's than the XTi for the semi-pro user than their marketing department needs to be shot with a real cannon.
Please....give me "dust-removal" please!!!!! Until Canon offers a semi-pro body with an anti-dust system I'm not upgrading. I hate dust...I'm plagued by it no matter what I try to do. |
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01/18/2007 12:23:13 PM · #27 |
Looking two years into the future....
With feature rich and megapixel laden DSLR's everywhere and people (with the exception of gadget freaks and showoffs) utterly happy with their 40mp prosumer and 22mp consumer digitals (not to mention the 18mp point and shoots everywhere). Nikon, Canon, Pentax and a strangely resurgent Minolta (which was bought by Donald Trump and Rosie O'Donnel following their midnight wedding at the Little White Chapel in Reno- an event that the media described as "Odd and Kinda Eerie") scrap all digital in favor of a new media call "Mocklet". Mocklet will be embraced by the entire photo community until an article on Fred Miranda points out that it is indeed just film in a new clever package. Millions march on the various companies burning them to the ground. In the chaos that ensues governments around the world collapse leaving the world in disarray and resembling something from Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.
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01/18/2007 12:45:54 PM · #28 |
Originally posted by theSaj:
Please....give me "dust-removal" please!!!!! Until Canon offers a semi-pro body with an anti-dust system I'm not upgrading. I hate dust...I'm plagued by it no matter what I try to do. |
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01/18/2007 01:37:13 PM · #29 |
Originally posted by theSaj:
Please....give me "dust-removal" please!!!!! Until Canon offers a semi-pro body with an anti-dust system I'm not upgrading. I hate dust...I'm plagued by it no matter what I try to do. |
From what I hear people saying that have this feature, it doesn't work that great anyway. Sure sounds good on paper though don't it. Maybe what you really need is the pixel mapping feature for dust removal. What do they call it, Dust delete data or something?
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01/18/2007 01:42:46 PM · #30 |
Originally posted by Gordon:
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Sometimes I feel that way...
What I'd like to see in a new 40D:
a) all the higher spec's of the XTi (namely 10mp, dust-removal, etc).
b) 30D's features (larger viewscreen and spot meter)
c) advanced focusing - I find it interesting that so much emphasis is placed on the EF-S line (1.6x crop). But nothing new has been provided in way of focus points. The 1D have 35 focus points. And well, okay, I'm not asking for quite that much. But it'd be nice to have the 40D bumped up from like 9 to perhaps 15 or 21 focus points.
d) ISO 50 & ISO 6400 would also be nice.
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01/18/2007 01:44:34 PM · #31 |
Heck, I own what probably is the DSLR dust-magnet champeeen of all time, and it really doesn't bother me. Granted, I'm a large-aperture shooter more often than not, but I really don't find it a chore to keep the sensor relatively clean. I really don't want the added complexity of an on-board dust removal system.
It really will be interesting to see what Canon unveils this year; given it's their 70th B-day, I'd bet on some significant announcements. I'm almost sure we'll see a next-generation 1-series camera this year, whether that be in March or in September. I wouldn't bet either way.
The 5D is in fact 18 months old, and based on history, that would make it "due" for an upgrade. I really, seriously doubt this will happen. As far as I can see, it's still without competition. They'd be better off concentrating on other areas where they have intense market pressure.
Whatever happens, it will be an interesting year. |
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01/18/2007 03:47:46 PM · #32 |
Well Kirbic,
I, and many others, would love to know how you do it! I've been plagued by dust. I've had my 20D come back to the factory and had dust. Maybe you don't need to switch lenses often for your shooting style. I do...
I've tried using a rocket blower...., etc.
Still a problem. |
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01/18/2007 03:52:53 PM · #33 |
Originally posted by theSaj:
Well Kirbic,
I, and many others, would love to know how you do it! I've been plagued by dust. I've had my 20D come back to the factory and had dust. Maybe you don't need to switch lenses often for your shooting style. I do...
I've tried using a rocket blower...., etc.
Still a problem. |
I've used Olympus systems with the dust remover and while it works okay its still doesnt fix the dust problem. So I highly doubt that any anti-dust system will be a once and for all fix. Cleaning the sensor is no big deal and can be done fairly quickly. I did mine on my 1DMKII the other day in less then 5 minutes total. I may change lenses 4 times a day while shooting and shoot in some of the worst conditions you could imagine, I shoot dirt track racing all summer long and yes I change lenses there as well. Until you go back to film and have a clean slate everytime you push the shutter dust will be something you will have to deal with. That is unless you go back to a P&S.
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01/18/2007 03:55:29 PM · #34 |
I don't ever seem to have that much trouble with dust - though I do shoot wide open a lot so maybe that helps. I also always point the camera downwards when I'm changing lenses - never sideways or up, which I think tends to help keep the dust out.
