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Canon announces EOS-1D X: full-frame 18MP, 14 fps, 204,800 top ISO, $6,800

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Re: Canon announces EOS-1D X: full-frame 18MP, 14 fps, 204,800 top ISO, $6,800

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Post by connectionreset »

zitterbewegung wrote: post #29
reemrevnivek wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or why not ask their EU customers to pay the extra 4.9% it would cost to sell it as a camcorder? That would not only get them off the hook but also encourage their customers to abolish this ridiculous law.

On the other hand when you are filming something do you really have a scene in a film that is longer than 30 minutes? Realistically your scenes are much shorter so the utility of having a camera that could shoot longer is probably low.

Like a homemade porn? ;) Or documentary of a lecture

Re: Canon announces EOS-1D X: full-frame 18MP, 14 fps, 204,800 top ISO, $6,800

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Post by jarek »

0x12 wrote: post #12
jgrahamc wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a duty that goes back a long way (back to the start of the VCR revolution) because the EU wanted to protect its own manufacturers from cheap technology coming from abroad. So they (we) enacted a bunch of laws that place quite high duty (up to 15% IIRC) on some technologies.

Let's hope that Canon will allow a hack to escape from their labs to rectify this bug after the camera reaches the end user. A tax on an integer seems to be a bit silly.

Import duties on silly things are a problem the world over. I've recently read about the chicken tax in the USA, it's mildly mind-boggling.

Re: Canon announces EOS-1D X: full-frame 18MP, 14 fps, 204,800 top ISO, $6,800

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Post by iaskwhy »

zitterbewegung wrote: post #29
reemrevnivek wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or why not ask their EU customers to pay the extra 4.9% it would cost to sell it as a camcorder? That would not only get them off the hook but also encourage their customers to abolish this ridiculous law.

On the other hand when you are filming something do you really have a scene in a film that is longer than 30 minutes? Realistically your scenes are much shorter so the utility of having a camera that could shoot longer is probably low.

Say a concert? (I don't know anything about cameras, I was just thinking about that same thing and realised there are probably some uses for scenes longer than 30 minutes.)

Re: Canon announces EOS-1D X: full-frame 18MP, 14 fps, 204,800 top ISO, $6,800

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Post by jarek »

jsavimbi wrote: post #18
timmyd wrote: post #2

But what about my iPhone 4S camera ? Please someone offer me comparison [jokes] :)

Apple announces iPhone 4S: fit-in-your-pocket 8MP, 30 fps, 73% more light, starting at $199 on a monthly contract. Given that 1% create, 10% curate and 90% consume, unless you're in that high art 1% of photographers, the iPhone 4S is your man. Or woman.

Note that the 14 fps in the title for the 1D X refers to the amount of still pictures (18 MP, JPEG) it can take per second. iPhone 4S's time between photos was well publicized (and impressive for a mobile phone camera) at around 0.5 s, or 2 fps.

Re: Canon announces EOS-1D X: full-frame 18MP, 14 fps, 204,800 top ISO, $6,800

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Post by knweiss »

IMHO it's interesting that they continue to use CF cards in their pro bodies. Some expected the switch to smaller SD/SDHC/SDXC cards.

But I wonder why they decided to announce the 1D X so early? I suppose this will hurt their pro body sales for five months. (The new body will not ship before March 2012.)

Re: Canon announces EOS-1D X: full-frame 18MP, 14 fps, 204,800 top ISO, $6,800

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Post by prof_hobart »

StrawberryFrog wrote: post #28
ak217 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think they meant it that way: they said "uses oversized pixels to battle noise". The original press release stressed the fact that the pixels increased in size even as their number increased (because of more efficient layout). This is just flowery prose.

"oversized" is different to "larger"

It means "larger than the usual size".

Re: Canon announces EOS-1D X: full-frame 18MP, 14 fps, 204,800 top ISO, $6,800

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Post by thingie »

adestefan wrote: post #27
jsavimbi wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple announces iPhone 4S: fit-in-your-pocket 8MP, 30 fps, 73% more light, starting at $199 on a monthly contract. Given that 1% create, 10% curate and 90% consume, unless you're in that high art 1% of photographers, the iPhone 4S is your man. Or woman.

A camera you carry all the time is worth more than one sitting at home.

Well, a camera that can't take the picture you want is as useless as the one sitting at home. And iPhone may be, in some cases, a camera that simply can't do what you want. It's a cellphone. Of course, you won't carry a DSLR camera with you all the time, and even that isn't enough, think about lenses, flash, tripod… but iPhone won't magically replace all that, when you actually need it.

Re: Canon announces EOS-1D X: full-frame 18MP, 14 fps, 204,800 top ISO, $6,800

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Post by jarek »

apgwoz wrote: post #5

With that ISO range, they've effectively eliminated the need for flash on 80%+ of photographs. Obviously, you'd still want flash for fill and studio situations, but sports photographers, and everyone else, even (maybe) concert photographers, can probably get away without! Amazing.

At 1D X's price range, all flash use is strictly on purpose - no one would have used flash on a 1D because it's too dark, it's all for the effects it enables with bouncing and gels and all sorts of expensive gadgetry.

The technology filtering down to consumer level in a couple of years is pretty exciting, though as elithrar noted, the exposure is going to be difficult as it's hard to tell between "dark area you want to see" and "dark area that's the background".

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