Category: Canon

  • Web sites for lens reviews

    It is often difficult to group lens reviews in order to compare/evaluate a little more than their mere physical characteristics (focal length, aperture/diaphragm, or even number of individual lenses). But how would you evaluate/review optical quality? When I see the really impressive differences between two lenses, I would be prepared to judge from their price,…

  • Sony Alpha 900 vs. Nikon D3

    Comparing two SLR cameras with very very different prices is realy a tough task. So tough that it is often useless. In the Online Photographer, Michael Johnston still tries this daunting task of comparing the Sony Alpha 900 and the Nikon D3. These are two cameras that are mostly linked by the fact that they…

  • Noise comparison

    Digital noise, this eternal ennemy of the photographer, is going to find a real opponent at its level: The 35mm Full Frame sensors of the new FF dSLR that just arrived on the market (or were there for a relatively longer time): Canon EOS 1Ds Mark III Canon EOS 5D Canon EOS 5D MkII Nikon…

  • Video/photo: Blurring the limit

    With the arrival of new Single Lens Reflex cameras able to capture video sequencs (Canon 5D Mark II & Nikon D90), the limit is blurred between video and photo cameras. The presentation of some new impresssive accessories (or should I rather speak of hardware fixture or heavy-duty complements, to be more adequate?) is changing the…

  • Canon EOS 40D Mk II?

    OK. Now, I’m lost. This can’t be! A rumour surfaced this week on DPR about a possible upcoming Canon EOS 40D Mk II. new 12 MP gapless microlens CMOS sensor which employs the 5D markII improved output amplifier, and a more advanced color filter with superior light transmission Digic IV 100-3200 base ISO, expanded L1-…

  • Canon 5D Mk II manual

    Canon made this manual available for download in PDF file format.

  • Disassembled zoom lens

    A broken zoom lens has been the reason for forum user sbv20 to take the lens apart. Down to the smallest part. Source: FredMiranda forum.

  • User manuals for the Canon EOS 50D

    For a few years now, Canon repeatedly forgot to include some of the critical user manuals in the CD-ROM coming with its cameras. If you want to have them you have to get them from the Internet (when and where they are available). For the Canon EOS 50D, I found the manual and documentation available…

  • Canon EOS 60D – tentative spec

    A current candidate feature set for the Canon EOS 60D includes: Improved LiveView AF to support focus tracking Improved normal AF (additional AF points) Orientable LCD screen (not definite, but easy to do) including a flip up mode to allow ‘from the hip’ shooting HD video mode (already confirmed by Canon), with AF and stereo…