Canon 5D rumors from inside....

etto72 wrote:

What is said to me is that he actually saw, back in December 2007
evidences of a new Pro canon camera

He said that as far he could see Canon is thinking soon to produce a
pro camera that would include some of the best feature of both 1D
series

15.1 MP (full frame)
14 bit
1 Digic III
Iso 100 to 6400(up to 12800)
AF like 1Dmk III

So it won't focus track in AI Servo???

3 fps

A Slow Turd??

3 inch screen
A sort of smaller 1D body,with integrated grip but not rear lcd panel
1 slot flash card

Still not "REAL" competition for the D3

He also spoke about a 5D replacement coming probably after

12.8 MP
14 bit
1 Digic III
iso 100 to 3200 (up to 6400)
Improved 9 point AF
4 fps
3 inch screen
Improved body

I rather have canon wait a nd make sure the cameras WORK before they release them.

RobertoAvanzi wrote:

etto72 wrote:

He said that as far he could see Canon is thinking soon to produce a
pro camera that would include some of the best feature of both 1D
series

[...]

A sort of smaller 1D body,with integrated grip but not rear lcd panel

Well, I can really imagine a 1D-class body without rear lcd panel.

I want one without sensor! NO, wait...

best
Roberto

I rather think he meant the rear status LCD - the small one at the bottom, not the 3" LCD for reviewing pics.

i am sick of waiting for 5Dmk2

300/350/450D are so common now, tom dick and harry has one.

I want to upgrade, but i have to wait.

there are no competition for 5D, that is the problem, when nikon come out with a full frame small size slr, there are no competition, and canon is taking their time.

also, thanks to D3, no doubt, canon engineer ditch their old spec on 5Dmk2, improve on it and it takes time.

basically, WAIT WAIT WAIT. patience and ignorance is bliss.

I'm sick of waiting too. I've read all the discussions about "just buy a 5D now and replace it when something better comes along........." - but I've been waiting because I'm still shooting film and when I make my camera purchase - it will most likely be my last (much age and little money). I've been thinking along the lines of getting the 5D upgrade with the digilogic III processor, larger (and maybe better) LCD, sensor cleaning (not sure how effective this is anyway), and maybe some viewfinder and weather sealing improvements. Oh yeah, and maybe they would dedicate a button to mirror lockup? My basic concept was/is to get the 2nd version of a good camera after they have worked out all the bugs. Now I'm really questioning my logic - since there doesn't seem to be many "bugs" to work out with the 5D anyway.....and everyone seems to agree that the camera sports one of the nicest image sensors on the market. My interest leans toward landscape/macro type work, so speed is of little concern to me. I currently shoot a EOS-5.

So if there's no announcement of a 5D replacement this Spring, I just might admit my error (in waiting) and buy a 5D.

The 3D (or whatever) specs like that for a price the same as the 1D3 will be an appalling marketing move... the Nikon D3 for $500 more will walk all over it.

Any 3D-style body had better be priced closer to $3K cuz the Nikon D3 seems to now own the "cheapest pro FF body" niche, IMO.

I've wanted to get a 5D for months now bu it's the AF that is putting me off. Some people say it's great, other say it's really no better than the 20D's AF (which sucks IMO). Canon's 5D white paper is a bit vague and says only that the AF is "as good or better than" the 20D (paraphrasing). What does that mean??!

I can't afford a 1D series body, so where's the tweener from Canon? Let's at least have 15-point or 21-point AF in a compact body. Don't need 45-point but it would be nice to rise above 9-point.

I am seriously considering a 1Ds2 but really don't want to have to lug around a dual-grip body like that if at all possible.

my 5D & 20D focus OK, for what they are

I own one of the first 5D's, I make money with it. I never ever had any focusing problems that aren't my fault. I also own a eos 3. The 5D keeps on focusing correctly in lower light while the eos 3 fails and starts hunting.

Comparing a 5D focus system with that of a 20D is a big mistake. My previeus cam was a 20D and it has unreliable focus system indeed.

So you are sugesting that 70% of wedding pros are using a cam that dous not focus?

I own many low light primes. My hit rate is so high that i will never sell my body untill i am totaly convinced that a eventual replacement is at least as good.
Afcours the 5D is not a sports cam and it never had the pretention to be one

pipspeak wrote:

I've wanted to get a 5D for months now bu it's the AF that is putting
me off. Some people say it's great, other say it's really no better
than the 20D's AF (which sucks IMO). Canon's 5D white paper is a bit
vague and says only that the AF is "as good or better than" the 20D
(paraphrasing). What does that mean??!

I can't afford a 1D series body, so where's the tweener from Canon?
Let's at least have 15-point or 21-point AF in a compact body. Don't
need 45-point but it would be nice to rise above 9-point.

it does have 15 point AF already. perhaps read that white paper a little better.

just like the 1 series has 19 point selectable and 26 assist points, the 5D has 9 selectable and 6 assists, the 20D has no assist points.

the 20D and the 5D have nothing in common - outside of the word "canon" and the letter "D".

different AF, sensor, mirror, viewfinder, pentaprism, grip styling, lcd, firmware. anyone that's used both and thinks that the 20D and 5D have alot in common, should perhaps stick with the 20D.

Robert Deutsch wrote:

...and he's always been noncommittal about what's coming out, saying
the Canon people in the US find out about new models just very
shortly before the announcements are made to the public. And if he
did release information before he was supposed to, he wouldn't have
his job for very long...

The starting point for understanding what people might know is what their job is. Chuck Westfall's job has morphed a bit over the years and grown in responsibility. But he used to have some level of responisibility as a source of information. He also seems to be a significant resource to Canon in understanding the North American market. I suspect he is prone to have a fair amount of advance information on Canon's plans. But he is clearly at a level where he understands what he can say and what he can't.

The representatives that a camera store might deal with are likely to be significantly lower level employees than Chuck Westfall. Their job is presumably selling and they are not likely to be told more than they need to know for their job. They are unlikely to know anything about what Canon is planning for six months from now. But they might know that Canon does not plan to replace the 5D immediately and that they should encourage their client stores to continue stocking up on them.

The technicians at a Canon repair facility are low level employees. It is always possible that some of them are over achievers and have managed to connect to some semi reliable in company rumor source. But, for the most part, their speculations are no better than any of the others that might be posted on dpreview.
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David Jacobson
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RDKirk wrote:

...you can see that Canon Inc doesn't tell Canon USA much in advance
about anything at all.

This is pretty typical in technology companies in general. I know people who work inside one big producer of consumer technologies. (You all know the name of the company and quite possibly own one or more of the products.) They all follow the rumors the same way the rest of us do.

Dan

EyE wrote:

So you are sugesting that 70% of wedding pros are using a cam that
dous not focus?

I am a wedding pro and full time at photography, and I'm curious: What is the source of that statistic?

Anyways, I have shot many weddings with a combo of the 5D and either a 1d2 or 1d3 as the lead camera. As we wedding pro, I can verify that, to use your spelling, the 5d "dous not focus" efficiently in many situations that require a 1d series camera... The key word here is "efficiently." You can always find SOME way to make a 5D focus, but in the same amount of time you can probably focus multiple times for multiple compositions with a 1d series camera... I have always found the idea silly that wedding and event pros, which to the camera is identical subject matter to general news photo-j, somehow don't need full fledge AF capacity. So I laugh at the notion of the 5D as the "perfect wedding camera." Sure it is, if you have a 1d to hold its hand!