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No one was voted into Major League Baseball's Hall of Fame this year, mainly due to the taint of performance enhancing drugs. But when it came to adding another model to the pantheon of legendary DSLRs, the Canon 5D Mark III -- introduced last spring -- earned IR's full support in just its first year of eligibility. And,...
Canon's EOS 6D digital SLR lowers the barrier to entry to the company's full-frame digital SLR lineup, with a pricetag well below that of the EOS 5D Mark III, and even a little less than the now rather long-in-the-tooth 5D Mark II. That's made the 6D pretty popular with photographers and videographers on a tight budget, but early adopters have...
A few months ago we published a series of articles showing that certain Canon lenses on the newest Canon cameras -- the EOS 5D Mark III and EOS-1D X -- autofocused more accurately than on earlier Canon bodies for center-point, single-shot autofocus. These combinations actually offered similar autofocus accuracy to that we could obtain with...
After last week's announcement of the affordable full-frame Nikon D600 digital SLR, it's no surprise to see the Canon EOS 6D finally emerge from behind the curtain of rumor and conjecture. The new Canon 6D is another camera designed to appeal to the photographer who wants to step up to full-frame but has found the...
We've just posted our Still Life series of lab shots from the flagship Canon EOS-1D X professional SLR, and have added them to our Comparometer(tm) tool, so you can see for yourself how image quality compares to other cameras we've tested.
Be sure to visit our Canon 1D X test shots page for all the lab images we've shot so far, including links to select .CR2 raw files, and...
New firmware for the flagship Canon EOS-1D X digital SLR today corrects several issues related to focus adjustment, as well as a bug that could prevent the pro-oriented camera powering on correctly in some circumstances, among other improvements.
Canon 1D X firmware v1.0.6 is available for download immediately. According to the company, the full list of changes in the update is...
Late last week, the Japanese photo tech blog Impress DC Watch published a lengthy interview with several of the team at Canon responsible for planning and developing the company's first mirrorless camera, the Canon EOS M.
The interview contained quite a few interesting tidbits, but one stood out in particular, perhaps because to Western sensibilities it could seem rather...
An interesting blog post today from Roger Cicala at LensRentals details a problem uncovered with certain combinations of Sigma lenses and Canon SLR bodies. It appears to be caused by the cameras' Illumination Correction feature, but the manner in which this happens is rather odd.
In JPEG photos shot with the Sigma APO Macro 150mm F2.8 EX DG OS HSM or Sigma APO Macro 180mm F2.8...
Canon USA has today issued product advisories noting new or upcoming firmware for several of its products. Key among these is an updated firmware release for the Canon 7D digital SLR that--as promised last June--makes extensive changes throughout, with numerous new features seen in more recent models.
Key among the changes in EOS 7D firmware version 2.0.0 is an improvement in...
Some days it’s good to be a geeky gear-head. This is one of them because a) I finished testing autofocus on all of the Canon camera bodies we had, b) I actually found out some interesting stuff, and c) I got worked up about camera marketers while doing it, so I have my next post in the works already.
Because I’ve been writing this series on the fly (telling you what we found as...
For some time now, the rumors have swirled, and today they bear fruit. Just two weeks short of the fourth anniversary of Olympus and Panasonic's debut of their joint Micro Four Thirds system standard for compact system cameras, long-time mirrorless holdout Canon becomes the last major manufacturer to acknowledge the burgeoning market for interchangeable-lens cameras that do away...
The folks over at Chipworks have been inside more electronic gadgetry than many of us have had hot suppers, and they've just served up another tasty morsel. At the end of last week, they posted the first details from their teardown of the Canon EOS Rebel T4i digital SLR.
This teardown is particularly interesting, because the Canon T4i debuts a brand-new CMOS image sensor with...
A product advisory issued by Canon today for the EOS Rebel T4i digital SLR had us checking our calendars to make sure it wasn't April Fools' Day. Following hot on the heels of yesterday's curious advisory noting that some Canon T4i bodies suffered from identity crisis, the company has revealed that a separate batch of T4i bodies may show an issue with the handgrip changing color...
Over the last few days, Canon USA has released updated firmware for several of its digital SLRs and camcorders, as well as new versions of the software that accompanies these products.
Of most interest to our readers will be the firmware and software updates for the SLRs. The Canon EOS 5D Mark III update takes the camera to version number 1.1.3, and according to the company...
For those of you who aren’t aware, the new AF system in the Canon EOS 5D Mark III has different available autofocus points with different lenses. Canon has listed all of their lenses in the 5D Mk III manual (pages 78-84, for those of you who don’t do manuals much) telling you which of the 61 AF points are active and whether they are horizontal only, cross, or dual-cross sensors...
2012's less than half gone, and it's already been quite a year for Canon so far. It's launched three new SLRs: a professional 1-series model, an enthusiast full-frame 5-series, and a special edition enthusiast APS-C model aimed at astronomers. It's also debuted an entirely new concept, with the first large-sensor compact zoom camera. Today, Canon reveals its fourth new SLR of the...
Underwater photographer Berkley White has posted a gorgeous video of the massive sinkholes in Mexico, known as cenotes, shot with the new Canon EOS 5D Mark III.
To shoot the video, White had to hack an old Aquatica 5D Mark II underwater housing to fit the new camera. (The new housings weren't available yet.)
Though the modified rig was functional, it only allowed him to...
Canon USA Inc. has acknowledged a problem experienced by some photographers shooting with its EOS 5D Mk III digital SLR, we hear from the folks over at PDN Pulse. The company confirms that it has replicated an issue whereby light leaking from the top-panel LCD info display's backlight is picked up by the camera's metering system, affecting the displayed exposure value. The...
The best worst thing happened today: a nearly new Canon 5D Mk III came back from rental with a loose screw rattling around inside. We had to decide if it went back to Canon or if we should go looking for the screw ourselves. That’s a tough decision. So we thought about it for a while. Until Tyler and Drew went to lunch. Then we decided it had to be handled in-house. Since we had...
Canon USA today made quite a range of announcements revolving around the National Association of Broadcasters tradeshow, which is about to kick off next week in Las Vegas. The list includes a new video-oriented EOS-series professional DSLR and a Cinema EOS-series video camera, both with 4K resolution. There are also four new EF Cinema zoom lenses, a 30-inch 4K industrial display,...
