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Canon’s New EOS-1D Mark IV Gets Real

eos-1d-mark-IVCanon this morning in the wee hours when I was decidedly not awake announced their newest pro body, the long-awaited EOS-1D Mark IV. It’s direct predecessor, the Mark III, had just been announced before I hired on here at Roberts, so the announcement of the Mark IV is something of a milestone for me, personally.

Now, getting past the sentimentals, here’s what you need to know:

1. The Mark IV continues the tradition of the 1D line in using an ASP-H sensor with a 1.3x crop factor. The full-frame chips remain a hallmark of the studio-oriented 1Ds line, and of course the 5D series. It’s up now to 16.1 megapixels, and keeps dual-processors (now the DIGIC IV models).

2. It has an all new 45-point autofocus system (39 of which become the more accurate cross-type points with an aperture of f2.8 or wider). Did we  mention it’s all new and reportedly exhaustively field tested?

3. Canon is showing a rare conservative streak, and the continuous shooting mode is throttled back to 10 frames per second (versus the blistering 14 of its predecessor).

4. 1080p video. Really, were you expecting them to leave this out after the 5D Mark II, Rebel T1i, and 7D all got it? If you were, shame on you. If you weren’t, ta-da! HD video for everybody!

5. Expanded ISO. The Mark IV sport an expanded ISO range of 100 – 102,400 (which seems somehow familiar)

Those seem to be the key points, a lot of it is the stock stuff you’d expect from a camera at this price point. It keeps the 3″ 920,000 dot LCD, build, 1/300s EX shutter sync, 100% viewfinder, you get the point. Continuing the trend started with the EOS 7D, Canon’s announced a new wireless file transmitter for this beastie (and one for the 5D Mark II, too), for those of you who dig sending photos straight to a computer.

I shouldn’t have to say Get On Our Wait List Today, but it looks like I just did.



Canon Rebel T1i Review

Continuing this apparent ‘Review Friday,’ DCResource’s newest review is Canon’s second video-enabled body, the Rebel T1i. Sporting most of the same guts as the Canon 50D, at a lower price point and with video, the T1i is an attractive product on paper. Hop over to DCResource and you’ll experience their reviewer’s very paractical, every-man-every-day approach to reviewing equipment.



Memory’s cheap, kid

I have a steal for you – for $149.97 (plus shipping) you get a Hitachi Microdrive equipped with a cyclopean 2 gigabytes of storage. That’s a basement price $.074 a megabyte.

Shudder.

I’m not kidding about having Microdrives lurking in our warehouse (I think I’ll start referring to them as the Great Old Ones), gathering dust (or inspiring early twentieth century horror). My E-410 will take a Microdrive, but even my chimp-heavy shooting habits beg for better than 2mb/sec transfer rate. And how could I excuse that, what with our steal price of $39.97 for 4gb Ducati CF cards and persistent rebates on Sandisk extreme III and IV cards. And we’ve just added a new family of what I think I’ll have to call candy SDHC cards from easystore (no caps, really).

The easystore SDHC line consists of 2, 4, and 8gb cards for 6.97, 9.97, and 19.97 respectively. That makes for a wallet-busting $.0035 a megabyte on the 2 and $.0025 a megabyte on the 4 and 8 gigabyte units. Ouch.

I understand that they’re rated as SDA2.0 class 2 devices. I figure that means unless you’re the proud owner of a D5000, D90, or Rebel T1i and keen on using that video function or you really like continuous drive -these cards are A-OK for throwing in the bag as a back-up. Or at your 75 year old grandmother who owns an AE-1 and a Kodak Easyshare so old it’s got pictures of your last two ex-girlfriends on it…not that I know anyone like that.



Spring Expo 2009: Canon’s New T1i

Well, it’s a new week, and the sales floor lacks the excitement and bustle of last week’s Expo, but thanks to the joy of cheap video cameras (and we do so love our Flip), we have several quick product demos yet to give you. Up this time is Canon, and we have the ever-lovable Amanda giving us a quick and dirty talk about the newest Canon with video: the Rebel T1i.



New Rebel T1i, pretty, but not Summer Glau

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Whew. Just updated our website to indicate that we do know about the new Canon Rebel T1i / 500D and while it’s not likely to protect the young John Connor, it’s definitely an exciting addition to the Canon EOS Rebel line-up.

I mean, full HD video from a D-SLR for under a thousand dollars is pretty thrilling, yeah?

While Canon’s marketing on the 5d Mark II’s video capability has been slick, I haven’t heard yet from the nine people who have them whether they’ve had much occasion to use it.

Whether that functionality is needed, pushing what can fit in the chassis of a camera is the sort of competition I like to see. While Derek ::points over there:: likes to point out that we ought to be concerned with taking pictures, and we should (heck, he and I were out this morning in the damp -look for fruits of the shoot later), I’d like to close noting the importance of forward momentum in product design and functionality.




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