[Rumor] Is There An EOS 4D Out In The Wild?
This showed up in the CR forum. An Amazon video about Canon’s remote app shows the app’s header saying “4D”, at least it looks like (at the 19 seconds mark). Funny
[via CR]This showed up in the CR forum. An Amazon video about Canon’s remote app shows the app’s header saying “4D”, at least it looks like (at the 19 seconds mark). Funny
[via CR]On September 17th Canon announced it will start a cloud storage solution that let you upload, organize and share your precious pics. It’s beta for the time being, and only on invite. Strong integration with Facebook. Consumers interested in the beta can register at www.Project1709.com.
Project 1709 – key features
Press release:
Zeiss announced it will develop a new lenses family aimed at high resolution full frame DSLRs.
Carl Zeiss is heralding a particularly powerful new full-frame SLR lens at photokina 2012. Dr. Michael Pollmann, Consumer Lenses Product and Program Manager in the Carl Zeiss Camera Lenses Division, is addressing strengths and technical details of the new high-end SLR lens family in a Q&A.
The lenses are expected for Autumn 2013 (sigh) and will cost around $3000 since “the lenses are more demanding in terms of material selection and construction than our previous ZE and ZF.2 lenses“. The lenses will be available also for the EF bayonet (ZE).
What does “uncompromising image quality” mean?
The new lenses will achieve extremely high image quality throughout the entire picture including edges even at maximum aperture. At the same time, chromatic aberration is extremely low.
Egami (translated) spotted another patent filed by Canon. This time it is for a 14mm f/2.8 lens with improved coating (tubular coating):
It seems it is possible to realize a low-refractive-index low reflectivity by the structure below the diffraction limit, even without the uneven surface of the coating. 14mm F2.8 is what I want you to adopt all means patent coating of the lens as the front lens is large, yet is protruding.
[via Egami]
- Patent Publication No. 2012-159723
- 2012.8.23 Release Date
- 2011.2.1 filing date
- Example 1
- F = 14.3mm focal length
- Fno. = 2.89
- Half angle ω = 56.6 °
- 14 images in 10 groups lens configuration
- Existing coating roughness
- In daily use, dirt or dust may adhere, could not wipe, sex or bad Mentenasu productivity and manufacturing process
- Canon patent
- (Coating applied to one surface of a lens) thin film layer
- Having a plurality of tubular spaces are arranged parallel to the tube
- Maximum opening diameter of the tubular space below 400nm
- The inorganic oxide materials (silica, titania)
While not yet available, Magic Lantern is running on the Canon EOS 7D.
Yes, that’s true. Our young team member g3gg0 did the impossible, and solved the 7D puzzle within days of receiving the camera […]
Background: Trammell Hudson started to port Magic Lantern on 7D three years ago. While he was able to run user code using the firmware update procedure, he was not able to run it in parallel with Canon firmware – which was required for Magic Lantern to run as an add-on software, without replacing the main firmware. Since then, we had little or no idea about how to solve this puzzle, until last week, when g3gg0 had an Aha! moment and discovered how to load Canon firmware from autoexec.bin code.
The first analysis shows that porting is straightforward (more or less), and most features will work without major code changes, as Magic Lantern does not have to run on both DIGIC processors. Basic features such as zebra and focus peaking are already working, so you may expect an alpha version to be available soon.
Great news for all Canon 7D shooters who want to enhance their gear.
[via planet5d]There is a bunch of discounted Canon related items available on eBay. I only list reputable, top rated sellers. Let’s see the items on sale:
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