Canon EOS C300 and EOS C300 Mark II firmware updates available for download

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Previously announced, the firmware updates for the Canon EOS C300 and EOS C300 Mark II are now available for download.

At a glance, the firmware updates provide the following (more in the video below):

  • The EOS C300 Mark II Digital Cinema Camera (EF-Mount) updates will allow various functions such as support for the Canon EVF-V70 OLED Electronic Viewfinder, WFT-E8 Wireless File Transmitter, Shutter Angle Priority, support for Zebra range at 65 percent or below, 2K Crop Audio Recording, Built-In Mic Audio off, and Peripheral Illumination Correction when using the new EF 24-105mm f/4L IS II USM lens.
  • The EOS C300 Mark II Digital Cinema Camera (PL-Mount) updates will allow various functions such as support for the Canon EVF-V70 OLED Electronic Viewfinder, WFT-E8 Wireless File Transmitter, Shutter Angle Priority, support for Zebra range at 65 percent or below, 2K Crop Audio Recording, and Built-In Mic Audio off.
  • The EOS C300 Digital Cinema Camera (EF-Mount) updates will allow various functions such as support for the WFT-E8 Wireless File Transmitter, Shutter Angle Priority, Grip Zoom Function when using CINE-SERVO 17-120mm EF-mount, CINE-SERVO 50-1000mm EF-Mount and COMPACT SERVO 18-80mm lenses, Auto Iris and Push Iris when using CINE-SERVO 17-120mm EF-mount, CINE-SERVO 50-1000mm EF-Mount and COMPACT SERVO 18-80mm lenses and Peripheral Illumination Correction when using the new EF 24-105mm f/4L IS II USM lens.
  • The EOS C300 Digital Cinema Camera DAF (EF-Mount) updates will allow various functions such as support for the WFT-E8 Wireless File Transmitter, Shutter Angle Priority, Dual Pixel CMOS AF (DAF) when using CINE-SERVO 17-120mm EF-Mount and COMPACT SERVO 18-80mm lenses, Grip Zoom Function when using CINE-SERVO 17-120mm EF-mount, CINE-SERVO 50-1000mm EF-Mount and COMPACT SERVO 18-80mm lenses, Auto Iris and Push Iris when using CINE-SERVO 17-120mm EF-mount, CINE-SERVO 50-1000mm EF-Mount and COMPACT SERVO 18-80mm lenses and Peripheral Illumination Correction when using the new EF 24-105mm f/4L IS II USM lens.
  • The EOS C300 Digital Cinema Camera (PL-Mount) updates will allow various functions such as support for the WFT-E8 Wireless File Transmitter and Shutter Angle Priority.

Canon EOS C300 Mark II: B&H Photo | Adorama

A Bit of Everything (EOS 5D4, Milvus 18mm, Rokinon 50mm, Canon 16-35mm, tutorials)

Above: 50mm vs 35mm vs 28mm – Best Street Photography Lens – Kaiman Wong

Tutorial: How to Use Canon’s Camera Connect App to Transfer Photos from Your 5D Mark IV to Your Cellphone – Fstoppers

Tutorial: Photographing Holiday Lights – Canon Digital Learning Center

Review: Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L III – The Phoblographer

Camera of the Year 2016: Best Professional and High-End Cameras – Imaging Resource – IR names the EOS 5D Mark IV as “best professional DSLR” of the year:

In short, while it looks like a 5D Mark III, the design is refined, well thought-out, and most of all familiar, which to a professional is exactly what he or she wants and needs. They need a tool, and the 5D Mark IV is an exceptional one, for photography as well as for video

Review: Zeiss Milvus 18mm f/2.8 Distagon T* Lens – ePHOTOzine

Teardown: An Inside Look at the Rokinon 50mm AF FE Autofocus Lens – LensRentals

This lens was a pleasant surprise. No, it’s not built like a tank. But it is built like a small, efficient, well-constructed lens. With some of the previous Samyang / Rokinon lenses we disassemble them going “Oh, that’s going to break. This could be a problem.” We didn’t see any obvious weak points like that with this lens. It’s a clear step up in construction quality.

