There are migratory birds that are nesting in some trees about 500 feet away (that's a bad guess). I tried my 70-200mm, but it's reach is still too short. Longer full-frame Nikkors seem too expensive for now. I certainly would like to get one eventually to shoot wildlife, etc.
The new Sigmas are just reaching the stores. I don't know yet if they are any good.
I'm thinking about the 7D now instead of the 1D MK IV. Assumption is that the 1Ds MK IV will be here later this year. Hmm.
The last thing a camcorder needs is a long reach. No one seems to be able to keep still as it is.
brings 29.97 FPS and 24 FPS (23.976, to be precise) 1080p recording at last. Even the VGA mode has been swapped to a 29.97 actual rate, and PAL mode has a flat 25 FPS and 23.976 FPS as well. Additional tweaks include a manual volume adjustment (as opposed to the automatic gain the cameras usually employ), a brightness or RGB histogram display (this function, like some of these other features, has been available for a while as a hack), shutter and aperture priority modes have been added for movie shooting, and the audio sampling ramp has been bumped from 44.1KHz to 48KHz.
Fixes a phenomenon where communication between the camera and the
attached lens is sometimes interrupted after manual sensor cleaning.
(This phenomenon only affects units with Firmware Version 1.2.4.)
“No, you will not be able to shoot a wedding on a cell phone” – this is a good description for the latest sensor announcement by the ThePhoblographer.com: InVisage Technologies created a sensor using quantum dots instead of silicon for phone cameras. According to the company, this would increase the sensor performance more than four times.
Read more on this topic @ Wired and ImageSensorsWorld. Full press release after the break.
Just a month ago Dalsa announced a 196MP sensor which will be used in “UltraCam line of aerial photogrammetry cameras produced by Vexcel Imaging GmbH, a subsidiary of Microsoft. The new UltraCamXp and UltraCamXp Wide Angle use multiple Dalsa CCD image sensors to provide breathtakingly detailed imagery that feeds applications such as Microsoft Bing Maps” (source). 196MP not enough for you? Then check out this 570MP intergalactic camera.
Also a month ago, Samsung announced a 3MP CMOS sensor for camera phones, capable of recording 720p video (source). At the same time NEC announced an image processor for cameras phones that can handle Full HD (1080p) videos and 13MP photos (source).
How about that one: OmniVision has announced a new RAW-capable CMOS sensor for cellphones (source).
recursion...Handruin said:Circular reference?
No fun. Some pain and suffering.
I can relieve you of that pain any time.
That sounds very Dr Kevorkian