Found a video of the interview with Masaya Maeda, Chief Executive — Image Communication Product Operations — Canon Inc on YouTube (user fotografernet). Parts of this interview have been posted previously in written form. The video has English subtitles and Masaya Maeda’s answers are translated. The discussed topics:
Canon has the Powershot S100 for $249 (click here) as a Gold Box Deal, it just got live. although there is already the successor available, the [shoplink 10422]PowerShot S110[/shoplink], the GPS enabled and highly popular PowerShot S100 can still hold up. The new S110 has WiFi connectivity, but no more GPS receiver.
12.1 Megapixel CMOS sensor combined with the new DIGIC 5 Image Processor createsthe Canon HS SYSTEM for improved low-light performance up to ISO 6400 and enhanced image quality.
Capture stunning Full HD 1080p video in stereo sound with a dedicated movie button; zoom while shooting and play back videos on an HDTV via the HDMI output.
5x Optical Zoom with 24mm wide angle allows you to capture more in your frame, and a bright f/2.0 lens makes it ideal for low-light conditions or using shallowdepth-of-field for dramatic, soft backgrounds.
Intelligent IS automatically chooses from six different modes to optimize image stabilization for the shooting condition.
High-Speed Burst HQ allows for continuous capture at a maximum of 8 frames* while maintaining superb image quality and Super Slow Motion Movie records videoat high speeds to allow playback in slow motion.
Full range of shooting and recording modes including RAW + JPEG for the ultimatecreative control, and a control ring for intuitive manual adjustment.
Built-in GPS tracker records your location, and a logger allows easy viewing of the locations on a map to help you remember where images were taken.
Top rated eBay seller getitdigital (99.6% positive ratings) has the Canon EF-S 18-200mm F/3.5-5.6 IS USM on sale . Free shipping and USA warranty, and limited stock.
The Canon 18-200mm IS Lens is a compact, lightweight and wide magnification range lens. This zoom lens features a wide focal length range from normal to telephoto (equivalent to 29-320mm in the 35mm format) making it an ideal choice as a general-purpose zoom lens. It features an Optical Image Stabilizer for up to 4-stops of effective correction even at full zoom. And the circular aperture can give beautiful background blur effects.
Key Features Image Stabilizer – 4 stop Image Stabilizer (IS) extends low light options to previously unavailable levels. Photographers normally shooting handheld at 1/250 sec can switch on IS to obtain a similarly steady and blur-free result with a shutter speed of just 1/15 second. Superior Image Quality – Two UD (Ultra-low Dispersion) elements and several aspherical elements are used to suppress the effects of secondary chromatic aberrations, to obtain crisp, sharp, high-contrast images without fringing throughout the zoom range. Super Spectra Coatings – Optimized Super Spectra lens coatings and lens element shaping, suppress flare and ghosting – more prone to occur with digital cameras due to reflection of the image sensor. Coatings also help achieve true color balance and increase contrast for vivid hi-fidelity images.
If you happen to be located in Japan, you can rent the Canon EOS M (price & specs) for free, 7 days and 6 nights. It is Canon’s “Let’s Try” campaign, the EOS M can be rented for free at the Nagoya Umeda Ginza (sorry if translation is wrong) showroom.
The Canon EOS 6D (price & specs) is selling very well, and it is on the way to become a highly popular camera. Canon’s entry level full-frame DSLR has a lot of good points: noise performance (even better than the Canon EOS 5D Mark III (price & specs)), the price (currently available at $1899 – Amazon | B&H | Adorama – for the body only, and $2499 – Amazon | B&H | Adorama – for the 6D with the EF 24-105 f/4L IS lens), outstanding image quality, and then. But everything comes for a price, and Canon made some compromises on the EOS 6D, foremost not featuring the advanced AF system of the EOS 5D Mark III, and holding back the excellent moiré and aliasing filters sported on the 5D Mark III.
Indeed, the EOS 6D, while having a very high image quality (on par with the EOS 5D Mark III), suffers from much more moiré and aliasing artifacts than its bigger sibling. That’s where the Mosaic Engineering anti-aliasing comes into play. They develop such filters for Canon and Nikon DSLRs since long. Now they made one for the Canon 6D, the VAF-6D. They made a video (spotted by DSLR News Shooter) to show the capabilities of the filter.
These are the first video clips demonstrating our new VAF-6D – which corrects the HD video aliasing and moire artifacts of the Canon 6D!
By the way, as with all our VAF-series filters, there’s no significant light loss with this filter: The variation in exposure among the different segments in the video, is due to the highly variable lighting – very wild partly-cloudy skies that day! Beautiful skies, though – so we didn’t want to overexpose them… To give the most valid comparison, we purposely kept the aperture and other imaging and processing parameters exactly the same among all the shots, so the video brightness varies with the cloud cover.
The filter doesn’t appear to lower resolution. There is, however, a small drawback when using the filter. Dan Chung from DSLR News Shooter reports:
There is also a shift to the back-focus setting of the lens, which means that the distance scale will be rendered inaccurate. Early versions of the filter for the 5D mkII also had very soft and dark corners with wide angle lenses. Mosaic claim to have improved both back-focus shifts and wide angle performance with a new second version for the 5D mkII. The 6D version should share these improvements but I haven’t tested it.
Mosaic Engineering’s filter isn’t really cheap. It costs $365 and can be ordered in their online store. We have to wait for more test to see if the EOS 6D with the filter can hold up to more expensive full-frame gear, like the EOS 5D Mark III. In any case, Mosaic Engineering’s filter is welcome accessory that will be of great interest for all those photographers and videographers who own an EOS 6D and want to get rid of moiré and aliasing artifacts. Even if the filter isn’t really cheap, for people on a budget it makes a good alternative to a $3150 5D Mark III, when bundled with the EOS 6D .
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