SC PHOTOS wrote:
Apparently a new SLR will be replacing the infamous 5D towards the end of 2008. Anyone know anything about this? I heard it from a friend but havn't found any updates or info online about it.

they'll break into the full frame market finally!

Pardue Photographic wrote:

they'll break into the full frame market finally!

5D is already a full frame. i dont know what u mean. but no. Canon keeps that stuff SUPER TOP SECRET, so all your gonna hear is rumors brotha..... I wish i knew more.... but im saving..... but then gonna wait a few months so they can work the bugs out.

SC PHOTOS wrote:
infamous 5D

The 5D is famous, not infamous.  Look up the word.  You may have been trying to make a joke, but it falls completely flat because you misunderstand the word "infamous". Sheesh.

DISTINCT BLACK PHOTO wrote:

5D is already a full frame. i dont know what u mean. but no. Canon keeps that stuff SUPER TOP SECRET, so all your gonna hear is rumors brotha..... I wish i knew more.... but im saving..... but then gonna wait a few months so they can work the bugs out.

it was a backwards stab at nikon (since all their cameras are backwards to begin with)

Monito -- Alan wrote:

The 5D is famous, not infamous.  Look up the word.  You may have been trying to make a joke, but it falls completely flat because you misunderstand the word "infamous". Sheesh.

Alan, did someone piss in your Cornflakes or is it that time of the month?

Monito -- Alan wrote:

The 5D is famous, not infamous.  Look up the word.  You may have been trying to make a joke, but it falls completely flat because you misunderstand the word "infamous". Sheesh.

I'm sorry.. i'm not majoring in English.
I'm just trying to get a BA in Photography/ Graphic Design.
Thank you for the English lesson tho

Monito -- Alan wrote:

The 5D is famous, not infamous.  Look up the word.  You may have been trying to make a joke, but it falls completely flat because you misunderstand the word "infamous". Sheesh.

Well sort of Infamous in that it has sluggish AF, it's consumer body is a dust magnet and it's so long in the tooth the rumor of it's replacement has been around for nearly 2 years. instead they just dropped the price by a grand. Right where it should have always been.

Monito -- Alan wrote:
The 5D is famous, not infamous.  Look up the word.  You may have been trying to make a joke, but it falls completely flat because you misunderstand the word "infamous". Sheesh.

Rich Fehrman wrote:
Alan, did someone piss in your Cornflakes or is it that time of the month?

SC PHOTOS wrote:
I'm sorry.. i'm not majoring in English. I'm just trying to get a BA in Photography/ Graphic Design. Thank you for the English lesson tho

Sorry if I caught some of you on the rebound.  I had a major very painful cramp today.  I was explaining it to a photographer friend via chat who I have many times given hours of sympathy for her illness, and after she was giving me some wrong advice about it that I objected to, she wrote "Ok.  Enjoy your cramp."

I'm sorry I barked at you.  I do like well-written English.

Monito -- Alan wrote:
The 5D is famous, not infamous.  Look up the word.  You may have been trying to make a joke, but it falls completely flat because you misunderstand the word "infamous". Sheesh.

R Michael Walker wrote:
Well sort of Infamous in that it has sluggish AF, it's consumer body is a dust magnet and it's so long in the tooth the rumor of it's replacement has been around for nearly 2 years. instead they just dropped the price by a grand. Right where it should have always been.

Look up the word.  You too are misusing it, even if you believe what you write about the 5D.

I have a 5D.  It is not a "consumer body", just because it doesn't weigh a ton like a 1Ds2.  It is not a dust magnet, and I change my lenses frequently.  It is only "long in the tooth" by comparison to the consumer DSLRs like the 400D or the 40 Dseries that are replaced every 18 months, but that is because it is not a consumer camera.  If you don't want to buy one, you don't have to, but it is not infamous.

The 5D has an enviable, wonderful reputation due to its astonishing image quality, attested to frequently on this site, on the web, and in print.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/infamous
1.    having an extremely bad reputation: an infamous city.
2.    deserving of or causing an evil reputation; shamefully malign; detestable: an infamous deed.

Monito -- Alan wrote:
I do like well-written English.

Like "major very painful cramp?"

Monito -- Alan wrote:
I do like well-written English.

Lee K wrote:
Like "major very painful cramp?"

"major" meaning a large skeletal muscle, in this case a calf muscle.  "painful" is an accurate report.

I think you are objecting to the word "major", which is often abused in the form "majorly", but my usage was the adjective not the adverb.  You may think that I am illiterate, but even though I never have been an English major (noun), I will let the rest of my posts on this site stand for me.  I was a photography major and then a math / computer science major.  Perhaps you are or were an English major, or perhaps not.

