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Canon Cinema EOS 8K Camera with EF 24-70mm f/2.8L II USM Lens
Canon has several different configurations of its new Cinema EOS 8K camera on display at the Canon Expo in New York this week. The 8K cinema camera was announced as an in-development product earlier this week.
See several more views of the new camera in the photos below. [Read more…]
I got a closer look at the 120MP prototype DSLR today at the Canon Expo.
First off, Canon has an actual working prototype that they were shooting live images at the full 120MP resolution on the Expo floor. [Read more…]
Canon showed off the EF 600mm f/4L DO BR lens today at the Canon Expo in New York. It is substantially shorter than the current EF 600mm f/4L IS II USM lens thanks to the diffractive optics inside. [Read more…]
Yesterday, Apple announced the new iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus, among a number of other new products. Notably, the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus will see an upgrade in the resolution of the rear camera. This marks the first resolution upgrade to the camera since the iPhone 4S launched in 2011.
12MP is hardly a shocking resolution upgrade in today’s world of 50MP DSLRs and 120MP DSLRs around the corner; however, it is important because Apple is also adding 4K video capture. [Read more…]
Think Tank Photo has announced new leather versions of its popular Retrospective series.
The Retrospective 5 Leather, Retrospective 7 Leather, and Retrospective 30 Leather are upscale, rugged shoulder bags that maintain the Retrospective’s casual, form-fitting design. A new Dual Cross buckle on the front flap provides an extra measure of security. The new shoulder bags are designed to hold tablets and laptops in dedicated zipper pockets.
They range in price from $199.75 to $259.75. Check them out here on Think Tank Photo’s website.
The Canon Expo comes to New York this week. Canon does this every five years to showcase its innovations designed for a broad range of industries, from healthcare to business and manufacturing to the arts.
The Canon Expo kicks off Thursday, September 10 at the Javits Center and will run through Friday, September 11. Canon highlights is current product lines but also shows off new tech that is in development.
We’ve already seen announcements this week for a new Canon Cinema EOS 8K camera and a 120MP DSLR. Stay tuned for what else we might see on the show floor the rest of the week.
You can learn more about the expo here on the Canon Expo website.
B&H has a pair massive lenses on display in its used department right now and are a couple of real deals. You can grab the pair of lenses for $197,000 total. [Read more…]
In this short video, Jared Platt shows how to freeze motion using high-speed sync with the Profoto B1 and B2 heads, which work with TTL flash systems on Canon and Nikon DSLRs.
While he demos the Profoto kit, the same rules apply to smaller speedlight kits and other TTL monolights and flash heads. With purely manual flash communication, however, you are limited to the sync speed of your camera (often around 1/200s) and won’t be able to freeze that motion.
In this short video, Gary Fong takes a look at full frame, APS-C and 1.0-type cameras to see how the depth of field is affected at the same effective focal lengths.
The challenge, of course, is that you must change the actual focal length of your lens to accommodate the same field of view on cameras with different sensor sizes. Invariably, this changes the depth of field so that the camera with the smaller sensor appears to have a much greater depth of field, while the full frame camera has a much shallower depth of field.
Gary’s demo is a nice practical demonstration of how these different camera sensors provide different images when shooting the same scene from the same position.
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As if the Canon EOS 5Ds wasn’t enough already at 50MP, Canon has announced that it is developing a 120MP DSLR.
Canon says that “[t]he camera under development is being designed to facilitate a level of resolution more than sufficient for large-format printing and extensive cropping capability while maintaining fantastic image quality.”
Canon notes that the camera is built for the current EF system lenses; however, it will apparently not be compatible with all of the lenses in the Canon EF line. According to a footnote in Canon’s press release, “Out of the 96 lenses that make up the EF lens lineup, 60 models will be compatible with the [new 120MP DSLR].” [Read more…]