The Canon Digital Learning blog now features weekly articles with educational infos, tips & tricks, and everything that may help enthusiast Canon shooters.

Canon press release:

THE CANON DIGITAL LEARNING CENTER ENHANCES WEEKLY BLOG TO DELIVER EXPERT PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEOGRAPHY ADVICE

The Canon Digital Learning Center Blog now features regularly updated educational information, tips for imaging enthusiasts and news on Canon products

Created for imaging enthusiasts and professionals eager to learn new techniques and get expert advice on a variety of topics, the revamped Canon Digital Learning Center (CDLC) Blog offers the insights they seek.

Expert contributors such as Explorers of Light, and Canon Technical Specialists and Advisors, show what the CDLC has to offer firsthand via weekly blog posts.  Recent topics include field reports from Canon Live Learning events, protecting camera gear from summer elements, dissecting an EOS C500 Steadicam rig, and a little-known LP-E6 battery management trick.

Canon C300 EOS Demonstration – Overview & Setup

Various Canon news:

• A Brief Tour of Canon’s Massive Showroom of Wonders Gizmodo
• Police seize fake Canon goods – nationmultimedia
• Canon Live Learning photographs Brown Bears of Alaska – Canon Digital Learning
• Canon Announces New Online Image Management Service – photoreview
• Your chance to join Ziv Koren in EOS workshops – Canon Europe

Camera Labs is working on the Canon EOS 70D review, it is in progress but comes with lots of information and AF test videos. They write:

Putting aside the new Dual Pixel AF system for a moment, the EOS 70D represents a fair upgrade over its predecessor. It offers a more capable 19-point AF system, faster continuous shooting, built-in Wifi, broader viewfinder coverage, a touch-screen, the choice of movie compression, deeper bracketing and AF micro-adjustment. Considering the minor refresh that became the EOS T5i / 700D, the EOS 70D represents a significant move forward by Canon. Indeed it brings the 70D close to what’s offered by the EOS 7D, surpassing it in some respects, and having us speculate what the company has up its sleeve for a possible successor in the semi-pro category.

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Alone in Iceland is a video shot by André Öberg using a Canon EOS 7D and the lenses listed below. André’s description:

Alone, I drove almost 3.500Km, hiked around 100km, met lots of people and have seen unbelievable landscapes. Putting those 19 days in four minutes and a half was the most difficult part.
Travelling to Iceland is an overwhelming life experience, and I definitely want to come back.

Gear:
– Canon 7D
– Canon 17-55mm 2.8 – Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM – GoPro Hero 3 (only used in the car shots)

 

More news…:

• Sigma 18-35mm f-1.8 Lens Review – Hands On – The Digital Story
• Sigma’s 18-35mm f1.8 Gets Converted Into a Cine Lens – The Phoblographer
• Review: Canon T5i (But You Can Call it the T4i Mk II) – The Phoblographer
• 75 Percent of People Buy The Wrong Digital Camera – newsrule
• New Canon EF-S 55-250mm IS STM Zoom Lens & Canon’s EOS Movie Servo AF – photographyreview
• Alligator snatches Canon DSLR from photographer and then returns it eight months later – Imaging Resource
• Canon spies opportunity in surveillance as digital camera growth cools – tech2