LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., September 14, 2010 – Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging, today announced the addition of the new PowerShot G12 and PowerShot SX30 IS Digital cameras with innovative features to help photo enthusiasts further develop their photographic capabilities. Once again setting the trend in the consumer digital camera market and solidifying [...]
New EOS 60D Offers a Vari-Angle LCD Screen, EOS Full HD Video Recording, In-Camera RAW Processing and Creative Filters and 18-Megapixel Resolution Among Class-Leading Specs LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., August 26, 2010 – High-quality digital capture and skillful post-processing go hand-in-hand for superior end results, and more control over in-camera image processing means less time editing [...]
Canon Introduces the World’s Widest Fisheye Zoom Lens, a New Telephoto Zoom Lens and Two New Super Telephoto Lenses with Optional New Extenders LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., August 26, 2010 – Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging, rounds out its Summer product introductions with four new L-series lenses and two new accessory extenders for [...]
The popular House television series on the Fox network has a special finale tonight, May 17, 2010. It was shot entirely using Canon’s EOS 5D MkII and EF lenses. Greg Yaitanes, the director, discusses briefly some of the aspects of shooting with a VSLR in an interview with EDN. All the video data was stored [...]
LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., May 13, 2010 — Canon Inc. announced today the achievement of a new camera-manufacturing milestone as combined production of the company’s EOS-series film and digital single-lens reflex (SLR) cameras passed the 40-million mark. Production of the EOS SLR camera first began in 1987 at Canon Inc.’s Fukushima Plant (now Fukushima Canon Inc.), [...]
An ingenious person has turned his beloved 35mm Canon AE-1 SLR into a digital camera! The film back now has a color LCD display. The AE-1 Digital packs 9 megapixels of resolution, image stabilization, and 4GB of internal memory. There’s even a zoom feature, USB slot, even a built-in microphone. Kudos to this one. It’s [...]
Creating video with your new VSLR is not the same as taking still photos. Rather than dealing with slices out of a string of motion you’re recording the strings in entirety. What’s interesting is that most people you talk to that do both stills and video will tell you that each improves the other. Rik [...]
Canon has released v1.2.1 firmware update for the EOS 7D. The new firmware v1.2.1 affects the following: Extends the timing at which the high temperature warning indicator is displayed and the timing of automatic shut down of the camera due to a rise in internal temperature during Live View or EOS Movie functions. Optimizes program [...]
Greg Yaitanes, director of the popular House television series, has shot the season finale with a Canon EOS 5D Mark II VSLR in HD! Yaitanes says that when compared to standard video cameras the 5D MK II has better saturation. When it’s all said and done he sees this as the future. The ramifications for [...]
Canon has released a new firmware update for the Eos 5D Mark II which has five enhancements and a fix to the manual sensor cleaning function. Firmware v2.0.3 is a recommended update. More information is available at the Canon website…
