Canon has released Digital photo pro 3.0 to the general public. You’ll need your original installation disk in order to upgrade, here’s the link. http://www.canon.ca The major improvements that I’ve noticed is that it’s much faster, and you can now apply noise reduction on a shot by shot basis.
There is an interesting review of the current dust cleaning technololgies over at pixinfo.com The results are quite surprising. I really thought that things would work better. I’m still curious to see some real world results, the tests that they ran were pretty extreme.
Well, I think it’s safe to say that this years PMA has been pretty disappointing. The biggest news was the Olympus E410/E510, both of these seem like interesting cameras. In the Nikon camp you have the D40x, which I have to say was a bit of a surprise. I didn’t expect to see an upgrade to such a newly released camera. At the other end of the spectrum was Canon with it’s 1D Mark III, I think this was probably the most interesting as far as technology goes. Live preview, 10fps and dual DIGIC III. I think this gives us a glimpse of what’s possible. It looks like all the D3 and 1Ds predictions were wrong, as well as the 40d. I guess we’ll just have to wait for Photokina.
Sony has announced that that they are going to enter the professional DSLR market. Two prototypes were shown that target the advanced amateur and the professional photographer. Presumably these are based on the Konica/Minolta 7D and the next generation 7D. No real specifications are listed for these bodies, but they say one of them will be released before the end of the year. I’m not sure if Sony has what it takes to enter the professional market, the Canon/Nikon nut is a pretty tough one to crack.
Source:www.phtographybay.com
I’m not sure if I believe this or not. The live viewfinder I can see them adding, Canon has shown that this can be done in the 1DIII. In body image stabilization seems to contradict their message that in lens stabalization is better, and I’m not sure what would happen if you combine both. It seems like you would have to disable one or the other. As is pointed out by the author of the article, weather sealing has been offered by other companies in their lower priced bodies. So far Canon has used this as a differentiator between their pro and semi-pro bodies. Perhaps the competition has forced them to bring this to lower end models.
Everything else is as expected, higher resolution, lower noise, yada yada…
This was a bit of a surprise, but Nikon has announced a “sister” camera to the D40. It sounds like this is going to be sold alongside the recently released D40. The body is identical to the D40, but the D40x features a bump in resolution and is faster all around.
D40 Highlights
As expected Olympus announced the E-410 and E-510 today. They’ve also stated that the E-1 replacement will be available by the end of the year.
E-410 Highlights
The E-510 is the same, but in a larger more robust body. It also includes an optical image stablizer.
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