How in the world would anyone know that yet?Does anyone have any information about the dynamic range of the new
10D, especially in JPEG? When I shoot a scene with a lot of
different kind of lighting in JPEG, the 10D tends to blow out
hightlight, which is what I reallly hate to see.
Might want to ask on the 1D/1Ds forum.
Well, I didn't really take it too seriously. I'll simply wait untill the camera is announced by Canon and till then I will simply (and happily) shoot analog. Also: iTunes and GPS???
--With all due respect to your friend, not even the Canon reps know the specs of the new camera. It will be shown to them at their national sales meeting, the second week of August.
While i like the idea of having 45 autofocus points to choose from
i would never have all active for shooting flight shots of birds,
unless of course you just want a shot like this
, but i still wouldn't use all focus points in this situation
because i don't need them. Now i may choose three: center and one
to the right and left.
I was responding to the idea that you can't shoot flight shots with
only 7 autofocus points which is rediculous. If you can't keep the
focus point over the subject then you need to try a new technique,
that's all i'm saying. Some people expect the camera to lock
focus on the bird with all 45 focus points active, that will happen
if the sky is the background, but not if the background is a bunch
of trees. The camera can't do it all for you.
--Tim C.
--If you need 45 then i suggest you work on your technique. More AF
points would be helpfull for a bird against a blue sky, but that
gets old real fast. 45 focus points for me would mean 44 more
chances for the camera to focus on the background so i would still
choose only one.
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Why do you think it is so lacking, useless for flight shots? My understanding is that you want the camera to pick the 1 out of 45 focus points that is over the bird, if it could do that every time then my grandmother could take flight shots assuming she could keep the bird in the frame.
You make comments about the 45 point AF system, and I can tell your experience is influenced by Rebel experience. I can tell you that the 1D series are NIGHT AND DAY better than the Rebel for NOT locking onto the contrasty background behind a bird. The Rebel will lock on to background to the point of almost being useless in 7 point mode. It will not leave the background unless you take your finger off, then re-aquire. The 1D series in 45 point mode, is way different. It will lock on the bird and stay on the bird even if the trees or whatever contrasty item is in the background.
With my D60 I could get 8 and 16 shot bursts dead on in focus with the D60 and a single AF point. I never used the 3 AF points. With the Rebel I had no choice, but I would have loved to just use the center point. I hated multi-point AF as much as the next guy for focusing on the wrong thigns. Given all that, there are many times (even with contrasty backgrounds) that I could not have gotten all the shots I get with the 45 point system and I love it. If I want to switch to single point AF system I can do that in
The 7-point system is OK on the film cameras, because it occupies center part of the frame. On the digital cameras with 1.6 sensor, it's simply 1.6 times as large and maybe 1.6 times less precise. This is due to the fact that the AF sensors are exactly the same.
Exactly, half of my out-of-focus shots are becaus of invalid point selection. This is annoying.
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