18 megapixels on a 1.6x crop camera - Has Canon gone too far?

"Me" wrote in message
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RichA wrote:
I don't think so. For resolution freaks, this will be welcome,
provided it doesn't cost $2500. This is apparently a cheaper 5D II.
Now, the only question is, will Nikon facing two high res camera at
low prices from Canon bring out their own?
One good thing, the lenses don't need to be hyper-expensive like for
the FF cameras in order to properly support this chip.
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0909/09...os7d.asp#specs


It's /not/ a cheaper 5DII. You clearly haven't used a 5DII - or you'd
know that.
True, it's a more expensive APS-C replacement for the 50D... Seems to be a
Pentax K7D clone

It's /not/ a cheaper 5DII. You clearly haven't used a 5DII - or you'd
know that.


What is is an 8Hz burst camera. I have my doubts whether the other features
are really all that likely to really truly work. For example,
all the focus points in the world won't help unless the one you actually
use is small enough that you critical subject area is larger than it is.

Doug McDonald

Doug McDonald writes:
What is is an 8Hz burst camera

So who is it that uses these super fast picture-taking speeds? Is it
just sports photogs?

-Miles

--
Alliance, n. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have
their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot
separately plunder a third.

Miles Bader wrote:
Doug McDonald writes:
What is is an 8Hz burst camera

So who is it that uses these super fast picture-taking speeds? Is it
just sports photogs?

No. There a plenty of other uses, in wildlife/nature, shooting fashion
on the catwalk etc, aviation/cars, or "merely" taking photos of your
kids playing in the back yard.
As a general rule, the cameras are also faster, more responsive, and
from my experience more accurate (AF) when shooting static subjects.
Sometimes that doesn't matter at all, sometimes it matters a lot.

Me wrote:
Miles Bader wrote:
Doug McDonald writes:
What is is an 8Hz burst camera

So who is it that uses these super fast picture-taking speeds? Is it
just sports photogs?

No. There a plenty of other uses, in wildlife/nature, shooting fashion
on the catwalk etc, aviation/cars, or "merely" taking photos of your
kids playing in the back yard.
As a general rule, the cameras are also faster, more responsive, and
from my experience more accurate (AF) when shooting static subjects.
Sometimes that doesn't matter at all, sometimes it matters a lot.

On my vacation I used my lowly 30D to take pictures, in burst mode,
of people diving into a pool near Angel Falls. The pictures
drew oohs and aahs from the subjects. They were completely unaware that
still cameras could do that. And an 8 Hz camera would have
gotten in some cases a better "best shot".

I've also had some success using burst mode with swimming beavers.

Doug McDonald

"mcdonaldREMOVE TO ACTUALLY REACH wrote in message
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Me wrote:
Miles Bader wrote:
Doug McDonald writes:
What is is an 8Hz burst camera

So who is it that uses these super fast picture-taking speeds? Is it
just sports photogs?

No. There a plenty of other uses, in wildlife/nature, shooting fashion on
the catwalk etc, aviation/cars, or "merely" taking photos of your kids
playing in the back yard.
As a general rule, the cameras are also faster, more responsive, and from
my experience more accurate (AF) when shooting static subjects. Sometimes
that doesn't matter at all, sometimes it matters a lot.

On my vacation I used my lowly 30D to take pictures, in burst mode,
of people diving into a pool near Angel Falls. The pictures
drew oohs and aahs from the subjects. They were completely unaware that
still cameras could do that. And an 8 Hz camera would have
gotten in some cases a better "best shot".

I've also had some success using burst mode with swimming beavers.

Doug McDonald

I use it on my 40D all the time for wildlife shots. Usually I take 3-4 shot
bursts, but at times I take shots until the buffer is full. Wildlife won't
pose on command and if you wait for what you think is the 'perfect' shot the
pose will be different by the time you press the shutter button.

I recently took some close-ups (less than 30 feet away) of black bears
stripping berries off of bushes. Using the burst mode I got a few shots
where berries are visible on the bears tongue before disappearing in his
mouth. I would have never got those shots using the single shot mode!

Ron

Doug McDonald wrote:

On my vacation I used my lowly 30D to take pictures, in burst mode,
of people diving into a pool near Angel Falls. The pictures drew oohs
and aahs from the subjects. They were completely unaware that still
cameras could do that. And an 8 Hz camera would have gotten in
some cases a better "best shot".

I've also had some success using burst mode with swimming beavers.

I'm surprised you didn't get arrested for that.

"Wilba" wrote:
Doug McDonald wrote:

On my vacation I used my lowly 30D to take pictures, in burst mode,
of people diving into a pool near Angel Falls. The pictures drew oohs
and aahs from the subjects. They were completely unaware that still
cameras could do that. And an 8 Hz camera would have gotten in
some cases a better "best shot".

I've also had some success using burst mode with swimming beavers.

I'm surprised you didn't get arrested for that.

Cardiac arrest...

--
Floyd L. Davidson http://www.apaflo.com/floyd_davidson
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)

"Wilba" wrote in message
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Doug McDonald wrote:

On my vacation I used my lowly 30D to take pictures, in burst mode,
of people diving into a pool near Angel Falls. The pictures drew oohs
and aahs from the subjects. They were completely unaware that still
cameras could do that. And an 8 Hz camera would have gotten in
some cases a better "best shot".

I've also had some success using burst mode with swimming beavers.

I'm surprised you didn't get arrested for that.

I don't thiink he means that kind of beaver.

Doug McDonald wrote:

I've also had some success using burst mode with swimming beavers.

somebody replied:

I'm surprised you didn't get arrested for that.

Neil Harrington retorted:

I don't thiink he means that kind of beaver.



You only need fear these beavers, or being near them, if
you are a tree. In that case, be afraid, be very very afraid.
They are in full-scale building mode.

Terminally cute, but unfortunately in dire need of ISO 1600 and
lots of Noise Ninja.

Doug