I do also try to have everything set up, ready to go before changing a lens - caps loosened on the lenses (but not taken off) etc, so that a lens change takes half a second at most, with the camera never in an orientation for dust to fall into it.
Maybe that helps. I do this out in the field, on boats etc, in fairly dusty environments (deserts, Texas etc) and have never had that much of an issue.
That's with a Canon D60 and 1DII. I get occasional crud, which I fix with a rocket blower. I've had the cameras professionally cleaned twice since I owned them, each time because of a build up of sweat, sand and salt in the controls or under LCD panels - the sensors were always fine.
Message edited by author 2007-01-18 15:56:23.
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01/18/2007 04:01:43 PM · #35 |
Originally posted by theSaj:
Well Kirbic,
I, and many others, would love to know how you do it! |
I swap lenses like a crazy man. I always carry at least four lenses with me, and it's a rare shoot that I haven't swapped lenses at least a couple times. Yep, dust gets in there. Yep, it takes all of 5 minutes to clean it. I only clean when there's enough to make it worth my while, and that's usually every other month or so. |
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01/18/2007 04:03:40 PM · #36 |
Originally posted by agenkin:
Originally posted by Azrifel:
Rumour has it that Nikon will use Leica's system to improve the edges of the sensor where vignetting occurs (not only with Nikon, also with Canon). |
Is it to fight vignetting or unsharpness, due to the light hitting the sensor at an odd angle?
Where did you read this rumour? Just curious. |
Yeah, I got that wrong, it is to fight unsharpness. Doesn't help against vignetting. Read it at dpreview forums, deep down in one of the multiple prediction and "I wanna have a D3FF discussions / who needs ff" there.
And in my opinion, that I have been telling for about 8 months now, the FF Nikon will use Fuji sensors. But you have to search the dpc forums to see why I think so. But you heard it here first. :)
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01/18/2007 04:06:12 PM · #37 |
Originally posted by kirbic:
Originally posted by theSaj:
Well Kirbic,
I, and many others, would love to know how you do it! |
I swap lenses like a crazy man. I always carry at least four lenses with me, and it's a rare shoot that I haven't swapped lenses at least a couple times. Yep, dust gets in there. Yep, it takes all of 5 minutes to clean it. I only clean when there's enough to make it worth my while, and that's usually every other month or so. |
Doesn't bother me so much either. Swap lenses regularly, but because I seldomly shoot above f/5.6 I don't see the dust. Even then only the really big blobs are annoying. Cleaning every 6 months now, just some swaps with the brush in a couple of minutes, does the trick.
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01/18/2007 04:40:37 PM · #38 |
Originally posted by Azrifel:
And in my opinion, that I have been telling for about 8 months now, the FF Nikon will use Fuji sensors. |
I've heard this argument before, but I think that if Nikon were to make a DSLR with a Fuji sensor (which would probably be a very good camera), Fuji will lose most of their DSLR customers. Currently, Fuji's sensor is, pretty much, the *only* reason to get a Fuji DSLR.
Stranger things happened, though. |
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01/18/2007 04:53:54 PM · #39 |
Originally posted by Azrifel:
Doesn't bother me so much either. Swap lenses regularly, but because I seldomly shoot above f/5.6 I don't see the dust. Even then only the really big blobs are annoying. Cleaning every 6 months now, just some swaps with the brush in a couple of minutes, does the trick. |
I've just spent two weeks shooting in the humid Cuban air along the seashore. Sand, salty sea mist in the air, and strong winds every day. I was shooting with three primes and an ultra-wide zoom, every day at dawn and before sunset, changing lenses several times each shooting session. I was shooting, predominantly, landscapes, so the apertures ranged from f/5.6 to f/22, mostly staying at f/8-11. Shot over 2000 frames.
When leaving for the trip, I was sure that, under such conditions, I'd be cleaning the sensor if not daily, then at least every other day. I brought a Giotto rocket blower and a bottle of Eclipse with PecPads with me, so I was ready. I was checking for sensor dust every morning by taking an out-of-focus shot of sky at f/11. Only once was there small a spec of dust, which I blew away with the rocket blower. Was I lucky? I don't think so. Granted, I was very careful when changing lenses, trying to do it as quickly as possible.
As for the lens dust shaker, I have read many reports that it doesn't work quite well. I think that it's over-hyped. |
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01/18/2007 05:06:00 PM · #40 |
Originally posted by agenkin:
Originally posted by Azrifel:
And in my opinion, that I have been telling for about 8 months now, the FF Nikon will use Fuji sensors. |
I've heard this argument before, but I think that if Nikon were to make a DSLR with a Fuji sensor (which would probably be a very good camera), Fuji will lose most of their DSLR customers. Currently, Fuji's sensor is, pretty much, the *only* reason to get a Fuji DSLR.
