Posts Tagged ‘70d’

Nov
15
2014

Happy 6th Birthday planet5D! A historical look at the DSLR Video Revolution

planetMitch note: This is great DSLR Video�?history written by Hugh -�?I'll have a post on Monday with more details about the planet5D history... Cue up the opening seconds of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band: “It was 20 years ago today, Sgt. Pepper taught the…
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Jul
31
2014

GH4, A7s “Just Stomped on my 5D3 and 70D”

Dan Watson over at LearningCameras.com has done a nice video review of the GH4 and A7s. He takes a holistic view of the two and picks a winner (punch line: GH4 in a well-reasoned and reasonable argument), but here’s the even bigger punch line:[adrotate group="6"]…
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Jul
22
2014

A Love Letter – and Plea – to Canon

Dear Canon: I’ve been a fanboy of yours for just about 45 years, ever since I bought my first SLR – the Canon FT/QL -- at the age of 12. Over the ensuing decades, you were my go-to company as I moved up the 35mm…
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Jul
17
2014

Will Canon Still be the Leader After The Next Camera Announcement?

Federer and Nadal; Gates and Jobs; Lauda and Hunt; Edison and Tesla – I’m sure you can name many other world-class champions who were made even better by their worthiest opponents (please feel free to nominate yours in the comments section below!).[adrotate group="6"] But you’d…
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Jul
2
2014

planet5D podcast #17 - Magic Lantern and Charlie Locke

Great conversation about Magic Lantern with Charlie Locke! We'll have another session with Charlie in a couple of weeks. As you can see and hear on the podcast, this was the most heavily attended live show yet! And we had a ton of questions come…
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Jun
27
2014

Sony A7s Crowned New King of Low Light by DxOMark, but…

It’s all over the web now: Sony has pulled a rabbit out of its hat with the low light performance of their new A7s, sibling to the A7 and A7R. The imagery is stunning, the ISO numbers staggering.[adrotate group="6"] DxOMark confirms that the A7s has…
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Feb
18
2014

Never be out of focus again? The Rather Remarkable 70D.

When Canon Pro Marketing Specialist, Genaro Arroyo, loaned me the Canon EOS 70D to try out I rolled my eyes expecting the auto focus to work haltingly...second-guessing itself...back and forth.[adrotate group="6"] But after some real world tests I moved from doubter to convert. Don't get…
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Aug
27
2013

First Hands-on with the hot new Canon EOS 70D - moire? smooth auto-focus in video?

Schiller's camera (http://schillers.com) called and asked if I wanted to try the new Canon EOS 70D - of course I do! Here's our first look at the new Canon EOS 70D. It is a 20.2MP APS-C HDSLR with the new 'Dual Pixel CMOS AF' sensor.…
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Jul
1
2013

Canon’s EOS 70D - revolutionary Dual Pixel CMOS AF and landmark ISO for APS-C cameras

Canon has just added the Canon EOS 70D to the APS-C crop sensor line up. It looks to be very capable mid-range DSLR. They've added the WiFi that was introduced in the Canon EOS 6D, but did not include the GPS that was added to…
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Jun
28
2013

canonrumors reports new Canon EOS 70D is due next week

canonrumors.com is reporting that next week will show us a new Canon EOS 70D! Below are the specs. See more of my thoughts in the comments (on the planet5D forums) [adrotate group="6"] [adrotate group="9"] Canon EOS 70D specs New Sensor! Below is the spec list…
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