After playing with the Canon 5D Mark III for the last few weeks, we’ve safely concluded that this is easily one of the best cameras to come out in years. Still, we’re always down to learn more. Our friends at Lensrentals.com are giving us our first look at the camera’s guts, revealing it’s intelligent compact construction, and the powerful Digic 5+ image processor.
Learning to shoot video with a DSLR after years of using traditional video cameras can be an awkward transition. One feature yet absent from DLSRs is a controlled zoom mechanism. Zooming manually not only produces an entirely different feel to a shot, it also requires the use of an additional hand, besides the one holding the camera.
The National Association of Broadcasters’ Convention is just around the corner, which means an influx of pro-grade video and camera gear. Like Kessler’s new drool-worthy all-digital Fusion motion control rig for DSLRs.
With the DSLR market pinching downwards into the budget and micro 4/3rds categories, how do you bring in even more customers? By filling in the niches, as Canon’s doing with its latest camera, the astrophotography-specific EOS 60Da. Update: Although you’ll have to shop around, as this is a camera with no RRP.
Nintendo’s DS is useful for many things, most of them game-centric. One thing I bet the designers never envisaged is that somebody would come up with a way to turn it into a DSLR remote control.
With this imaginative fix, you can watch your camera fall to the earth with slightly less trepidation, secure in the knowledge that a trip to the supermarket and some everyday tools could make everything OK.
Even as pro-grade, mirrorless, interchangeable lens cameras threaten to overtake the user-base that once demanded budget DSLRs, not everyone is convinced. Sony has revamped one of its budget DSLRs for people who actually like having a bigger, more powerful camera in their hands.
Olympus’ OM-D is an impressive looking Micro Four Thirds camera, and Olympus isn’t shy about viewing it as a DSLR replacement. Based on the Australian pricing, they’re going to want to be confident about how well it performs.