Read this interview by dpreview.com with one of Canon’s highest ranking executives at Photokina 2008 to find out what direction they may be going in the future. Good stuff that we don’t normally have access to: everything from Powershot to EOS 5D Mark II to the quality of their lenses.
Here is the movie Reverie, by Vincent Laforet, the Pulitzer prize winning photographer. It was created with the Canon EOS 5D Mark II, which many of you know by now as Canon’s latest digital SLR camera. The crazy part of this project is that the footage looks much better than most other cameras in the semi-pro price range, and this isn’t even a video camera! The sharpness, focus, and color are all excellent (especially since this is the RAW footage, it hasn’t even been through DI yet).
Learn more about Vincent Laforet and see his photographs by reading this interview by Canon. Be sure to read more about the Canon EOS 5D Mark II digital camera here at DP Review. I’m sure we’ll be seeing a lot more of this camera and its footage in the very near future.
Seeing the results of Vincent Laforet’s film shot with a pre-production model of the Canon EOS 5D Mark II gets me very excited about the unpredictability and inventiveness of our industry. We must be near the verge of quality-inducing breakdown of the basic (and proper) video creation process. Watch the stunning Digital SLR footage here yourselves:
Be sure to visit these behind the scenes videos:
UPDATE: Changed the link to Reverie. It’s now hosted through SmugMug.
Canon has just announced the successor to the EOS 40D: the new EOS 50D, named appropriately of course.
Now the sensor weighs in at a hefty 15.1 megapixels and claims to have the same processing speed as the previous model because of the updated Digic 4 sensor.
I’ve been using the Canon EOS 30D for the past couple years and love it. But at 8.1 megapixels, the resolution is not quite high enough to successfully submit the image to a site like iStockPhoto or print them large enough to occupy some more serious wall space. The 40D powered 10.1 megapixels, and the new 50D is ever more tempting.
The camera is due out in early October. Catch the details on the official product site here. Here’s hoping for an upcoming project to pay this one off…
[via Crave]