SC PHOTOS wrote:
Apparently a new SLR will be replacing the infamous 5D towards the end of 2008. Anyone know anything about this? I heard it from a friend but havn't found any updates or info online about it.

People have been predicting, incorrectly, that the 5D replacement is "imminent" for the last year or so.  Nobody that will tell knows.

Personally, I am eagerly hoping that one does arrive for 3K or under.  Good luck with your speculation!

Monito -- Alan wrote:
It is not a dust magnet, and I change my lenses frequently.

I never understood this either.  I had and used a 5d extensively for years, changed lenses often as well.  I never had any dust issues, as long as you change lenses quick, keep the camera pointed down, and don't leave it open laying around you shouldn't have many issues.

Besides really basic sensor cleaning isn't that difficult at all.

SC PHOTOS wrote:

I'm sorry.. i'm not majoring in English.
I'm just trying to get a BA in Photography/ Graphic Design.
Thank you for the English lesson tho

me too. but they tell me that i maxed out my federal aid.

Pardue Photographic wrote:

they'll break into the full frame market finally!

I's hate to break it to you but the 5d and the 1d is already full frame and they have been for years now........cheers

Monito -- Alan wrote:

Look up the word.  You too are misusing it, even if you believe what you write about the 5D.

I have a 5D.  It is not a "consumer body", just because it doesn't weigh a ton like a 1Ds2.  It is not a dust magnet, and I change my lenses frequently.  It is only "long in the tooth" by comparison to the consumer DSLRs like the 400D or the 40 Dseries that are replaced every 18 months, but that is because it is not a consumer camera.  If you don't want to buy one, you don't have to, but it is not infamous.

The 5D has an enviable, wonderful reputation due to its astonishing image quality, attested to frequently on this site, on the web, and in print.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/infamous
1.    having an extremely bad reputation: an infamous city.
2.    deserving of or causing an evil reputation; shamefully malign; detestable: an infamous deed.

I agree!
I saw some very awesome large 5D prints from a professional photographer Wednesday evening.

Alan from Aavian Prod wrote:
OK, I have a prediction.  I predict that Canon will release a new DSLR or an updated DSLR in the next twenty-four months.

You're amazing!!   

Alex Minkin Photography wrote:
im just hoping canon releases something cool to keep them ahead of nikon.

im already planning to skip the 5d right to a 1d3

And may I ask why the need to be "ahead of Nikon" ,wouldn't be better that Canon continues to deliver good photographic tools as they have done it until today?

Monito -- Alan wrote:

The 5D is famous, not infamous.  Look up the word.  You may have been trying to make a joke, but it falls completely flat because you misunderstand the word "infamous". Sheesh.

Actually the 5D may well be "infamous"...among Nikon users.

Kevlar Vest Girl wrote:
My neighbor is the local Canon rep. He has a few cameras in testing with some of the local pros. The name is Canon 6D II. 3 processors, a full frame chip, 15.3 MP, 5 frames per second, 3200 ISO, partial titanium body, due out this fall at $2100.00.

I think Bob is pretty close from what I've heard (although I think he meant 5D II, there is no 6D so it's hard to image a Mark II already!) The new camera should have a new auto focus system, the dust removal system and live preview which has appeared on all the latest Canon DSLR's, and a higher resolution preview screen. Release date is unkown, although I think it may be sooner than expected (I "hope" it might be sooner is probably more accurate!), and the price is always a question given the current problems with the dollar.

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Reynard Alli wrote:
I'm dying for  an affordable full frame camera such as the 5Dmk2, 7d, or whatever they are going to call it. I am a 400d user and I put one of my 18-50 lenses on an old 35mm and was amazed at how wide the 18mm is.

If that 18-50mm is an EF-S lens it won't work on a full frame body without some major mods.

Monito -- Alan wrote:
Sorry if I caught some of you on the rebound.  I had a major very painful cramp today.  I was explaining it to a photographer friend via chat who I have many times given hours of sympathy for her illness, and after she was giving me some wrong advice about it that I objected to, she wrote "Ok.  Enjoy your cramp."
I'm sorry I barked at you.  I do like well-written English.

You do know that you're using a split infinitive, in the third sentence above, don't you?

Besides which, it's possible for something to be both famous and infamous.  Depending on context and point of view. 

cf. Michael Jackson.

Monito -- Alan wrote:
The 1D3 is not a full frame camera.

what?

Monito -- Alan wrote:
The 1D3 is not a full frame camera.

Brian T Rickey wrote:
what?

What part of "The 1D3 is not a full frame camera" do you not understand?

It is a 1.3 crop camera.

This is photography, a technical art, so details make a difference.