New 120 mg Canon

[Tigger]

heard about this a while ago now it looks like Canon is showing us - but 120mg !! I don't think my i7 would cope with that and can you imagine processing a 7 shot bracket image 840mg !! no thanks

http://petapixel.com/2016/05/20/canon-120mp-dslr-shows-off-stuff-canon-expo/

I heard a rumor the new 5DmkIIII will be 36mg now that I would be happy with but 120 !!! please LOL

[GORDH]

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Blimey thats an awful lot of pixels on the same size sensor as your 5DIII, I suppose it will be of benefit to studio photographers and other specialised genres but as you say the computers and drives will struggle as for your 7 image HDR shots youd be filling a card up in hours rather than days....how did we survive with 10mpg bodies only a few years ago

[Tigger]

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agree Gordon - I can't see this being used as a day to day camera, cards would need to be huge 512gb and if you went away and filled a few it would take longer to download than the holiday LOL... thats assuming as you say the HD would cope. As it is mine is a 4tb drive and its 60% full most of that being images. Had those been 120mg my system would have stopped ages ago

I'm guessing but maybe more towards astro photography, studio, close up

[GORDH]

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I agree Ian it will have its uses in a very small market I would imagine, astro and macro like you say being prime examples, whats the betting there be loads knocking it, but as far as I know but I could be wrong it will be the biggest full frame SLR to break the 100mpg and you cant knock the development and technology Canon have put into it

[Tigger]

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yep, but this is going to be specialised camera, but I'm sure we will see people jumping onto the bandwagon saying about chasing silly meg cameras

[GORDH]

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Thats what I meant Ian its a given that they will, and most wont even own a Canon DSLR

As an aside for my money I'd still go with Canons though I know they have had their problems and people say the sensors are old hat but from what I read their gear is far less problamtic than Nikons who again from what I've read never recognise or address the issues that buyers have chosing just to ignore it

[El Sid]

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yep, but this is going to be specialised camera, but I'm sure we will see people jumping onto the bandwagon saying about chasing silly meg cameras

And how many will go out and buy one despite not really needing 120 megapixies?...

Big numbers sell, especially to the hard of thinking...

[Tigger]

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Big numbers sell, especially to the hard of thinking...

LOL agree - personally if the new 5D came out with 36meg I'd be more than happy

[Nathaniel]

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It looks like people will use Jpeg with this sort of mpg's rather than RAW!!!!!

[Tony Hawkins]

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That's far too big. You certainly would need some processing power to work with such huge files - new computer(s) as well?

A friend runs a computer museum in Cambridge. They has a room that has a sign over the door that says all the hardware in this room adds up to 640k. How things have moved on...........

[Tigger]

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It looks like people will use Jpeg with this sort of mpg's rather than RAW!!!!!

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That's far too big. You certainly would need some processing power to work with such huge files - new computer(s) as well?

A friend runs a computer museum in Cambridge. They has a room that has a sign over the door that says all the hardware in this room adds up to 640k. How things have moved on...........

agree my Mac wouldn't handle moving 5-7 images around that size!!

agree its crazy how far its advanced, but in a way the software side is still lagging behind, we have the way to produce small devices but the software is still not that intelligent

[Tony Hawkins]

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agree its crazy how far its advanced, but in a way the software side is still lagging behind, we have the way to produce small devices but the software is still not that intelligent

Yes you are right. I went to a BBC radio panel show and one of the guests was Buzz Aldrin. The comedian Jimmy Carr had a birthday card that played a tune when he opened it. The point was being made that the card had more processing power than all of Apollo 11 that Aldrin flew to the moon.

[the black fox]

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O.M.G i read the headers and thought canon had brought out a new lightweight camera ,ITS m.p not m.g I was getting more and more confused as I went on .
Got it now Mega Pixels not Micro Grams

[Tigger]

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Yes you are right. I went to a BBC radio panel show and one of the guests was Buzz Aldrin. The comedian Jimmy Carr had a birthday card that played a tune when he opened it. The point was being made that the card had more processing power than all of Apollo 11 that Aldrin flew to the moon.

LOL crazy

O.M.G i read the headers and thought canon had brought out a new lightweight camera ,ITS m.p not m.g I was getting more and more confused as I went on .
Got it now Mega Pixels not Micro Grams

just think of the crop you could get away with - bolt your big gun on it, and crop to 90% you'd be looking at a 3000mm lens LOL ...I bet your getting excited already :)