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Canon Instant Lens Savings With Purchase Of Select EOS Bodies

Click To See Full Promotion and Rebates!

For all you loyal Canonistas who’ve been waiting patiently for a hot new lens rebate program, wait no more for it is upon us! The one fly in the ointment this years is they’re all in combination with body purchases, a promotion logic which the current build of our website doesn’t support. So, rather than look liking we’re pulling a fast one when the price isn’t reflected in the cart, we’re asking you to call us at 1-800-726-5544 where our helpful mail-order staff can fully and completely take care of you. You’re looking at savings of up to $280 for your troubles, so, give the promos a look over, then give us a call. We’re waiting.



Canon’s New XF100 and XF105 Camcorders Are Professional, Also Small

If you’re a pro in the market for a new camcorder, you might be interested in Canon’s newest announcements. The nearly-identical twins known as the XF100 and XF105 claim to be Canon’s smallest pro cams to date, and still feature the XF codec from the XF300 and XF305 (for those who’d forgotten,  that’s an MPEG-2 4:2:2 50Mbps video codec, it is). Both models record to hot-swappable CF cards, 10x Optically Stabilized HD zoom lenses, DIGIC DV III processing engines, infrared low-light recording, and features to help align two of them for use in recording ridiculously high-quality 3-D footage.

The two models are differentiated merely by the XF105 having HD-SDI output and genlock in/SMPTE time code terminals.

You can read Canon’s full press release after the jump.

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Canon’s brand new L zooms -EF 8-15 f/4L and EF 70-300 f/4.5-5.6L IS USM

All new from Canon comes the EF 70-300 f/4-5.6L IS USM, jumping right to the four-stop IS compensation tech and a minimally described
function that prevents erroneous operation when the lens is mounted on a tripod or monopod
-so I’m curious about whether it’s an “ON/OFF” switch or some hyper-intelligent artificial life-form that subsists in the flourite lens elements or the Flourine coating. We’ll see what our technical rep Brian Matsumoto says. It’s also got the dust and water resistant design of the other lenses we’ve discussed today.
The other new lens is an 8-15mm Fisheye Zoom. That’s delightful – a six inch close focusing distance, as fast an aperture as you’d expect from a fisheye, and 180 degree diagonal angle of view for APS-C and Full Frame formats. The EF 8-15mm f/4L Fisheye USM also features
a new fluorine anti-smear coating is applied to the front and rear elements to make lens cleaning easier than ever.
Which should bring some reassurance to the folks accustomed to putting protector filters on their lenses.
Check Canon’s press release at the source link for more deets about availability and Estimated Selling Price.


Canon’s refresh of four lenses, beyond amazement.

The Refresh line up is as follows:
The EF 1.4X Extender and the EF 2x Extender which are supposed to offer faster autofocus and  improved autofocus precision. There’s also talk of “an anomalous dispersion lens element for reduced chromatic aberration” -whether this is new from the Series II teleconverters, I’m not certain. They’ve also got this high-falutin new flourine anti-smear coating -somehow repelling both oil and water for cleaning with a dry cloth -and this coating is applied to all six new lenses. They also kept the weather sealing.
The refreshed EF 300 2.8 IS II USM has been beaten and starved to 82.9 ounces for decreased reliance on mono and tripods. It’s also been given adamantium bones… read more


Canon Announces Everything

So’s I walk in this morning to eager to stick a bunch of used gear into a light tent to keep fleshing out our Used presence online when I’m waylaid by the Grober. He says to me, he says, ”Canon announced everything today, I need you on the blog.”
Here I am, your faithful servant.
So what’s Canon releasing? A smorgasboard of L glass and an EOS 60D.


Canon Creates 120 Megapixel APS-H Sensor

Well, Canon has announced an APS-H (their 1.3x crop sensor used in the 1D series) with a jaw-dropping 120 megapixels. And, if that wasn’t showing off enough, they say it can have the data pulled off it at a rate of 9.5 frames a second. Double-yowza. As for when this’ll be economically feasbile commercially, who knows, a lot of websites are saying we won’t see it in our lifetimes, but obviously Moore’s Law suggests something closer to 3 years from now before it even becomes viable commercially. But, whatever, Canon’s pulled it off now, whether they ever sell it, and that’s quite an accomplishment in its own right. Bravo, big red.



Canon Also Graces Us With A PowerShot SX130 IS

And the updates today just keep on trucking. This is Canon’s PowerShot SX130 IS, and obvious replacement for the SX120 IS. This time around we’re looking at a 12x optical stabilized zoom starting at 28mm equivalent, matched to 12 megapixels on a 1/2.3″ chip. It continues to be of that new, mid-size body design (anyone remember when super-zooms like this were almost the size of a DSLR on their own?).

Pricing is going to be around $250ish, it looks, which is in keeping with this type of camera.



Canon’s PowerShot SD4500 IS Has 10x Zoom

And, to round out the day, this straggler is the PowerShot SD4500 IS. And possibly the most memorable thing about it is that for some reason it appears to only be available in brown. How bizarre.

Under that earthy exterior lies a fair length of ELPH pedigree, and if the SD4500 IS offers no surprises it’s because there’s really very little this line has needed in the way of changes. Of most note is the sizey 10x soom it sports, though it’s a bit long at the wide end, only making it to 36mm equivalent. But, if a sleek, metal, pocketable cam with a good amount of zoom is your ticket, this’ll be your ticket to ride.



Canon Announces PowerShot S95 Raw-Capable Compact

For all you Canonistas out there who’ve patiently sat through all that Nikon, here’s one for you. Canon has announced the new PowerShot S95, an update to address the (admittedly few) complaints with last year’s S90. The lens, imager, and processor remain just as they were, why mess with a good thing? The body is now even slimmer, they’ve made some changes to the control ring, and it’s now finished with the same sruface that the 7D is, to help improve grip.

Oh! And it has 720p video now. That’s nice, isn’t it?

It continues to be 10 megapixels, and to have a 3.8x optical and optically stabilized zoom starting at f2 and 28mm equiv, and a 3″ 461,000 dot LCD. It also shoots to RAW, and has manual exposure controls and PAS modes.

We’re unsure when it’ll be hitting, but the MSRP is $399.99, and you can hit up our preorder form on our site to throw your name down for one whenever they do show up.