Comments on: High-end Canon SLR counters Nikon

Canon's EOS-1D Mark III offers 10.1 megapixels, boosts sensor's light sensitivity, adds new image processor and gets live image preview.
Photos: Canon's 10.1 megapixels

[Dachi]

5 other models also launched today

Canon also launched 5 consumer models today.

DailyTech has them here: http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=6193

[Shankland]

CNET covered those cameras on Crave

Yes, indeed. We covered the other cameras on our Crave blog:

http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9689464-1.html

http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9689357-1.html

http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9689283-1.html

[skrubol]

Odd comparisons

1st, the article headline is a little odd. It's not like this is Canon's first 10MP SLR. They have a 16, 12 and another 10 MP SLR. Also I'm not sure what Nikon product they're countering with this camera. No Nikon SLR I could find has over 5FPS. This is a high-speed pro camera. The only camera that can be compared to it is its predecessor (8MP, 8FPS.) If you want high-resolution, go with the 1Ds MkII. That gets you 16MP.

[Syrrys]

Canon said sraw is what?, Canon said.

[quote]Canon said sraw has a quarter the resolution, half the file size and a quarter the resolution of conventional raw images, Canon said.[/quote]

While I do love palindromes, this "sentence" doesn't quite make the cut and really doesn't make sense.

[Syrrys]

elsewhere....

K so now I've moved past the grammar, but still does this make sense to anyone else? [quote from http://www.usa.canon.com/templatedata/pressrelease/20070221_1dmark3.html "sRAW" has all the flexibility of standard RAW data recording, but at one quarter the resolution and approximately half the file size of conventional RAW images.[/quote]
.5 the file size but only .25 the resolution? Is there some funny math going on here that I'm missing? Shouldn't a quarter the resolution take only a quarter of the storage space?

[Shankland]

Thanks!

We fixed that grammar.

[make_or_break]

What I really like about Canon

Is that it puts pressure on Nikon--the brand I [i]do[/i] shoot--to continue to develop their product responses. Competition is indeed a good thing.