Nauticam announced the NA-5DMKIII, an underwater housing for the Canon EOS 5D Mark III. The cool thing: you can take your 5D Mark III down to 150 meters (490 feet) under the water. That’s a lot, believe me (I did a lot of scuba diving in my youth).
Retail price is $4,100, shipping since October 2014.
[via divephotoguide]By Adobe Photoshop on YouTube:
The Photoshop CC 2014.2 update has arrived. Check out features like New Doc Presets, New Guide Layouts, Layouts based on a shape, Smarter smart guides, Overscrolling preference, Creative Cloud libraries, and Extract.
Adobe’s Photoshop Photography Program, i.e. Lightroom and Photoshop, is $9.99 a month.
This was posted on Canon Watch’s Facebook page. If you do not know what Canon’s See Impossible campaign is have a look here.
The parody above says:
THIS MESSAGE IS CREATED OUT OF FEAR, DOUBT, AND FALLING SALES.
You want a camera system which keeps up with the latest technology. You want us to innovate, take risks, add features that are standard for other manufacturers, and you tell us this is possible.
You want us to invest in advanced sensors which excel in low light, color reproduction and dynamic range, you want 4K video, an EVF and high frame rates in a reasonably priced camera.
You say, “It can be done.”
To all of you, we apologize.
Because we don’t see what you see. We see an expensive line of cinema cameras we must protect, and a road map of painfully slow iterations so there’s always a reason for you to spend more money. You love what Sony, Panasonic and even Samsung are doing, and you see opportunity, you see ingenuity, you see POSSIBLE.
AT CANON, WE SEE IMPOSSIBLE.
Update: the site is live now
I think the mystery is solved (thanks to a comment in the previous post).
Canon’s See Impossible is a marketing campaign where the company tries to focus less on products and more onto customers.
Canon’s campaign centers around a new microsite, which houses a series of digital videos that highlight how customers use a range of products. One 45-second clip shows how an author used the technology to self-publish her book. Going forward, Canon will expand the site’s content to include submissions from consumers and clients.
This is what we will see as soon as the counter reaches zero (9am EST, 2pm central European time):
A 3-D visual of an expanding box on the page divvies up different pieces of content. For example, clicking on one section of the box triggers a “create” experience to show how the products work. Other tabs highlight customers’ stories and additional information about the brand.
So, no new revolutionary sensor, no pro-grade mirrorless cam, no new glass :-) Still an interesting project. Two videos are already online on Youtube.
Canon press release:
Canon U.S.A. Unveils “Canon See Impossible” – A Branding Effort Empowering The Creative Spirit In Customers To Make The Impossible Possible
From Hollywood Films to Publishing and Medical Technologies, New Inspirational Brand Ethos Spotlights the Breadth of the Company’s Capabilities and Contributions to Developing Imaging Technologies that Showcase the Impossible for Customers
MELVILLE, N.Y., October 7, 2014 – Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging solutions, is proud to announce “Canon See Impossible” – a branding effort aimed to inspire customers to see impossible with Canon products. As part of the companywide marketing initiative, the iconic brand will roll out a new logo visual to include the addition of the “Canon See Impossible” tagline, accompanied by a 3-D visual of an expanding box, symbolizing the Company’s desire to break the boundaries of what is possible and shift the focus from Canon as being solely a manufacturer of quality digital imaging products to a Company that empowers the creative spirit within its people and customers.
Central to the new marketing initiative, the light within the borderless box represents the dedication the Company has to building new collaboration paths with both consumers and commercial clients to constantly innovate and to challenge convention. As the next chapter in the Company’s long history unfolds, Canon is working to listen, adapt, and build a prescient understanding of the changing market forces it faces today and the opportunities they present.
Creative is featured on seeimpossible.usa.canon.com, a digital hub housing consumer, professional, and commercial stories of inspiration, imagination, and innovative end-user applications of Canon imaging technology.
“As a technology-based brand, Canon is constantly challenged to empower its customers in today’s high-tech and fast-paced world in which new apps and innovations are launching every single day,” said Joe Adachi, Chairman and CEO, Canon U.S.A., Inc. “With imagination and customer focus at the core of the Canon business model, ‘Canon See Impossible’ will highlight the combined technological innovation and human ingenuity that makes the impossible possible. Our new rallying cry will extract creative thinking from a place of isolation, encourage exploration of the unknown, and showcase our creativity as it impacts the real world with limitless possibilities.”
Thank you very much Frenky!
The whole “Canon see impossible” thing showed up on Youtube, with 2 videos:
Canon See Impossible: Beyond Photography, Director (above) and Canon See Impossible: Beyond Photography, Author (below).
Still it is not entirely clear to me what it is. Looks like a sort of self-producing and self-publishing platform.
Update: as a reader noted in the comments section, we will see something at 9am EST (2pm central European time). That’s what I have been told too.
It’s a while that we reached zero count here in Europe. Still the site does not show anything new. Be aware that the counter is location based, in the US there is still some time to go, in Asia it reached zero count since hours.
Something more or any news from other parts of the globe?
More on this in a previous post.
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