Canon announcement 9-29-09 "one of the most important launches in company's history"

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Taylor Rudd said:
The last thing this forum needed was more fuel to the speculation fire. Dammit.
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Yeah... sorry about that Taylor, but given the 7D that totally took me by surprise with 24p and 720 60p, I am so psyched for the possibilities and all the people pointing hopefully to a full fledged video camera with a large sensor...OMG. All the money and niche industries that have risen around giving us struggling indies the holy grail of shallow DoF; the glimpses at the promise land becoming ever clearer with each sebsequent camera, the D90, then the 5Dmkii, then the GH1, and now the 7D, we are finally about to cross the River Jordan!!!! For us little guys with big dreams looking at the big guys with 35mm, F23, Genesis, Dalsa, etc... they seemed like Gods among men. Then the Red One came out and mortals could now go to the mountain top and converse with God, but still only a select few like Moses. Now that dream is somewhere between $5-$8k away for a complete system that I can edit on with what I all ready roll with. Either there are no more Gods, or Heaven just came a lot closer to earth...
 
Johnny Cola said:
Yeah... sorry about that Taylor, but given the 7D that totally took me by surprise with 24p and 720 60p, I am so psyched for the possibilities and all the people pointing hopefully to a full fledged video camera with a large sensor...OMG. All the money and niche industries that have risen around giving us struggling indies the holy grail of shallow DoF; the glimpses at the promise land becoming ever clearer with each sebsequent camera, the D90, then the 5Dmkii, then the GH1, and now the 7D, we are finally about to cross the River Jordan!!!! For us little guys with big dreams looking at the big guys with 35mm, F23, Genesis, Dalsa, etc... they seemed like Gods among men. Then the Red One came out and mortals could now go to the mountain top and converse with God, but still only a select few like Moses. Now that dream is somewhere between $5-$8k away for a complete system that I can edit on with what I all ready roll with. Either there are no more Gods, or Heaven just came a lot closer to earth...
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Wait ....Moses had a Red One? Did he film "The 10 Commandments" on that?
 
NOOOOOOO!!!!! DAMN DAMN DAMN! Unless it can print me up a video camera, NOOOOOO!!!

I bet just like most cutting edge technologies, the sex industry will be the one that really makes the most out of it...
 
Johnny Cola said:
Yeah... sorry about that Taylor, but given the 7D that totally took me by surprise with 24p and 720 60p, I am so psyched for the possibilities and all the people pointing hopefully to a full fledged video camera with a large sensor...OMG. All the money and niche industries that have risen around giving us struggling indies the holy grail of shallow DoF; the glimpses at the promise land becoming ever clearer with each sebsequent camera, the D90, then the 5Dmkii, then the GH1, and now the 7D, we are finally about to cross the River Jordan!!!! For us little guys with big dreams looking at the big guys with 35mm, F23, Genesis, Dalsa, etc... they seemed like Gods among men. Then the Red One came out and mortals could now go to the mountain top and converse with God, but still only a select few like Moses. Now that dream is somewhere between $5-$8k away for a complete system that I can edit on with what I all ready roll with. Either there are no more Gods, or Heaven just came a lot closer to earth...
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Haven't you heard? God is dead. We have killed him.
 
It's the SM-01, the first digital DMSC!! Digital Soccer Mom Camera. It's going to CRUSH Red before they even get started! It's awesome. Some guy who's a friend of my brother's wife's sister told me so. So it must be true!!! [Canceling 7D order]
 
ydgmdlu said:
Haven't you heard? God is dead. We have killed him.
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It was a Western culture metaphore on my part, not confession of faith... unless I get a camera :)

Boz said:
It's the SM-01, the first digital DMSC!! Digital Soccer Mom Camera. It's going to CRUSH Red before they even get started! It's awesome. Some guy who's a friend of my brother's wife's sister told me so. So it must be true!!! [Canceling 7D order]
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(That's right, stick to our plan, we'll get our 7D pre-order yet)
 
Looking forward to it. No speculation as to what it is, but if it's something along the lines of a real, factual incredible video camera then I'm all in. Wallet's gonna be on fire but I'll be out recouping my money from day one.
 
Kholi said:
Looking forward to it. No speculation as to what it is, but if it's something along the lines of a real, factual incredible video camera then I'm all in. Wallet's gonna be on fire but I'll be out recouping my money from day one.
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Love your hardcore work ethic bro! You'll have that thing recouped the first weekend out probably :)
 
It's the only way I can have a decent toy to NOT do anything with. =(

Actually, though, I'm going to speculate a little: Does anyone really think this is a full blown video camera? I mean, if it's a camera AT ALL? LoL

Let's take into account that if it's anywhere near prosumer, and I've been saying this since the "Put it in a bigger camera!" thing came up... they would have had to been developing an incredible, detachable, full servo/full auto lens for quite some time to hold up to say an APS-C sized sensor.

That's going to drive the price up significantly.

So does anyone think that they've done this? Gone ahead and produced a full blown auto lens and what we're about to see is the first offer from one of the major companies in the vein of a Cinema/Prosumer Camera Hybrid?
 
It could be a printer, man. Canon isn't just video and it's just a rumor. In fact, I was thinking that it was some merger with another company until I re-read the invitation and it said "release". So that means it's a product.

Could be completely non camera related. In fact, I would count on it not being camera related just to not be sad in the event of.
 
Digigenic said:
The teaser image doesn't appear to indicate a camera of any kind.
It's a large box under a red cloth.
Sure, under the box could be a camera, but it's unnecessary.
The box would seem to indicate it's a display.
Some people were saying SSD or OLED displays, not sure.
New cameras can get a lot of hype, but this seems to be something on a much larger scale, and Canon's been trying to break into the display business for a long time. A new type of display would be a big deal for the company and the industry, a new camera, not so much.
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I was just thinking this same thing. A display. It makes sense, but we'll see. I'm really doubting it's a camera.
 
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