More techy news…sorry
March 25th, 2009. Filed under: Gear, Geek.
Kia ora tatou:
Just in today.
Canon have announced new models.
- 350D/400D/450D owners will soon be able to upgrade to the 15.1Mp 500D. Cool features you might like include ( note: taken from Canon Press release, so you might want to circle around the adjectives)
- * 15.1 Megapixel APS-C CMOS sensor
* Full HD movie recording with HDMI connection for viewing and playback on an HDTV
* ISO 100-3200 (expandable to 12800)
* 3.4 frames per second continuous shooting
* Max. 170 large JPEG images in a single burst
* 3.0″ ClearView LCD with Live View mode
* 9-point wide area AF with cross type centre point
* High speed DIGIC 4 performance and superb image quality
* EOS Integrated Cleaning System
* Full compatibility with Canon EF and EF-S lenses and EX-series Speedlites, including new Speedlite 270EX, TS-E 17mm f/4L and TS-E 24mm f/3.5L II - There are also two new printers, thePIXMA Pro9000 Mark II and PIXMA Pro9500 Mark II> acoording to the press release, they will feature
- A3+ and 14” wide professional inkjet printer
- 10 Single Inks
- Lucia Pigment Inks for image longevity
- Exceptional glossy media printing
- Striking neutral monochrome prints
- Archival prints on Fine Art media
- Adobe Photoshop Elements & Canon Easy PhotoPrint Pro Plug-In software supplied
- 16bits per channel photo printing
- Ambient Light Correction feature
- Wide range of third party media supported
- Flat media path
- DVD/CD Direct Printing
and will come bundled with
- Canon Easy-PhotoPrint Pro – advanced imaging plug-in for Adobe Photoshop CS/CS2/CS3/CS4/Elements 6.0 and Canon Digital Photo Professional 2.1 or later, allowing PIXMA Pro to be seamlessly integrated into the imaging workflow. Features include:
- RAW image printing (from Canon Digital Photo Professional and Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.0)
- Direct access to ICC colour profiles
- Monochrome mode, for printing colour data in black and white, with rich gradation and without colour casts
- Ambient Light Correction feature for accurate colour rendition under different lighting conditions (available only on systems running Windows Vista)
- Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.0 – powerful, easy-to-use photo editing software which allows users of non-Canon EOS D-SLR cameras to convert and print RAW files.
- Canon Colour Management Tool Pro*** – create custom ICC profiles easily with select X-Rite spectrophotometers
- Canon Easy-PhotoPrint EX – fully integrated user-friendly software for photo printing and creative projects, such as calendars or photo albums
- CD-LabelPrint – simplifies printing directly onto inkjet printable CDs and DVDs.
Those of you who use Internet Explorer ( I much prefer Firefox), can now download the final release candidate of Internet Explore 8. It is certainly an improvement on IE7 ( what isn’t?).
If you own a 1D III or 1DS III, then there is free AF fix for your cameras which is supposed to remedy AF inconsistency. You can find out more here.
Nga mihi
March 25th, 2009 at 16:54
And … did you see in the Press yesterday Photo Warehouse have 5D Mk III (yup Mark 3!) Canons in stock. I’m amazed you didn’t tell us about these sooner Tony!
March 25th, 2009 at 17:11
Andrew:
That will be the new model with 40Mp and the built-in grain of salt!
March 26th, 2009 at 15:57
For those that have 1D Mark III…
Canon has cleverly hidden this very helpful guide to AI Servo auto focus. It really helped me sort out the bjillions of confusing custom functions for auto focus. http://web.canon.jp/imaging/eosd/eos1dm3af/index.html
March 26th, 2009 at 20:34
Here’s an interesting thing, it may not be the right place for this but I think you’ll all appreciate it.
I took my 8 year old daughter out with me this afternoon on my daily trip of inspiration (ended up having a beer/ginger beer and enjoying each others company). I loaded a roll of Velvia in the film camera a few days ago and have been taking it along for some fun along with one of the other cameras. I made a few photos and we were sitting down enjoying our drinks in the afternoon sun, the film camera was on the table beside us and my girl asked to look at some of the images I had made. Sorry you can’t it’s a film camera I told her. ‘You what, don’t be stupid Dad’ she said grabbing the camera, she took a look at the back of the camera and gave me a look of bewilderment when there was no LCD. I did not realise my daughter had no idea of the concept of film photography. I use my Nikonos often when we go kayaking but in the fun and excitement of splashing in the ocean, photography isn’t discussed so I had never shown her how a film camera works.
I haven’t shot film much for around 6 years I reckon and here we have a new generation that has no clue of tradition photography.
Don’t worry, she will be brought up to speed very fast, I remember loading 120 film into my camera at her age!
March 27th, 2009 at 16:50
Isn’t that fascinating?
Interestingly, I ma more and more getting students of all ages who have never had a film experience!