Canon EOS M3 Hands-On and Previews Round-Up


First look at London Camera Exchange

Hi there. Another round-up of Canon EOS M3 previews and information.

Pre-order the EOS M3 at DigitalRev (ships internationally).

Canon EOS 5DS & 5DS R Technical Review by Tony Northrup (and thoughts on lens resolution)

Tony Northrup does an exhaustive technical review of Canon’s new EOS 5DS and 5DS R (preview videos). There is a lot of talk about resolution and how much resolution modern lenses have. He does some math do compute a “perceptual resolution”, i.e. an approximate figure of an optic’s resolution, to get an idea on how well a given lens could do on the 5DS and 5DS R sensor.

EOS 5DS and 5DS R previews and hands-on: Canon Japan’s EOS 5DS image and video samples and EOS 5DS R image samples. EOS 5DS and 5DS R preview at Photography Blog, hands-on and sample pics at ephotozine, preview at DPReview, CPN Europe Article, The Digital Picture. A tip about which lenses are best for the EOS 5DS at The Phoblographer. A more technical and in-depth article by CPN. First impression from the videographer’s point of view at EOSHD. Fotosidan interview with Mike Burnhill at CPS, Canon Europe to talk about the upcoming, high resolution Canon Eos 5Ds and 5Ds R (12min video). Hands-on video in Italian. Hands-on video in German.

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5ds

Canon EOS 5DS Low ISO Dynamic Range up to 2 Stops Better Than EOS-1D X?

5ds

Some interesting (and yet unverified) news coming from people testing a pre-production EOS 5DS surfaced.

Northlight Images received a comment from a user testing a pre-production 5DS with DPP4. It appears that at low ISO the dynamic range of the EOS 5DS is 1.5-2 stops better than the [shoplink 4119]EOS-1D X[/shoplink], while high ISO performance (i.e. ISO 6400) falls slightly behind the [shoplink 22664]EOS 7D Mark II[/shoplink]. The same comment/rumor says the 5DS sensor is similar to the 7D2 sensor from a technological point of view (puzzles me), and that the 5DS sensor has been tuned to deliver the best possible low ISO performance.

Another comment says that the colour filter array of the EOS 5Ds is much closer to the [shoplink 271]EOS-1Ds Mark III[/shoplink] than to the EOS-1D X.

First previews and hands-on: Canon Japan’s EOS 5DS image and video samples and EOS 5DS R image samples. EOS 5DS and 5DS R preview at Photography Blog, hands-on and sample pics at ephotozine, preview at DPReview, CPN Europe Article, The Digital Picture. A tip about which lenses are best for the EOS 5DS at The Phoblographer. A more technical and in-depth article by CPN. First impression from the videographer’s point of view at EOSHD. Fotosidan interview with Mike Burnhill at CPS, Canon Europe to talk about the upcoming, high resolution Canon Eos 5Ds and 5Ds R (12min video). Hands-on video in Italian. Hands-on video in German.

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Video below: Canon’s Chuck Westfall about the EOS 5DS.

[via Northlight Images]

(CW3) Canon EOS C300 Mark II Coming With 4K?

C300 Firmware

Canon Rumors got word that the next iteration of the EOS C300, the EOS C300 Mark II might have 4k video recording on board. They write:

[the C300 Mark II will] be a bigger update than the EOS C100 Mark II was to its predecessor. We’re also told it’s going to be priced very aggressively, to better compete with Sony’s FS7 which is $7999 USD.

Rumors stating that Canon is going 4k are not new. Here at CW we heard the EOS 5D Mark IV will feature 4k.