what (DSLR) will be next?

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I'd have that but with a built in portrait grip, with 10-12 MP, 1.3 crop is fine.

...I want an official eos carbon fibre 20 mp FF weather sealed body with eye control focus and a GPS in the grip

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This is a real point!!! Everyone is beting on a new EOS body and Canon will definitely release one. But even with the current bodies the biggest problems are: wide angle lenses and dust on the sensor. EOS series 1 DSLRs have sensors which mercilessly show difficencies of Canon lenses under 50mm. I own a 1DMKII and my lenses, which seemed perfect on my EOS 1V, are pretty lousy on the digital body. Even with the 1.3 crop factor I can see lots of CA - 16-35mm f/2.8L USM, which is quite an expensive lens, is only so-so on near objects. Anything in the background is rendered as a meaningless mess. The same goes for 24-70mm f/2.8L USM at wide angles. My 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM - with Canon's Extender 2x II I get excellent results on film but very mixed ones on digital.

My 1DMkII came with lots of dust on the sensor from the factory. As it was under warranty I took it to Authorised Canon Service for clean-up. They cleaned the sensor - not perfectly but the camera was usable - but in the process blew some dust insdie the viewfinder system so that now the camera needs diassembling to get rid of the dust insdie the prism. Canon must come out with some built-in sensor-cleaning technology. You pay a few thousand bucks for a Camera that has no self-cleaning sensor. This is absurd. I have been a Canon user for almost two decades and think they used to listen to users' complaints but don't anymore.

Since I have huge investments in Canon lenses and accessories I am not going to switch systems. But I'm in the process of buying adapters accomodating lenses from otehr manufacturers - Contax, Leica, Nikon - to use the best glass at any focal length.

So for me superior wide angle lenses for 1.3 crop and FF size sensor cameras and dust-cleaning technology are far more important than a new camrea body. I think the sensor in 1DMkII and 1DsMkII plus Digic II are good enough - but I am not always able to use them to best advantage due to lens quality or sensor dust problems.
Jarek

Fred Scherb said:

What Canon needs to do is produce a wide angle lens to match the
pixel density of the cameras they are selling.
Quite ironic they have people searching the world over for old
out-of-production Zeiss lenses to jerry-rig to the camera to give
good wide angle results.

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You can go to the patent office's website and read about Canon's sensor, which can capture more than one color in a single photosite.
KP

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Interesting, but not a guarantee we'll see it in a DSLR.

Ken Phillips said:

You can go to the patent office's website and read about Canon's
sensor, which can capture more than one color in a single photosite.
KP

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"EOS series 1 DSLRs have sensors which mercilessly show difficencies of Canon lenses under 50mm."

I'm curretly using ancient Canon AE1 body and lenses, so when I convert to dSLR technology I do not have an investment in lenses that tie me down to a particular brand at this point. Your remark about the difficencies of Canon wide-angle lenses makes me take note and reconsider going forward with the Canon brand. I'm curious, could you provide an example of, or a reference to, the CA (convergent anomalies?) you write of?

-jp

Thanks in advance for your consideration.

jarek leo said:

Fred Scherb said:

What Canon needs to do is produce a wide angle lens to match the
pixel density of the cameras they are selling.
Quite ironic they have people searching the world over for old
out-of-production Zeiss lenses to jerry-rig to the camera to give
good wide angle results.

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I don't have a website but if you provide your e-mail address I can send you some samples. CA stands for Chromatic Aberration. Also full frame shows vignetting of some lenses. Take note that the latter is not a real issue with 1.6 crop Canon bodies - like 20D or 350D. I am not discouraging you from buying into Canon DSLR system because it has many strengths. The problems I mention are simply more pronounced on 1DMkII and particularly 1DsMkII.
Jarek

jp41 said:

I'm curretly using ancient Canon AE1 body and lenses, so when I
convert to dSLR technology I do not have an investment in lenses
that tie me down to a particular brand at this point. Your remark
about the difficencies of Canon wide-angle lenses makes me take
note and reconsider going forward with the Canon brand. I'm
curious, could you provide an example of, or a reference to, the CA
(convergent anomalies?) you write of?

-jp

Thanks in advance for your consideration.

jarek leo said:

Fred Scherb said:

What Canon needs to do is produce a wide angle lens to match the
pixel density of the cameras they are selling.
Quite ironic they have people searching the world over for old
out-of-production Zeiss lenses to jerry-rig to the camera to give
good wide angle results.

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Jarek,

Some samples would be appreciated. My e-mail address is [email protected].

-jp

jarek leo said:

jp41 said:

I'm curretly using ancient Canon AE1 body and lenses, so when I
convert to dSLR technology I do not have an investment in lenses
that tie me down to a particular brand at this point. Your remark
about the difficencies of Canon wide-angle lenses makes me take
note and reconsider going forward with the Canon brand. I'm
curious, could you provide an example of, or a reference to, the CA
(convergent anomalies?) you write of?

-jp

Thanks in advance for your consideration.

jarek leo said:

Fred Scherb said:

What Canon needs to do is produce a wide angle lens to match the
pixel density of the cameras they are selling.
Quite ironic they have people searching the world over for old
out-of-production Zeiss lenses to jerry-rig to the camera to give
good wide angle results.

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Well if anyone from Canon is reading this I have 2 things I would like to see ... Firstly after pondering the Kodak offering and sometimes unlike the 1600asa folk wanting to use longer shutter speeds in daylight, I would like to see if the quality improvement of 12asa would be as great as on the Kodak chip. 125 @ f8 in daylight 100asa means that even with a tele 1/8 of a second is as long as you can go ........Secondly why for the pixel crazy dont Canon give up the noise via crosstalk of creating more megapix on a 35mm chip and just glue together about 9, 6mp chips and make me a digi back to be happy with for my RB67 . See they are done with the 6mp chip even telephones are gona be 7mp via Samsung ....so Canon dont waste all your old stock, glue em and post me the result !!!

I for one think that Sony is working on a 10 meg sensor to be stuffed into the Nikon 50 and 70 or whatever they will call them. I believe that sony is working on a ff sensor.

For Canon to keep its position it needs to have a 10 and 15 meg sensor that they stuff into the 350xt next year and into the d20 this year. The replacement for the 350 needs to be prices $200 less.

Most importantly, they need to up the dynamic range of their sensors and some other nifty technology changes that changes the game against the inpending sony sensors.

This is all the more important if Sony can legally sell their cmos sensors to others.

Right now Sony, if it can legally do so, can cause all types of changes in the dsrl market.

Slow down...don't think so in the dsrl space, maybe in the p&s space.

Stay tuned as the ride could become very exciting.

BP

PS Who do you think the real winner will be...Adobe of course.