NEW OFFERINGS FROM PANASONIC AND CANON AT PHOTOKINA

This year's Photokina exhibit in Germany is shaping up to be very interesting, especially if you are into the high end compact camera market. With smart phones obliterating the low end of the compact camera market, manufacturers have been looking at the high end as an alternative way to keep the segment alive. So far the leaders in this space have been Sony with the RX100 line and Fuji with it's X30 (and previously X20, and X10). There have been other high end compacts of course, but the it was the RX100 in particular that generated the most interest with its large 1 inch sensor. Well, it now has some interesting competition.

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Photokina 2014: Canon Fires Out the 7D Mark II, G7X and New Lenses

The 7D Mark II brings several firsts to the EOS line largely focused, if you will, around the camera’s autofocus system. It will be the first to run dual DIGIC 6 processors with a 10 frames per second (fps) burst mode that has an expanded buffer of up to 31 RAW images or 1,900 JPEGs (the older 7D topped out at 130 JPEGs).  It employs a new 65 cross-type AF system for better low light focusing as well as an improved version of Canon’s Dual Pixel CMOS AF that uses sensors on the CMOS display for phase detection autofocus, improving accuracy during video recording. More firsts for the EOS line include a bulb timer and intervalometer for time lapse and long exposure photography as well as distortion correction for EF and EF-S lenses.

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Global Village
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