Canon Australia offers a respectable set of short video tutorials for beginners and not, named BLINK: Photography Tips for Beginners, covering everything you want to learn in short, simple and fun videos. The series of photography tutorials covers the fundamentals to help you get the basics right.
Click here to access BLINK: Photography Tips for Beginners video tutorials.
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Sony’s new SD memory card, touted as the world’s fastest memory cards, are available for pre-order:
The new Sony memory cards will be available in April 2017. Sony press release after the break.
Click the image above to get a bigger view (courtesy lensvid.com)
Our friends at LensVid posted their annual analysis about the photography industry. They put an extensive look into what happened in the photography market in 2016. And things do not look good, definetly not.
To sum up the figures immediately: LensVid computed there was 81% less volume in 2016 than in 2010. This seems to be a pretty drammatic figure, which makes me wonder for how long the industry can cope with it. And it is not just about compact cameras, but DSLRs, MILCs, and lenses too.
Some points that are worth to spend a thought or two about.
I do not know if what is listed above explains what is going on. For sure always less people believes the “mirrorless-is-for-pros” fairy tale, and the whole mirrorless hype is going to slow down. That smartphones cut a significant market share was already known. And likely the young and very young would never think to start shooting with a DSLR instead of their smartphone.
LensVid also made some (cautious) predictions:
If this story catches your interest, the video above takes you further, or you can head over to LensVid for the whole story.
I reported previously about a global shutter sensor Canon is researching and developing. This sensor made it into the news again. Nikkei Technology reports about the Canon 2/3″ sensor with global shutter and wide dynamic range, which was first presented at ISSCC 2017.
From the ISSCC 2017 lecture, Nikkei reports:
The size, pixel count, pixel pitch and power consumption of the sensor are 2/3 inches, 2,592 x 2,054, 3.4μm and 450mW, respectively. In a demonstration after the lecture, the company used the sensor to take a picture of an electric fan whose blades are turning […]
Through […] improvements, Canon doubled the saturated amount of electric charge and widened dynamic range. Specifically, it increased the saturated amount of electric charge from 8,100 electrons with a frame rate of 120fps to 16,200 electrons with a frame rate of 60fps.
The dark temporal noise of the new sensor is 1.8 electronsrms. As a result, its dynamic range is 79dB with a frame rate of 60fps and reaches 111dB when HDR is applied.
Well let’s hope we see such a sensor in a Canon DSLR soon. Besides this utopian wishes, this is another report that shows Canon’s commitment to develop innovative sensor technology.
The slides below are from the ISSCC 2017 presentation.
After the interview with Sigma‘s CEO, DPReview posted another interview taken at CP+ in Japan. They poke with Go Tokura, Executive Officer and Chief Executive for Image Communication Business Operation and Yoshiyuki Mizoguchi, Group Executive of ICB Products Group, Image Communication Business Operation.
Some excerpts from the interview:
Where do you see most demand for 4K, and are you beginning to see beginners ask for 4K video?
Whether you’re a professional or at the entry-level, you likely want high-quality video. And we think there is potential for the entry-level to grow. So we will obviously be looking at introducing our 4K technologies down to the entry-levels at some point.
But introducing 4K to the entry-level is linked to the 4K TV market. How quickly that takes off and penetrates will tell us how and when we should introduce 4K to more affordable cameras.
The EOS M series continues to expand. What is the long term goal of the M series in terms of market share?
That is a difficult question to respond to with a simple answer because we don’t have a particular number set in terms of getting the market share for the mirrorless market. This is because we are a company that produces [both mirrorless and DSLR], as a total package.
Our intention is to become number one in the overall ILC market: mirrorless and SLR. Different regions would have different penetration and different market share of mirrorless products.
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