Very, *VERY* exciting new goodies from Canon!

[Wallydraigle]

I don't know if anyone else picked up on this or not, but the new camera has dual media slots, one for CF and one for SD. That Canon would include a SD slot in their new pro DSLR says something about the future viability of the medium. Expect SD to become a lot more mainstream in the near future.

 

[Ornery]

"Ornery, a 10D with a 24-70mm f/2.8 and a 70-200mm IS f/2.8 would run about $4500ish I think. Shouldn't be much more, maybe a little less. That's about as bright as SLR zooms get at the present. "

By golly, that sounds totally reasonable, and plenty bright enough!

 

[Wallydraigle]

Originally posted by: Ornery
"Ornery, a 10D with a 24-70mm f/2.8 and a 70-200mm IS f/2.8 would run about $4500ish I think. Shouldn't be much more, maybe a little less. That's about as bright as SLR zooms get at the present. "

By golly, that sounds totally reasonable, and plenty bright enough!

I just priced those three pieces of equipment and the total comes out to just under $4300, so once you buy some memory I was close enough.


EOS 10D: $1499.95

24mm-70mm f/2.8 L USM: $1179.95

70mm-200mm f/2.8 L IS USM: $1599.99

Total: $4279.85

All prices retail at B+H Photo.


For what you can do with that I'd say it's not a bad deal at all.

 

[oldfart]

Canon EOS-1D Mark II, 8.2 mp, 8.5 fps. Info is up on DPreview.

 

[Wallydraigle]

Overviews of the new lenses are up on DPreview now. Look how tiny the new 70-300mm DO is compared to the old one! What an inconspicuous people and travel lens. The MTFs look impressive at 300mm too, less impressive at 70mm, but not shabby. I'm going to be all over this one

 

[Wallydraigle]

The new lenses and the new 1D II are now on Canon USA's website.

 

[AmdInside]

The camera is impressive, more evolutionary than revolutionary, but still impressive. However the prices are out of most customers range. Canon really needs something in between the Canon 10D and 1D MKII.

The lenses I could care less about since they are way to slow.

 

[Wallydraigle]

Originally posted by: AmdInside
The camera is impressive, more evolutionary than revolutionary, but still impressive. However the prices are out of most customers range. Canon really needs something in between the Canon 10D and 1D MKII.

The lenses I could care less about since they are way to slow.

I agree, there's a huge price and feature gap there for the time being. Even though the market gap isn't huge and gaping, it would be nice to have another model in between the 10D and the 1DII. Don't think for a moment that there won't be something new at Photokina this fall

As for the lenses, slow is relative. It all depends on what you want. There are places I wouldn't take my 70-200mm f/2.8 IS, but the 70-300mm DO would do perfectly since it's so small and light (and black). You know if Canon announced some new 24-150mm f/2.8 lens that weighed 4.5 pounds people would bitch about that too The 28-300mm monstrosity I'm not too interested in. I can't for the life of me figure out why they would release both of these lenses together. The old model that either one of them is replacing desperately needed updated. I can understand why they would replace both of them, but at the same time? It seems like more variety would have served them better.