The New Canon 1D X!

14fps ONLY in mirror lock up? lame sauce!!

What do you have against homosexuals?

Leviticus 20:13
20:13
If a man has sexual intercourse with a male as one has sexual
intercourse with a woman, the two of them have committed an abomination.
They must be put to death; their blood guilt is on themselves

Take your hate elsewhere. Your brand of religious terrorism is not only not wanted, but will be vigorously defended against. You’re a false prophet.

your ideas for a dream camera are pretty dumb.  your not even talking about a camera anymore.  what you want is a computer that is designed to do what is technically impossible right now just so you can play around and not worry about shooting the shots right the first time.  choosing your depth of field after the shot?  Thats one of the main things a photographer does.  without doing things like that  your just another random person pointing your camera and not caring how good its shot.  Wanting a camera that can tell where things are in 3d so you can move them in the shot later?  Your ideas are just really dumb and sounds like they arent coming from a real photographer.  We are photographers. We want better cameras that actually improve on things we use the most. Who wants to be stuck shooting cameras at only 5 mps or 800 iso? The only way to make a better camera for real photographers is to improve these things.  not turn a camera into some super device thats capable of doing completely impossible things. Learn to shoot the photos right in the first place and you wont need all these stupid things you want in a camera.

Seems my dream camera is much more down to earth than yours: What I’d buy in an instant would be something like the D700′s sensor in a 7D, priced well below $2000. Until that camera shows up, I keep hoping my 40D (and RebelXT) doesn’t break.

From your wish list, higher dynamic range would be my first buy-in.

I’d expect photo journalists to be 1DX customers, btw.

This is ridiculous, get off phlearn.

My PERFECT camera is the one who can capture my thoughts
images. Yes, this is not really a camera, it’s like a screen capture,
but this is that I really want, something that capture the images in my
head.

By the way, Chris, you inspired me the end of a series of photos that I
have in mind, thank you. You will see it in the future (I hope no to
far, I don’t really have time to take photos those days).

Have a nice day guys!

A company called Lytro already created a sensor that not only measures the color and intensity of light, but also the direction.  It allows you to focus after the fact on your computer.  Its pretty snazzy.  They used to have example pics up but it seems they took them down for some big announcement, that appears to be today….

My dream camera is simple:
No noise whatsoever, exact colour rendering and a dynamic range matching the human eye. The 16 Megapixels I have now is good enough. As I am an underwaterphotographer: completely waterproof to 100 metres or so (it would be nice to toss out these heavy and bulky underwater housings), with depth-driven colour correction coupled with distance metering in both natural light situations AND using strobes. Forget image stabilisation – include 3D gyroscopic stabilisation of the body.

You will see and you will remember my words

Hello Aaron, 
My dream camera has got Siri built in!

That would be very cool!

I would also like my dream camera to come with:

A better diopter.
The default pop up flash can be removed and still triggered whilst off camera.
Better tri-pod screw! Am I the only person who when I put my camera tripod on portrait stance it slowly unscrews?
Full touchscreen on the back, if we did not have buttons the screen would be about 4-5″ so can we not remove them and make it all touchscreen.

maybe an answer to your wishes of the perfect camera : http://www.lytro.com/.
it’s a begining

I am waaaiiiting and waiting for the new 5Dmkiii  (or 6D?)  ZZzz…. (((

It’s obvious that this camera is aimed directly at Nikon’s D3s. It’s the perfect wedding camera, that’s basically what this camera is made for. More or less. I own and use a 5D Mark II for all my work, I’m a full time photographer, that’s my job, and while I don’t make tons of cash, I make enough to get by. I think wedding photographers, successful ones, make a LOT of money. Way more than enough to grab two Canon 1DX cameras if they really wanted.

25-40 weddings a year at a minimum of 3500 dollars a wedding? That’s a lot more money than most people make at photography of any kind. I don’t shoot that many weddings, but I average about 15 a year. But I shoot mostly other types of stuff, weddings aren’t “my thing”.

The 1DX is something I would consider getting purely for the weddings I shoot every year. Going on assignment for travel photography in crazy environments, documentary work, stuff like that (again, weddings as well) this camera will be the ultimate (for a few years of course).

I love my 5D Mark II, and have been using it for just about 3 years now. It’s great. But like everything it has it’s problems, for studio work, for location work where you’re always shooting stationary stuff, always shooting low ISO, it’s amazing. Hell, it’s amazing for almost everything else.

I believe over all that the 1DX is filling that D3s market share on the Canon side, and to me that’s great. It’s not the ideal dream camera for people who shoot models and other creative stuff that need high dynamic range and high megapixels. But it fills that roll well too. Like I said, it’s clearly Canon’s attempt to take direct aim at the Nikon D3s and take it up a notch. Good or bad, it’s definitely done that.

My realistic dream camera, because I want something to make my 5D2 go to back up duty next year, is something, like you said, more dynamic range, 21-26 megapixels, AF system of about 19 AF points, most cross type. Higher ISO, because I do shoot weddings, and I do not like on camera flash. Etc. etc.

It’s coming, but when…..

Also the price point for the 1DX should have been a bit closer to $5500.00 or so.

A revolution is upon us Aaron! Check out the Frankencamera! http://youtu.be/Psi_njPBryE

Can someone explain to me why Chris’ audio sounds great while Aaron’s has an echo to it?

I have a leica m8, I want an m9

no bells and whisles, all there is are 2 dials on the lens and a shutter button

OK, I think there’s a current technology that allows clear panes of glass to become opaque when a current is passed through them. I think some posh offices and very posh homes have them so you can have floor to ceiling windows during the day letting light flood in and, at the flick of a switch, opaque windows at night blocking nosey neighbours.

I’d like this technology in lenses to replace the current, physical, mechanical aperture with the electronic glass aperture. By using this tech to create aperture masks on the glass aperture surface, blocking light and allowing light in where necessary I’m sure this would allow for wide–open f/1 apertures just as easily as f/128! The electronic aperture would effectively be a tiny, programmable light mask. Depending upon the glass aperture’s “resolution” the aperture could be as circular or as polygonal as you like. Any–sided if you wish.

I’m sure it would also be possible to arrange for “shapes” to be created on the electronic glass aperture so you’d be able to “upload” shaped apertures for star or heart–shaped bokeh for example which would scale nicely across the range of f–stops unlike the current method of cutting out a mask from black paper.

Read this. http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2011/11/canon-1d-x-stupidity/

My dream camera the over pricing gone and wifi build in