The Top 10 Photos, Cameras, and Tags on Flickr in 2016 – PetaPixel

Tutorial: Create a Faded 60s Effect in Photoshop – Lumoid Blog

Top 100 Photography Blogs Every Photographer Must Read – Feedspot

The Winners Of The 2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer Of The Year Contest – Bored Panda

Below: Tilt Shift Tutorial – CanonUSA

Below, tutorial: How to Turn a Boring Photo Into an Awesome Image With Lightroom! – Lightroom Photo Editing – YuriFineart

Canon EOS M5 kits in stock and ready to ship at major retailers

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At a glance:

  • 24.2MP APS-C CMOS Sensor
  • DIGIC 7 Image Processor
  • 2.36m-Dot EVF, Touch and Drag AF Control
  • 3.2″ 1.62m-Dot Tilting Touchscreen LCD
  • Full HD 1080p Video Recording at 60 fps
  • Built-In Wi-Fi with NFC, Bluetooth Smart
  • Dual Pixel CMOS AF
  • Up to 9 fps Shooting and ISO 25600
  • Digital IS 5-Axis Image Stabilization

After too much waiting, the EOS M5 eventually is in stock and ready to ship at authorised Canon retailers:

Not living in the US? Let’s see if the Canon EOS M5 is available and at what price in your country: [shopcountry 40697]

Canon’s financial rise looks frail without earnings support, report suggests

canon rumorsNikkei Asian Review reports:

TOKYO — Shares in Canon have been riding a broad rally in Japanese equities since the U.S. presidential election, but the camera maker’s advance seems precarious given an uncertain profit outlook.

Canon edged up 1% on Monday morning but soon started heading south, ending the day down 0.14% at 3,417 yen. “Hedge funds that had taken the yen’s post-election decline as an opportunity to buy the stock apparently decided to lock in some profits,” said an official at Asset Management One.

Canon overtook Keyence in market capitalization last week to become Japan’s most valuable electronics maker for the first time in about five months. Its market cap came to 4.55 trillion yen ($39.6 billion) Monday, more than 110 billion yen above Keyence’s. Investors have pounced on Canon shares, welcoming a dividend yield in the 4% range for the year ending this month.

But this is far from an earnings-driven advance. Analysts are growing bearish on Canon’s 2017 outlook. Just six months ago, they saw operating profit topping 300 billion yen next year, up substantially from the company’s 235 billion yen forecast for this year. But most recently, the consensus estimate has slid to 240 billion yen amid a tough environment for the company’s mainstay multifunction copiers and digital cameras. 

Read the report at Nikkei Asian Review….

Canon patent for a lens with two mounts, can be reverse mounted for macro

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We may soon see Canon lenses with mounts on both ends. Such a lens could easily be “reverse mounted” on a DSLR, something you usually do with adapters. By reverse mounting a lens you get a strong macro lens.

However, when using reverse mount adapters, you loose all connectivity and hence all electronic settings like AF or automatic aperture and exposure settings are not working. Canon’s patent shows a lens with electric contacts on both ends and that can be mounted in two ways. One lens could thus be used as standard lens and as a very powerful macro lens. Pretty cool, I think. Really hope this patent goes into production soon.

  • Patent publication number 2016-206568
    • Release date 2016.12.8
    • Application date 2015.4.28
  • Canon patent
    • Reversibly attachable lenses
    • Reverse attachment detection switch
    • Switch control according to installation position

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An interchangeable lens switching the aforementioned lens control information according to a place of contact which had the lens control information according to a place of contact attached to two or more places at a camera in a lens which has contact with a camera, and was attached to a camera.
[Claim 2] A camera system switching the aforementioned lens control information according to a place of contact which had the lens control information according to a place of contact attached to two or more places at a camera in a lens which has contact with a camera, and was attached to a camera.

 

[via Egami]