Stranger things happened, though. |
Fuji's problem at the moment is that their dSLR market share is app. 1% if not less.... The Fuji S5 is actually already a Nikon with a Fuji sensor even more so than the previous S series were. Read my lips, Fuji/Nikon will be the next big merger in Cameraland.
Of course I could be all wrong. :)
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01/18/2007 05:29:58 PM · #41 |
Originally posted by Azrifel:
Read my lips, Fuji/Nikon will be the next big merger in Cameraland. |
Why go through the trouble of developing and releasing the S5, then? :)
My bet is on a Nikon-made FF LBCAST sensor (the kind used in the D2H) or a sensor from Kodak, which proved that it's in consumer sensor making business by providing a sensor for the Leica M8. |
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01/18/2007 05:43:13 PM · #42 |
Originally posted by agenkin:
Originally posted by Azrifel:
Read my lips, Fuji/Nikon will be the next big merger in Cameraland. |
Why go through the trouble of developing and releasing the S5, then? :)
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Not sure what Fuji is up to, but they let a lot of people go and severely reduce their support of of speakers, don't attend local photo organizaiton events, and it's not good - none of the local photographers or even a few labs know what's next - all, and i mean ALL their contacts at Fuji are gone.
Apparently this is similar to what Kodak did a year or two back.
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01/18/2007 05:49:32 PM · #43 |
Polishing crystal ball...
5D replacement. dust sensor and mapping like on the 400XTi. 5 fps.
Hmm...what I'd like to see is a 5Dn - a weather sealed one like the 1D bodies. Lower price, perhaps 2999 list.
the 1D line ...I suspect no changes to speak of. And then a new line up of them in the fall.
30D and 400 XTi - no changes.
3000D, a $599 6Mp dSLR.
A new lens or two...rumors are a 24-70 2.8 IS FF lens. I've seen most of the new lenses are IS, so I expect 2 or 3 lenses and mostly IS.
I've heard rumors of a MF body and lenses.
Who knows - canon is very good at keeping secrets.
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01/18/2007 06:17:42 PM · #44 |
How do you guys clean your sensors? I go nuts...try to blow them clean with a rocket blaster, etc. I've avoided actual contact with the sensor.
I think I am just cursed with a static charge that draws dust unto my camera.
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01/18/2007 06:39:20 PM · #45 |
| scotch tape. And you're not actually touching the sensor, you're touching the hot mirror. |
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01/18/2007 06:53:44 PM · #46 |
Originally posted by theSaj:
How do you guys clean your sensors? I go nuts...try to blow them clean with a rocket blaster, etc. I've avoided actual contact with the sensor. |
Rocket blaster is the safest an the easiest method, provided you use a quality blower that does not spit out any rubber goo (the Giottos blowers are widely recommended).
If some dust cannot be blown off use the wet cleaning, known as the Copperhill method, which involves PecPad napkins with a drop of Eclipse cleaning solution. You can buy a kit from the Copperhill's site, or you can buy them from a photography store (both items run at about $8). I used this method several times with great success.
What makes people use scotch tape for cleaning the sensor is beyond my understanding. :) The thought of the possibility of leaving some impossible-to-remove adhesive on the sensor makes me shiver. |
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01/19/2007 01:32:20 AM · #47 |
Originally posted by theSaj:
How do you guys clean your sensors? I go nuts...try to blow them clean with a rocket blaster, etc. I've avoided actual contact with the sensor. |
A statitic charged sensor brush.
When there is stuck stuff on it I use a wet method.
Don't be so scared about touching the sensor. You won't damage it so easily.
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01/19/2007 01:52:16 AM · #48 |
Originally posted by Azrifel:
Originally posted by theSaj:
How do you guys clean your sensors? I go nuts...try to blow them clean with a rocket blaster, etc. I've avoided actual contact with the sensor. |
A statitic charged sensor brush.
When there is stuck stuff on it I use a wet method.
Don't be so scared about touching the sensor. You won't damage it so easily. |
same here. blow it out, if that doesn't do it I got a static charged brush from copperhill for $5 or 10, and I also got some of the pec pad and solution, just in case, spent $25 or so.
I change lenses, have 2 bodies and one before these - 20,000+ exposures and have not has to use the fluid deal yet, the brush bit once (on my 30D because of factory installed dust that would not blow out).
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01/19/2007 12:40:19 PM · #49 |
Gossip Central for new Canon rumors.
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01/19/2007 02:19:49 PM · #50 |
Interesting that the 1 series will all be FF from these new series on, but the rumours about the 40D are that it will have APS-H. :)
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