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Canon Ambiguous On Mirrorless Camera Plans

Last year, we heard Canon was vaguely planning on getting into the M4/3 camera market. More recently Canon Europe’s head of consumer imaging, Rainer Fuehres, said that Canon has no need to enter the mirrorless compact system (CSC) segment.

Canon Europe head of consumer imaging Rainer Fuehres says “The idea of the compact system camera is nothing to do with whether the camera has a mirror or not, but about creating a small and more portable system. If Canon does take part I hope we won’t introduce just a me-too product, but we’ll use the opportunity to do something different. For Canon it would be about connectivity and providing high image quality in a small form.”

It hasn’t been ruled out that Canon will introduce a CSC. Fuehres indicated that if it were to happen it would only be because Canon could do it in a different manner.

[via electronista]

Nikon Working On Combo Manual-Electronic Zoom For Its Lenses

This is kind of a cool technology Nikon is patenting here. I personally like to do the manual zoom thing when shooting DSLR video, but the slow creeping zoom or quick min-max possible with an electronic zoom rocker are both also valuable tools. As far as I know, there aren’t any consumer cameras that implement both, though I could be wrong about that. At any rate, Nikon is looking into it.

So you’d be able to zoom manually when you’re shooting photos, but keep the camera still if you’re shooting video from a tripod. It’s the best of both worlds, though I imagine it might make the lenses significantly heavier and more expensive.

[via Nikon Rumors and Electronista]

Samsung NX100 Mirrorless Camera: Smooth [DigitalCameras]

The NX10, Samsung’s first mirrorless camera, was smaller than a DSLR, but it still looked like a DSLR. The NX100 does not—it’s all flat surfaces and gentle curves and even sticks a manual control on the lens itself. More »

Shooting Challenge: Inappropriate Holiday Browsing [Shooting Challenge]

You’re home for the holidays, and once again, friends and family are thwarting your opportunities to browse the internet. So we’d like Giz readers to fight back, reclaim the holiday in digital protest and capture the moment while doing so.

This week’s Shooting Challenge? Inappropriate Holiday Browsing.

For inspiration, look at the results of our last inappropriate browsing contest (warning, some NSFW images). The shot need not include Gizmodo, but someone should be online, ruining the holiday cheer.

The rules:

1. Submissions need to be your own.
2. Photos need to be taken the week of the contest. (No portfolio linking or it spoils the “challenge” part.)
3. Explain, briefly, the equipment, settings and technique used to snag the shot.
4. Email submissions to contests@gizmodo.com.
5. Include 800px image AND something wallpaper sized in email.

Send your best entries by Sunday at 6PM Eastern to contests@gizmodo.com with “Inappropriate Holiday Browsing” in the subject line. Save your files as JPGs or GIFs at 800 pixels wide, and use a FirstnameLastname.jpg naming convention using whatever name you want to be credited with. Include your shooting summary (camera, lens, ISO, etc) in the body of the email.

Canon 7D shots can carry over ghost image to next shot (fix imminent)

Even cameras with mechanical shutters, it seems, aren’t immune to sensor carryover issues. It seems that when you’re doing that famous 8FPS continuous shooting, it’s possible under certain circumstances that a ghost image will be present in the next image shot. Canon says it’s “barely noticeable,” but someone must have noticed anyway because they’re having to issue a fix. It doesn’t occur in single shots or movies; I’m guessing it’s just a timing issue where the sensor isn’t completely reset before the new exposure begins.

Here’s Canon’s statement:

In images captured by continuous shooting, and under certain conditions, barely noticeable traces of the immediately preceding frame may be visible. This phenomenon is not noticeable in an image with optimal exposure. The phenomenon may become more noticeable if a retouching process such as level compensation is applied to emphasize the image.

A fix should be here soon, I’d guess within a day or two. In the meantime, those of you with 7Ds should try to replicate it! It sounds kinda cool. I get an effect like that when I’m doing a flash+long exposure and a second flash goes off in the background. It looks crazy as hell. The 7D bug should be nothing like that, but hey.

[via CameraTown]

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