Canon may announce a new 50mm f/1.8 STM lens very soon, according to Canon Rumors:
We’re told production of the Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 STM has commenced and we can expect an announcement in late March or early April with availability coming soon after.
I rate the rumour CW3.
I and others on the web have been told that Canon may announce a new 35mm “L” lens later this year, possibly before Fall 2015. While we do not have any specs or other information, I was told that some prototypes are already out in the wild undergoing testing. I strongly suppose this will be a f/1.4 lens, also because we had some patents filed by Canon pointing in this direction (1 | 2).
It turned out to be a fake. The rumor that surfaced yesterday was just a hoax. Canon Rumors did the investigative work, and says:
The camera in the image is the C500 PL mount with some “work” done to fit the larger 34mm sensor and a longer base to fit the “X”, which in itself makes no sense. We’re also told that most PL lenses wouldn’t work with a 34mm wide sensor.
However, there are new Canon Cinema cameras coming for NAB 2015, the EOS C300 Mark II and EOS C500 Mark II. Both rated CW4. Stay tuned…
Canon Rumors is pretty sure it will:
We’ve been told for a while now that we’d be seeing a 4K Cinema EOS C300 Mark II at NAB 2015 in Las Vegas this coming April. We can now also confirm we’ll also get to see a new Cinema EOS C500 Mark II at the show.
Stay tuned..
Hard to say if this is a reliable rumor, or not. Image and specs of an unseen Canon EOS C700x leaked over the web. There is more. According to the rumours, Canon may planing the introduction of global shutter and 4K video in the EOS Cinema lineup. It would also mean Canon is going to introduce a new model in their Cinema line-up. I prefer to rate this rumor CW3 for the time being.
The supposed specs are:
- Effective Pixels: 4096 x 2160 Pixels; Approx: 8.85-megapixel
- Sensor Type: CMOS; Global Shutter
- Sensor Size 34.2 x 18.0; Cell Pitch: 8.2µm
- Compression: 10-bit MPEG-2 Long GOP
- Color Space: 4:4:4
- Imaging Processor: DIGIC DV IIIa
- GPS Location Sensor
- MEMS Orientation Sensor
- Extended Metadata Stream:*
- All Frames Recorded with Following Data
- GPS: Lat; Long; (degrees decimal) Elevation (meters)
- Compass/Heading: (magnetic and degrees from true north)
- MEMS Orientation: Roll; Yaw; Pitch (degrees decimal)
- Date
- Clock Time (HH:MM:SS.MILLISECONDS)
- Elapsed Time (HH:MM:SS.MILLISECONDS)
- SMPTE Timecode
- Scene-Based and Continuous-Run Frame Numbers (set from menu or app)
- Shot Number/Scene Number/Text Description (set from menu or app)
- Focus/Zoom/Iris/ISO
(*all metadata embedded as separate track into saved MOV file with simultaneous live output to USB port)
About our rumor rating:
A weird rumor was posted at Canon Rumors. A “test camera” is mentioned, which “could” be the EOS 5D Mark IV. However, the specs are weird:
While we were the first to report that he 5D4 will have 4k video ob board, it looks somewhat strange that Canon will lower the megapixel count on the EOS 5D Mark IV. It’s 22MP on the EOS 5D Mark III and I can’t really figure out while it should be 18MP on the next iteration. The rest of the suggested specs are at least credible. But then: I think Canon will feature a new auto-focus system on the 5D4. I think the 5D4 rumor I got some weeks ago is more realistic.
I rate this rumor as CW1 since it doesn’t sound very plausible to me. What do you think?
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