Rumored Specs for Canon’s Upcoming Rebel T4i/650D
Thus-far rumors about the Canon Rebel T4i/650D have been relegated to the “it’s definitely coming” category, but yesterday Canon Rumors posted a short spec list that they believe to be fairly accurate. The rumored specs as they now stand would have the new Rebel sporting an 18MP sensor, 9 cross-type AF points, a touchscreen LCD...
Software To Replace Photographers [The Ones That Deserve It]
Photographer Mark Meyers just wrote up a nice enough story aimed at driving awareness fear in professional photographers … fear about the future of their career, their well-being, their jobs. Depicted in that article this image at left, which was completely generated by the author of the post using an emerging 3d modeling software...
Learning Speedlights – The First Step in Expanding Your Photography with Lighting
Beginner or emerging photographer? Well, once you know what’s happening with your camera and all those dials, it’s time to take on lighting and flash photography. In taking that next step – learning to light – you can do almost anything, and nothing opens up this opportunity more effectively and affordably than working with Speedlights,...
Canon Patents Inaccurate EXIF Data for Shooters Concerned with Privacy
9 out of 10 adults in America believe that people are over-sharing sensitive personal information. One culprit is the GPS-enabled camera, which can reveal exactly where you were at a specific time by baking the information into photos. If you’re uncomfortable with how specific this EXIF data is, Canon has a solution: fuzzy accuracy. The...
Canon Dropping Humans From Assembly Lines, May Go Fully Robotic by 2015
In sharp contrast to the Leica way of doing things by hand, Canon has just announced that it is planning on completely eliminating the need for a human production line as early as 2015. So while your future Leica M10 will still be completely hand-made (with a price tag to match), your future 5D Mark...
Hardcore Durability Test Looks to See Just How Much the Canon 7D Can Take
It goes without saying that nobody should ever test their camera’s limits where durability is concerned (so please, don’t try any of this at home); but in the interest of science (or lunacy?) someone volunteered their Canon 7D and asked the folks over at DigitalRev to see just how much the camera could really take...
Canon May Announce Its First Mirrorless Camera Before Summer
There have been a lot of rumors over the last month or two regarding Canon’s imminent entry into the mirrorless world; and it now seems that we won’t have to wait much longer before finding out. According to Canon Rumors, the new camera with its rumored APS-C sensor and 18-45mm kit lens could be announced...
Canon HDSLRs in action scenes on “Marvel’s The Avengers”
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An In-Depth Comparison of the Canon 5D Mark III and Nikon D800
Can’t decide between the Canon 5D Mark III and Nikon D800? Dave Dugdale of Learning DSLR Video created this helpful video that offers a pretty comprehensive comparison of the cameras. It’s a bit heavy on the videography applications of the camera, but should be quite informative nevertheless if you’re at all interested in these cameras....
Canon extends “Project Imagin8ion” campaign with Ron Howard
Tweet Pin It Tweet Canon announced this morning that they’re extending the “Project Imagin8ion” campaign with Ron Howard again at the helm. CANON U.S.A. PARTNERS WITH LEGENDARY FILMMAKER RON HOWARD FOR YEAR TWO OF THE “LONG LIVE IMAGINATION” CAMPAIGN Can't see the video in your RSS reader or email? Click Here! Press Release The Multi-Platform Campaign...
First Look: EOS C500, featuring 4K RAW Output – A Canon Hollywood event
Tweet Pin It Tweet If you’re in the LA area and available this coming May 10th, and are interested in learning more about the Canon EOS C500, then this Canon Live Learning event is perfect for you! First Look: EOS C500, featuring 4K RAW Output Presented by: Canon Live Learning Program: Professional Development Seminars &...
Lensrentals discovers the fix to the Canon EOS 5D Mark III metering problem
Tweet This just posted on twitter… So, we’re not sure this is the ‘real’ solution, maybe just an interim fix for those cameras in the pipeline, but as long as it works, what do we care? More data on their blog! Hopefully people will stop calling it a “light leak” but one can only hope....
