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Title: Canon 60D focuses on HD video
Post by: Simon on August 27, 2010, 18:22
Canon has released its long-awaited EOS 60D, a replacement for the two-year-old 50D.

With an 18-megapixel APS-C CMOS sensor, a DIGIC 4 processor and a nine-point auto-focus system, the camera packs a fair punch for stills photographers, but it is the advances in video that catch the eye.

For a start, the camera has a 3in fully-articulated screen of the type commonly found on camcorders. The screen swivels and tilts to make framing shots from odd angles more comfortable. According to Canon, the attention on video marks a commitment to include HD video in more of its DSLRs.

Videos can be recorded in 1080p at 30, 25 or 24 frames per second and 720p movies can be recorded at 60 or 50 frames per second.

Read more: http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/360643/canon-60d-focuses-on-hd-video
Title: Re: Canon 60D focuses on HD video
Post by: Rik on August 27, 2010, 18:26
I've been testing a Fuji this week which has 1080p, but the design is a compromise between still and camcorder and it shows.
Title: Re: Canon 60D focuses on HD video
Post by: Simon on August 27, 2010, 18:29
In what way?
Title: Re: Canon 60D focuses on HD video
Post by: Rik on August 27, 2010, 18:51
The zoom is 'steppy', the autofocus is not as effective on moving targets and often picks up something still in the background, finally, the image processing chip is having to compromise between speed and quality.
Title: Re: Canon 60D focuses on HD video
Post by: Simon on August 27, 2010, 19:12
Perhaps gadgets should go back to being one thing or another?
Title: Re: Canon 60D focuses on HD video
Post by: Rik on August 28, 2010, 09:26
I think so. Personally, I miss the days of film - in so many ways, you had more control over the final image.
Title: Re: Canon 60D focuses on HD video
Post by: Simon on August 28, 2010, 12:16
You can still get film cameras, can't you?  Of course, it means you've got to carry rolls of it around with you...
Title: Re: Canon 60D focuses on HD video
Post by: Rik on August 28, 2010, 12:17
It's getting the film and processing these days.
Title: Re: Canon 60D focuses on HD video
Post by: Simon on August 28, 2010, 12:22
I believe TruPrint are still going.  ;D
Title: Re: Canon 60D focuses on HD video
Post by: Rik on August 28, 2010, 12:24
 ::)
Title: Re: Canon 60D focuses on HD video
Post by: Simon on August 28, 2010, 12:25
Back in the day, though, it was quite exciting to get the pack of photos in the post.  :)
Title: Re: Canon 60D focuses on HD video
Post by: Rik on August 28, 2010, 12:43
It was, even if half of them were rubbish. :)
Title: Re: Canon 60D focuses on HD video
Post by: Simon on August 28, 2010, 12:47
Just half?  ;D
Title: Re: Canon 60D focuses on HD video
Post by: Rik on August 28, 2010, 12:54
I was careful. :)
Title: Re: Canon 60D focuses on HD video
Post by: Clive on August 28, 2010, 16:09
Quote from: Simon on August 28, 2010, 12:25
Back in the day, though, it was quite exciting to get the pack of photos in the post.  :)

Or not when they went missing!   :bawl:
Title: Re: Canon 60D focuses on HD video
Post by: Simon on August 28, 2010, 16:28
I must have been lucky.  :)
Title: Re: Canon 60D focuses on HD video
Post by: GillE on August 29, 2010, 00:15
What did Snow White sing when waiting for Tru-Print to deliver her wedding photographs?




































































'Someday my prints will come...'

Sorry
Title: Re: Canon 60D focuses on HD video
Post by: Simon on August 29, 2010, 01:13
:aarrgh: :out: ;D
Title: Re: Canon 60D focuses on HD video
Post by: Clive on August 29, 2010, 08:50
 :haha:  Dreadful! 
Title: Re: Canon 60D focuses on HD video
Post by: Rik on August 30, 2010, 17:11
:groan: