Canon EOS R Banding Issue Seems Solved By Latest Firmware Update

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Some Canon EOS R users have reportedly experienced banding issues with their new camera.

Michael The Maven discovered that artefacts appear as banding in RAW files when lifting shadows. After Canon release firmware ver. 1.2.0 for the EOS R, Michael tested again and compared firmware ver. 1.1.0 vs firmware 1.2.0., and found that the banding issue was gone.

Most user will likely never have an issue with banding but we recommend you update your EOS R asap.

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Tamron Confirms Lenses For Canon EOS R and Nikon Z Systems Are Coming

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In a recent interview with DPReview, Tamron execs confirmed the company will release lenses for Canon’s and Nikon’s full frame mirrorless systems.

Question: Do you have plans to create lenses for Canon RF and Nikon Z?

Answer: Yes, we’re also looking at that area. We have to do a lot of research and development into the reverse engineering, because they don’t disclose the details of their systems, so it’s a really hard job for us.

One size fits all?

Question: There are now four main full-frame mirrorless systems with different mount dimensions. Will you make completely different designs for the different mounts?

Answer: Each system has a different flange back distance and diameter. We need to do more research to see if we can use the same optical designs for the different mounts. But basically our approach will be the same as it is for DSLR. When we launch DSLR lenses we have the same optical design, and we customize for the different mounts. Even if the systems are totally different we’ll try to make a unified optical design.

If we design optics for a long flange back, we can adapt them for short flange back systems. It doesn’t work the other way around.

What about APS-C vs full frame sensors?

APS-C is still important to us, but when we think about the [industry], the full-frame market is expanding, so we’re looking at that market first – that’s the first priority. So gradually we’ll create a [full-frame] line and then at another time we can launch more APS-C lenses. The APS-C market is shrinking quite fast.

[via DPReview]

This is Canon America

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In this 5:50 minutes, a bit self-celebrating video, Canon USA lists all the areas in which they are active.

This goes from Canon’s highly specialised image sensors to 3D machine vision systems, the role Canon cameras play for filmmakers, the company’s efforts in medical research and diagnosing systems, not to forget the foray into space, and then more. A short promotional video that might be worth your time, just to learn in how many domains Canon is present.

Rokinon 14mm f/2.8 and 85mm f/1.4 Lenses for Canon EOS R now in Stock & Ready to Ship

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The new Rokinon 14mm f/2.8 and Rokinon 85mm f/1.4 lenses for the Canon Rf mount, i.e. for the EOS R system, are now in stock and ready to ship to your door (free shipping in the US). Rokinon lenses are also branded Samyang.

Rokinon 14mm f/2.8

Leica’s “Tank Man” Photo Wasn’t Shot With A Leica But With A Nikon

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You might have heard about the outcry that a Leica promotional video caused in China.

The short flick published by Leica (see below) shows a news photographer covering the protests around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989. The promotional video shows the photographer hiding and running from policemen and then taking the iconic picture of “Tank Man”. At the end the Leica logo in shown. But it seems there was no Leica camera involved.

As renowned German newspaper Der Spiegel reports, none of the photographers covering the protests and the crackdown were using a Leica. Jeff Widener (AP), Charlie Cole (Newsweek), Stuart Franklin (Magnum) and Arthur Tsang (Reuters) have confirmed to Der Spiegel that they used Nikon cameras and not Leicas.

And here is the Leica promotional video:

All this mess caused the term “Leica” to get banned in China, which is weird since Leica partners with Huawei. Reuters reports that people searching for the term “Leica” in China receive warnings that they are violating laws.

Btw, Der Spiegel‘s article about the Leica video is titled “Real Photographers use Nikon” :-)

Camera Market In Loss, CIPA March Report Suggests

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The CIPA March 2019 report doesn’t draw a good picture of the camera market.

It’s in loss, as various execs in the industry have already stated, with the notable exception of Fujifilm (guess they are the only company with good reasons to be optimistic).

In their reports about the Q1 Financials, Canon sees smartphones as the major reason for the shrinking camera market. More and more people switch to a smartphone for their photography, and with phones having a sensor and the optical performance of the Huawei P30 Pro it’s understandable. The future is in computational photography, a domain where smartphone will have an advantage in the foreseeable future.