The importer allows you to upload your pictures automatically to Dropbox when you connect your memory card, or phone or camera to your computer. The tool can be downloaded clicking here.

Not bad! And for free….

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Digital SLR’s have developed to a level where – at least so it seems – you can make serious movies using them. At least the Canon 5D Mark II has been used to produce two documentaries that have been nominated for the Academy Awards.

Dennis Danfung’s Hell and Back Again, after having won the Sundance World Cinema Grand Jury Price for documentaries, has been nominated for the Oscars. And that is not all. Another documentary, The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom by Lucy Walker, has also been nominated for an Academy Award.

Check the following links for the Canon 5D Mark II: Amazon, Adorama, B&H, Canon USA, J&R, eBay

[via blog.planet5d.com, techradar.com]

[via dpreview Canon forum]

Find the summary clicking here, or the start with the in-depth analysis. The latter includes performance graphs and lots of sample images at different ISO settings. We anticipate the final verdict:

Rating (out of 10):

• Build: 9.0
• Ease of use: 8.8
• Autofocusing: 8.0
• Still image quality: JPEG – 9.0; RAW - 9.5
• Video quality: 9.0
• OVERALL: 9.0

They suggest to…

Buy this camera if:
- You want a compact digital camera with DSLR-like controls.
- You’re interested in shooting raw files.
- You want effective image stabilisation for stills and video clips.
- You require high resolution and low noise levels at high ISO settings.
- You’d like the ability to shoot HD video clips.

Don’t buy this camera if:
- You will only shoot JPEG files.
- You require high burst speeds and buffer capacity plus fast cycle times for processing shots.

Check this links for pre-ordering the Canon G1 X:

• Amazon US (click here) release date March 31, 2012, free shipping
• Adorama (click here) no release date, free shipping
• B&H (click here) no release date, free shipping
• J&R (click here) no release date

[via 1001noisycameras.com]

The whole trip was timelapsed using a Canon 7D (click here) mounted on the dashboard of the car.

Read the whole story on the BBC blog (click here).

More links for the amazing Canon 7D:

• The main message is that Canon was forced to change plans and schedules because of the earthquake in Japan and the flooding in Thailand. In both cases production facilities were heavily damaged. This caused delays not only in development but also in research. Production should have been returned to normal standards at the end of December 2011
• Priority goes to image quality first and then to smaller and more compact devices (where the mirror-less paradigm could be the right approach)
• Miniaturization of DSLR cameras with EF mounts is a target (and is in progress)
• The EF system is still considered strategically important by Canon
• Canon is working on a mirror-less system, and will most probably deliver in 2012

In the meantime, have a look if you can get the brand new Canon G1 X: Amazon, Adorama, B&H, Canon USA, J&R, eBay

Canon announced a huge 8x8inch sensor for telescope use! It can record 60fps videos. It has a magnitude of 10 (naked eye has a magnitude of approximately 6). It is the world’s largest surface area for a CMOS sensor. It has 40 times the size of fulflrame sensor. Amazing! I want it too

via http://dc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/20110915_477641.html

The F2.8 lens is in excellent properties, it is also worth noting the benefits of the F4 to open. The nature of the lens, usually to large diameter-to brighten the open. Larger diameter of the lens, however, there are aspects of the aberrations prone to occur. If you set the F4 to open the can be kept to a low occurrence of aberrations from the design stage, the optical design can become more reasonable. AT-X 17-35 F4 PRO FX is, APS-but almost as big as the wide-angle zoom lens for C, F4 is also largely due to the design of this size was realized.”
Suggested retail price: ¥ 98,000, around $ 1.200 and € 850,00.
Tokina (Google Translation)
Click to see 12 sample images taken with 5D MII

Check out price and availability of 5D MarkII: Amazon, Adorama, B&H, Canon USA, J&R, eBay

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