New Canon Camera

Have you bought it yet?

i'm kind of curious about that 6400iso limit. while there might be more colors, how well does it really do in low light? the iso isn't for color. its for speed, and a lot of my shots depends on a clean high iso. i'm glad they done away with that filter, that alone should brighten things up a bit. i do wonder why i would want to use a cropped mode other than to get more zoom from the lens. i wonder if that means i can use other kinds of lenses on it. and how much it will be. i haven't really used up this camera, and the size of these images, i wonder about that as well.

---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/1344856
here's a thread with skeptics.


---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

Cropped mode they said is for smaller file size. MP are really a mute point after 20. How big are the pixels on the sensor is what I want to know? Better get a few more hard drives at 50mp pics I wonder what the RAW file size is.

there's something fishy about that rumor though. today's full frame shoots at a 100,000 iso, it goes that fast so you can get a faster shutter speed, it has nothing to do with color. and in some full frames, they sacrifice pixels just to get a faster iso. in this case they took it away (or maybe it goes to a 100k or 200k or whatever, and thats an expansion).

a cropped mode makes little sense unless the cmos gets closer to the lens, otherwise i might as well change the size. the cripple is that i can only use full frame on a full frame camera, the lens sticks too far in otherwise. and they didn't seem to change the shape of the camera at all. a mk2 and a mk3 look different.

from my understanding, they changed how the cmos works, so the pixel size may not totally come into play here, still i'd like to see some samples. and to get 50mp they had to sacrifice the iso, that's not good either. right now a file size is like 40megs - for 22mp. so 50 -- 100megs plus?


i'm not sure if it will be worth it or not.

---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

I'd be happy with the lens on the front of the 5Ds. Much better than the short lens I have now.

I'll buy into the rumor when DPReview sticks their neck out and discusses it.

Cropped mode makes perfect sense for bird/wildlife and some sports photographers where the subject is unlikely to fill the frame so there is dead space around the edges which just uses up memory. I wonder, though, how the area actually being shot would be shown in the viewfinder, I doubt if action shooters would want to use live view.
I think you could always mount EF-S lenses on Canon's full-frame cameras, couldn't you? You just had dark edges to your pictures.

I never had the heart to sell my Digital Rebel, and I periodically pull it out of its box and take it on a run. I'm still amazed at how good the pictures look in all their 6.3 mp glory, stored as they are on compact flash drives, and well, 50 mp you say? Hmmm...

Be great when the rest of the advanced technology catches up in affordability.

The thing is, and I mean the reason, the need (?) for more mps is that it's something they can do. They can stuff more pixels in televisions but can they make them look as good as plasmas? No - but just gaze in awe at the undetectable clarity!

Photostitching's been around for yonks now, and it's practiced by anyone for whom the highest resolution is a must. When it's offered as a staple consumer catch it'll soon be standard definition until someone works out how to phase interpolate over six unobtanium layers arranged in a concentric array through a laser field so everything's captured in 4.5 dimensions.

And good on 'em. Personally I can't wait...

One thing I find interesting is the last rumor I herd was a 1d variant with 46 mp now a 5d with 50, I wonder what the cost will be, I still think it would be cheaper to go Nikon if canon prices like they like to do.
Terry
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Looks like the pixel wars have begun again. Guess this means Canon R&D could not figure out how to achieve the greater dynamic range of Nikon's latest sensors, so the Canon marketing department decided the only avenue left was re-initiating pixel wars.

I think 50MP sensor is interesting but I think doing away with all the video options and making a body targeted for photography only...would make this appealing to me. Let's hope more affordable too...

What Chuck said.

Last rumor I heard it was 75mp.

Image the poor person you aim this at in a portrait session. My mirrorless, lightweight, compact, silent, 16mp Fujifilm x100t arrives today!

It's better to wait until it's actually officially released to love it or hate it........

Regarding the lower max ISO.

The most accurate color reproduction is obtained using the equivalents of the #25 red, #47 blue and #61 green Kodak filters.

Because they eat up 2 stops of light most camera companies have used less dense versions. My guess is that the new camera is using colors closer to the ideal in the Bayer filter. The better question is, how much amplification are they using at ISO 100 to compensate?

David Millenheft

Reading at http://www.canonwatch.com/cw5-image-specs-canon-5ds-5ds-r-leaked-50mp-sensor/ I find their comments below

The pixel density of a full-frame 50MP sensor is more or less the same as on a 20MP APS-C sensor. The EOS 5Ds and EOS 5Ds R are not for the sport and wildlife photogs out there. Both cameras are for studio and landscape photography.

Since they rate this plausibility to be only a 50/50 chance, I'm not convinced. There would be little purpose in developing an expensive dslr like this for long distance shots, such as an APS-C sensor helps with. The idea behind a large sensor, perhaps another Sony sensor, is to allow for large format media. But I am merely guessing here. The Guess is lower ISO prevents noise.