> It's working out GREAT! I'm starting to think I got to it just in time.
> But except for you, I'm Canaan's worst nightmare of a customer.
Thank you! Nice to know that I'm better at something than you. :)
Photography ain't one of those things.
> I hope Canaan keeps the FF bodies going on a long time, but I see it
> going the way of the E-system SLRs. The 5DmkIII seems to be what the
> E-3 was to the E-1, or maybe the E-5 to the E-3. Nothing wrong with it,
> but it just barely stays up to the speed of the treadmill.
Canon needed to do the 7D makeover. That was so needed it's silly. But
they really didn't move anything else foreward. It is most certainly a
better camera in every significant way than the 5Dmk2, but it's 2005
all over again--this time Nikon has the upper hand.
What is tough to do is find fault with Canon for how they spec'd and
built the Mk3. They could have just done another evolutionary upgrade
and stuffed some zillion-pixel sensor in it, but instead brought the
camera up to the requirements of the working one-lung photographer
trying to do it all in small-town anywhere.
Honestly, it did surprise me that Canon didn't give it a stupid-high
count sensor, but Canon has the as-run information from the Mk2 which
shows how people had been using it. Few photographers need the jump in
pixels, most photographers just need a decent camera that makes decent
pictures of people. It'll be fine.
I go back to the introduction of the Leica M9. What had me taken about
this camera is that at 18MP, it's right there in the sweet spot of
maximum usability. 16MP is on the low edge of the equation, 24MP on
the high end. Beyond 24MP and we start to do what we did back in the
film days. Those who shot small formats maximized every mm of film.
Those who used larger formats tended to compose for flexibility. End
result was that the actual image magnification for the printed output
remained about the same. So, 18MP, give or take, is what I would
personally consider the best size for the long haul.
Landscape photographers and high-end commercial photographers are
exceptions, of course. Those bed-spread sized prints need some pixels.
AG
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