5D Replacement - soon

1. 12 million full frame CMOS
2. 5 fps, max. 21 continuous shooting of raw images
4. 35 area subarea light metering system; central point metering available for the 3.5% central area
5. 15 point high accuracy cross focusng AF system. f2.8 high accuracy focusing available at the central focusing point
9. Mg-Al alloy body, dust proof, water proof
10. 14-bits DIGIC III processor
12. 16:9 shooting available at 8 million pixels


All this for under 1K!!! :O (would be awesome).
 
i cannot see what possible advantage 16:9 shooting has. sounds like a completely retarded option to me.

if canon are leaving the announce of the new 5D 3 years then the specs better be absolutely mind blowing.
 
nolimit said:
1. 12 million full frame CMOS
2. 5 fps, max. 21 continuous shooting of raw images
4. 35 area subarea light metering system; central point metering available for the 3.5% central area
5. 15 point high accuracy cross focusng AF system. f2.8 high accuracy focusing available at the central focusing point
9. Mg-Al alloy body, dust proof, water proof
10. 14-bits DIGIC III processor
12. 16:9 shooting available at 8 million pixels


All this for under 1K!!! :O (would be awesome).
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Imo it actually shouldn't be that hard to do if they decided the market was there.
e.g. look at Sony A700 specs:

1. 12Mp CMOS but APS-C rather than FF
2. it'll do that
3. dust reduction, yup
4. it's actually got 40 rather than 35, I can't remember exactly what the spot meter area is but iirc it is 3-4%
5. it has 11 with central double cross high accuracy f2.8 ability
6. it's 95% & 0.9x
7. 3" 930,000 pixel
8. iso 100-6400
9. Mg Al body with significant dust/waterproofing (better than EOS 40D's) but not totally weatherproof. Pentax K10D etc. are fully weatherproof & aren't dear though.
10. obviously Digic III is an existing Canon tech so that would be a given
11. HDMI, yup
12. 16:9, yup but it's 10MP iirc rather than 8Mp.
13. don't see why you wouldn't want as many lenses supported as possible - A700 supports both screw driven & SSM
14. 40D has LCD liveview so that shouldn't be a problem
15. grip again shouldn't be a problem although you probably wouldn't get the body & grip for under 1K

I paid under £700 for my UK supplied (not grey market) A700 body (which of course also has in-body IS) so if you look at what the specs are & what would need to be upgraded imo it should be doable for an extra £300 retail.
Whether they wanted to do it for that price, that's the question rather than could it be done ;)
 
olv said:
i cannot see what possible advantage 16:9 shooting has. sounds like a completely retarded option to me.

if canon are leaving the announce of the new 5D 3 years then the specs better be absolutely mind blowing.
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A bit like widescreen tv?

I have 16:9 on my compact and it's really nice. Trouble is then I get to waste loads of paper when printing.

Having said that, I don't see much use for a 16:9 dslr sensor. The change in sensor size wuold mean a crop of EF or EF-S lenses images to athe sensor, and you may as wekk do that in pchop.
 
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