Monthly Archives: September 2009

Read the Instructions before you even see the 7D

Here’s an interesting twist. Our guru on all things Canon and digital still(s), Mark Forman, points out that you can read the Canon EOS 7D Instruction Manual and become familiar with its Pocket Guide and software well in advance of its actually being in your eager hands. There will be a test.

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Canon 7D

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Canon 7D HD Test

Here’s a short test we did with a Beta pre-production sample of the Canon EOS 7D on August 19th. MOS. Click HD and Full Screen for hi-rez. [wpvideo gjiedkGb] Looks like WordPress is re-compressing the file, above. Right click on this link, save the 36MB file to your desktop and view it in Quicktime Player Full Screen: Right click and… read more…

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Cooke 5/i and Panchro/i IBC Special (PDF)

The lensmakers in Leicester have been working overtime. Cooke surprised us at IBC with a new series: The Cooke 5/i. There will initially be 9 lenses in the series: 18, 25, 32, 40, 50, 65, 75, 100 and 135mm, all T1.4-T22. Read about our tests of 100mm pre-production samples of the new 5/i and Panchro/i lenses, along with a Cooke S4/i 100mm. The Cooke Look isn’t imaginary—it’s really there. read more…