Canon 5D White Paper

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"deryck lant" <deryck@deryck.com> wrote in message
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> http://www.robgalbraith.com/public [...] _Paper.pdf
>
> The AF is improved

Could the AF points be any further from the edges? Ridiculous!

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>> Could the AF points be any further from the edges? Ridiculous!

>Mark Morgan agrees ...
>
>I agree. They are FAR too close to center.

I dunno, they look OK to me, if you are going to make do with 9 sensors
.... I'm kind of used to 45 sensors now so I can move the focus point
around to an eye quickly, like this shot showing the AF points (the red
ones are active) ...
http://members.aol.com/bhilton665/bunny_af.jpg ... the edge sensors in
this design seem about the same place in the frame as the 5D sensors
did in the PDF file shots.

BTW, the white paper also seems to confirm existence of the 1D Mark II
n at $4,000 by mentioning it a couple of times as another "new" Canon
body, though they didn't say what features it will have, ie, full frame
at 12 Mpix or 1.3x at 12 Mpix or ???

Bill

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"Bill Hilton" <bhilton665@aol.com> wrote in message
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>>> Could the AF points be any further from the edges? Ridiculous!
>
>>Mark Morgan agrees ...
>>
>>I agree. They are FAR too close to center.
>
> I dunno, they look OK to me, if you are going to make do with 9 sensors

Compared with the AF sensors in my 10D, they are clearly farther away from
the right and left edges of the screen. They are likely similar, if not
identical, to the 20D.


> ... I'm kind of used to 45 sensors now so I can move the focus point
> around to an eye quickly, like this shot showing the AF points (the red
> ones are active) ...
> http://members.aol.com/bhilton665/bunny_af.jpg ... the edge sensors in
> this design seem about the same place in the frame as the 5D sensors
> did in the PDF file shots.
>
> BTW, the white paper also seems to confirm existence of the 1D Mark II
> n at $4,000 by mentioning it a couple of times as another "new" Canon
> body, though they didn't say what features it will have, ie, full frame
> at 12 Mpix or 1.3x at 12 Mpix or ???
>
> Bill
>

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"Kinon O'cann" <Yes.it's.me.Bowser> wrote in message
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> "Dave R knows who" <kilbyfan@spamnotAOL.com> wrote in message
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>> "deryck lant" <deryck@deryck.com> wrote in message
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>>> http://www.robgalbraith.com/public [...] _Paper.pdf
>>>
>>> The AF is improved
>>
>> Could the AF points be any further from the edges? Ridiculous!
>
> Same mistake made by Nikon on the F6. Apparently, they didn't stretch the
> AF area to accomodate FF. Bad move.

I thought of that, and it does make sense, since they took the unit right
out of the 20D.

This, in my view, is a serious flaw.

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"Mark²" <mjmorgan(lowest even number here)@cox..net> wrote in message
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> "Dave R knows who" <kilbyfan@spamnotAOL.com> wrote in message
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>> "deryck lant" <deryck@deryck.com> wrote in message
>> news:31303030313839354309E52795@deryck.com...
>>> http://www.robgalbraith.com/public [...] _Paper.pdf
>>>
>>> The AF is improved
>>
>> Could the AF points be any further from the edges? Ridiculous!
>
> I agree. They are FAR too close to center.
> A significant lapse by Canon.
>
heheh, I feel like they are too far from the center...different usages. I
miss the points between the center and the ends that the 5 sensor cameras
had.

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