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New Firmware 1.0.3 fixes Canon EOS 50D’s Err99

By Daniel Lim on Tuesday, Oct 28th 2008 No Comments

canon err99 Like the infamous Windows’s BSOD, Err99 is Canon’s DSLR dreaded error code for general operation failure. Whenever that’s a contact issue between lenses and body, bad battery, defective storage card or any ill exception to camera operation, the body will lock up and throw a catch-all error code of 99. No blue screen of death but the user has to remove and reinsert battery to get the camera up and running again once the error occurred. If you google err99, there are endless results of problems and suggested solutions to the must-distressed issue.

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Canon releases Manual for EOS 5D Mark II- A look at Video features

By Daniel Lim on Friday, Oct 24th 2008 No Comments

canon 5d mark ii manual The latest development is still late November before you can get your hands on the revolutionary EOS 5D Mark II. While we wait patiently for our unit, the manufacturer has released a complete manual for the year most anticipate release in Digital Cameras industry, stills and motions- a game changing camera, said the reviewer.

In previous coverages, readers have raised questions mainly on the video features such as exposure control and recording capacity. We flipped though 228 pages of goodies and listed the answers here.

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Olympus Limited Edition Komachi kit makes a great Gift Set

By Daniel Lim on Friday, Oct 24th 2008 No Comments

Can’t wait for the new E-System? Need a compact DSLR for the holiday’s season? Olympus is offering its limited edition E-420 Komachi Kit for the Holidays. A bundle kit comes with the company’s ultra compact 10-megapixel E-420 DSLR, a thin profile ZUIKO 25mm 1:2.8 Digital pancake lens with a retro handmade leather case and strap; packs together accessories like a 1GB CF card, LCD lens protector and a lens cloth. Is that not a perfect holiday gift box or what?

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Olympus, Panasonic & Sigma DSLR lenses get joint update system

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Oct 15th 2008 No Comments

Olympus, Panasonic and Sigma have collaborated to launch an online firmware update service for Four Thirds compliant DSLR lenses. The system will allow owners of Four Thirds lenses to update their optics even when using cameras made by another manufacturer; in the past, a DSLR camera body and Four Thirds lens had to be from the same company in order for firmware updates to work.

four thirds joint updates

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More 5D Mark II, full size HD video clips get releases from DPR

By Daniel Lim on Friday, Oct 10th 2008 No Comments

canon5dmarkII small The EOS Canon 5D mark II has captured world attention since its launch at Photokina few weeks ago. One of the reasons is its industry’s first video capability at 1080P, low light and virtually noise free high iso motion capture. We’ve seen the REVERIE Video footage and full size releases by Vincent Laforent, it was nothing short of amazing coming from a DLSR camera; we also collect other video samples released here, but footage with AF engaged while panning and tracking has yet to witness. DPR has posted couple more full size video clips shot with beta release today. The videos exhibit panning sequence but simply too short to judge its quality and value.

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Sony SLDR A900 has the highest in-camera write speed

By Daniel Lim on Thursday, Oct 9th 2008 No Comments

With the variety of flash-based media cards in the market, how could you tell which works the best on your high speed Digital camera? Does the lightening fast Sandisk Ducati or Extreme IV series CompactFlash warrant the premium price for your DSLR? Rob Galbraith has the answer for you; they’ve been testing in camera writing speed in both Jpeg and Raw format on numbers of popular Digital SLR for ages. Their latest updates are Nikon D90, Canon EOS 50D and Sony A900; and the latter tops 35MB/S write speed with Sandisk Ducati CompactFlash.

sony a900 sandisk

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Canon’s 1Ds Mark IV rumor and two new lenses?

By Daniel Lim on Monday, Oct 6th 2008 4 Comments

rumor With current Mark III barely 18 months in production, it’s too early to predict for a replacement? You’ve seen the new 50D Canon launched 6 months earlier, broke its usual 18 months product cycle for the prosumer model, why not the 1 series? In additional to company’s Mark III AF hoopla, rivalry like Nikon with recent huge successes on D3 is breathing down Canon’s neck. The pro-sport venues has seen the return of black lenses in decade at large margin. I wouldn’t be surprised to see the next Canon Mark IV come out earlier than predicted, and likely to pack with jaw-dropping features to regain the market share. Let’s see what the Chinese has to say about the next 1Ds Mark IV.

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Nikon MX rumors: 40.7MP medium-format DSLR in early 2009

By Chris Davies on Monday, Sep 29th 2008 1 Comment

It’s probably safest to switch your sceptic-levels (and microscope) to high, but this minuscule picture could be Nikon’s upcoming MX DSLR. Believed to be the company’s next medium-format camera, its been suggested that the MX will offer 40.7-megapixel shots at 6380 x 6380 resolution. Nikon have promised a big announcement at the Wedding & Portrait Photographer International (WPPI) expo, held in February 2009, and some are speculating that the MX will be the star attraction.

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Canon 5D Mark II’s Raw Video footages from REVERIE, one word: STUNNING!

By Daniel Lim on Saturday, Sep 27th 2008 4 Comments

If you’ve followed our coverage on Vincent’s 5D Mark II, then you already seen the short film presentation-Reverie. I’ll say he has done an amazing job and the video image quality is excellent came out from a $2,700 Digital SLR. That was a downsized demonstration to a QHD at 960×540, and the pixel-peepers have demanded a full 1080P raw footage after the release. Here they are. Three raw videos straight out of the camera at full resolution of 1080p, “untouched in terms of color correction, exposure correction, noise correction – nothing was done to them whatsoever.” Believe us, Canon will sell a ton of 5D Mark II.

[update : Canon has removed the video clips below due to high demands and apparently have exceeded the download capacity]

Our reader “MODERN ART” has kindly provided an alternate download options to the clips (read comment below)

Links to raw video below;

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Vincent Laforent’s REVERIE, shot with Canon EOS 5D Mark II is up

By Daniel Lim on Monday, Sep 22nd 2008 No Comments

Quarter of million hits and over 500 comments for a personal blog in a short two days is impressive. All these excitement and fuss just waiting to see an amateur videographer’s footage, taken with a $2,700 Digital SLR camera in video capture option; Is it crazy or what? See our previous cover here. So the highly anticipated short film, titled REVERIE is finally out, see it for yourself. Don’t miss it if you are a Digital SLR fan, because the lenses used to produce the film cost about $20,000!