A heads-up on the year most anticipated Digital SLR, Canon USA will be shipping the Canon EOS 5D mark II to networked dealers staring tomorrow. That means some of you early adopters should get their hands on the first shipment by the end of the week! Unlike the Canadian’s price raise, Canon sticks to the schedule and plan for US launch, it will be selling at original retail price of $2,699.
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Canon EOS 5D Mark II ships tomorrow
No more Photoshop, FotoNation FaceEnchance mimicking soft filter at hardware level
If you owned a digital camera- Digital SLR, P&S or cell phone with camera function, you probably have heard of or seen the feature SmileCheck, Face Detection, Blink Detection or the likes that suppose to assist you in getting a perfectly in focused and sharp images for every Kodak moment at hardware layer. But if you’ve done portrait of any girls, a tack sharp image may not always ends up they would have wanted. Too revealing of their facial imperfection, they would said. Well, solving these problems in post processing are in the past, Fotonation has came out with a hardware level FaceEnhance gimmick for the beauty queens.
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New Olympus Four-Thirds Digital SLR is around the corner, Evolt E-30 with 12.3 MP sensor
Olympus announced the development of a new Four-Thirds complaint Digital SLR back at Photokina, with an estimate launch date in the first quarter of 2009. The announcement has come early; folks at Cnet have jumped the gun with an officially launch of the New EVOLT but the article was later pulled. So there you have it, the unnamed prototype at Germany has an official title, a 12.3 megapixel Olympus midrange E-30 EVOLT to bridge the gap between the E-3 and E-520.
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New Firmware 1.0.3 fixes Canon EOS 50D’s 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
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
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
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.
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More 5D Mark II, full size HD video clips get releases from DPR
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
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.
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Canon’s 1Ds Mark IV rumor and two new lenses?
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
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!
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 960x540, 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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