By then i'll have switched back to Nikon and have a D800 in hand and all will be right with the world!Then canon will release the 5DIII in Fall 2012, and that question will be answered.
With funds in hand for a 5DIII right now, I won't be waiting for it until this time next year . I'll have enough funds for a 1D before too much longer, and I would probably spring for a new 1D model if they introduce one before spring. It kinda depends on the rumored upcomming "historic announcement".Then canon will release the 5DIII in Fall 2012, and that question will be answered.
If this historic announcement is the one on Nov 3rd, I think conventional wisdom is that that announcement will concern the new line of EOS/PL mount cinema S35 size sensor video cameras that will compete with the Sony F100/Panny AF100 and possible Scarlet. I'm sure it will be exciting and historic, but not for stills guys.With funds in hand for a 5DIII right now, I won't be waiting for it until this time next year . I'll have enough funds for a 1D before too much longer, and I would probably spring for a new 1D model if they introduce one before spring. It kinda depends on the rumored upcomming "historic announcement".Then canon will release the 5DIII in Fall 2012, and that question will be answered.
If they piddle around and don't introduce any new FF before spring, I'm not sure what I will do. The technology is morphing so quickly right now that I'm not even going to think about more glass, because it's hard to tell what's in the pipeline, and I don't want to be any more heavily invested in glass if the "historic announcement" is something whacky like a full frame mirrorless that doesn't work with with existing lenses.
One thing is for sure IMO - they better not piddle around too much longer, and they better come up with something really good pretty quickly (ie: "historic announcement"), or the competition is going to leave Canon milking on hind teet with Kodak.
if they really knew for sure and had inside info they'd probably be breaking a NDA and already be out of business
I don't know anything about the cinema scene, so I don't know if that would qualify as "historic". There's also a October 26th date that I've seen mentioned.
I agree, and I hope you're correct. At this point, I'm not doing anything until I see what happens after the two aforementioned dates, and at that point fall colors will be all but gone, and it won't kill me to wait until spring. Maybe get some new glass and/or a new monitor or something if nothing shakes out over the winter.
