AndyMan 7 #1 September 12, 2002 It seems like it's time to upgrade ALREADY. Slashdot has the scoop, Cannon announces the camera, then retracts it. Aparently it wasn't supposed to be announced for another two weeks. Regardless, it's real. No indication yet on price. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/11/2255210&mode=thread&tid=126 _Am__ You put the fun in "funnel" - craichead. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
konradptr 0 #2 September 12, 2002 Who is this for? Maybe to replace film on SR-71 spyplanes? Seems like a lot of friggin resolution... ------------------------------------------ Getting banned isn't that bad...... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mountainman 0 #3 September 12, 2002 You can mount that right next to your camera that can go up to 12,000 fps (frames per second). That's right, 12,000. Check it out here: http://www.millisecond-cine.com/images.html Just click the images and you view the movies. They are AWESOME!!! http://www.brandonandlaura.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zlew 0 #4 September 13, 2002 take a good 35mm still camera, pro qulaity film, with a top of the line negative scanner....guess what, you will get 2-3 times the resolution of the 11 meg camers. Think it's a move in the right direction, but not as "wonderful" as it looks. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AndyMan 7 #5 September 13, 2002 If you read the postings in the slashdot article I posted, most of the camera geeks agreed the resoution of most consumer grade 35mm cameras is about 13 Megapixels. That makes this one pretty close... What this will do for sure, is make the current batch of 6 megapixel cameras a whole lot more affordable. I just wish the digital SLR's were affordable, but this is also only a matter of time. _Am__ You put the fun in "funnel" - craichead. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
newshooter12 0 #6 September 13, 2002 A.M., congrats on the nice find. Does "[font "Arial"]Foveon X3 Technology" have anything to do with the fast jumps in quality in the last 6-8 months? Do you, or anyone, know when or if the X3 chips might make it into consumer cameras?[/font] [font "Arial"]Anyway it goes the quality puts my Coolpix 995 to shame as well as standard def video...[/font] [font "Arial"]Smooth landings... Matt[/font] Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jdhill 0 #7 September 13, 2002 the x3 chip is in the Sigma S9 (3+MP)... I have not heard of a 6MP (or larger) version yet... The challenge with the increase in resolution will be the increase in file size... high cap CF cards are still not cheap... the camera's buffers need to keep up as well... write time is already a problem with many cameras. JoshAll that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. - Edmund Burke Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zlew 0 #8 September 13, 2002 I'm with you %100 man. My point being that 11 meg isn't at all uncommon (in reference to "seems like a lot of friggn' res..... us Spy planes and such). you don't need an sr71, U2, or spy satalite to get 11 meg res.... infact you can get it for 4 bucks when you buy a throw away camera at the drug store. thats all' Z Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
