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Canon Professional Network

Craig April 20th, 2007

Canon have remade and relaunched Canon Professional Services under a new name - Canon Professional Network (CPN). With interviews, technical details, news, podcasts, tutorials and more, CPN’s mission is to be a source of inspiration, education and motivation for the professional photographer.

From their “about” page.

 

“Welcome to Canon Professional Network (CPN), Canon Europe’s new professional photographic website. CPN replaces the Canon Professional Services (CPS) site.

The aim of CPN is simple: to be a source of inspiration, education and motivation for the professional photographer and the aspiring photographic enthusiast. To achieve this we have teamed up with some of the very best professionals and experts from both inside and outside the photographic world.

CPN features and honours those professionals that use Canon equipment in so many exciting ways, creating images that reflect and define the world in which we live. They, along with our team of independent writers, explore the opportunities of the ever-changing and creative digital environment.

Over the past year, our CPS teams across Europe have been busy supporting professional photographers at major international events. CPN has been born out of listening to you at these and other events – to your needs, your wishes and your passion for photography.

We look forward to you being a big part of the site and contributing your images, comments and ideas.

Our independent editorial team, lead by editor Mike Stanton, will endeavour to reflect your wishes in the ever-growing content that is planned for the web site. The opinions presented within this site are those of the authors and not neccessarily those of Canon. We aim to provide an independent viewpoint about our products and their uses.

We hope you will enjoy this site and continue to return as new content is frequently added. Here we launch with just a flavour of what is to come.”

It looks to be a very useful resource for photographers who use Canon equipment.

Canon @ PMA 2007

Craig February 27th, 2007

For months the internet has been flooded with rumours of what Canon will introduce for PMA 2007. Top of everyones wishlist seemed to be an upgrade to the Canon EOS 5D, or the replacement of the EOS30D, generally assumed to be a 40D. The Canon Hong Kong website even briefly showed a page for a 40D, but with no actual information about it, just the name.

On February 21st, Canon issued a press release that brought some suprises. No announcements about a 5D or 30D replacement were included. What they did announce however, was the EOS 1D Mark III, a 10.1 megapixel DSLR that will replace the EOS 1D MarkII N. Sporting dual “Digic III” processors and capable of 10 frames per second in a burst of 30 RAW or 110 large JPEG, the EOS 1D Mark III is the worlds fastest DSLR and is expected to be available in spring 2007.

New features in the EOS 1D Mark III include a 3″ live view LCD (previously unavailable on any DSLR), Canon’s EOS Integrated Cleaning System, a shutter upgrade of 50% to 300 000 actuations, the ability to shoot at ISO up to 3200, with 6400 available as a custom function and a new auto focus system with 19 high precision cross-type sensors (up from 7) included in a total of 45 AF points.

To go along with the new EOS 1D Mark III, a new lens, the EF 16-35mm f2.8L II USM. Internally focusing, the lens features new coatings to reduce flare and is sealed for mositure and dust resistance.

An upgraded flash was also announced, the Speedlight 580EX II. Like the new lens, the speedlight is sealed against moisture and dust, and comes new features including a metal hot shoe, external meter for non-TTL flash exposure control and a PC socket.

Finally, two other accesories for the EOS 1D Mark III were introduced. The Wireless File Transmitter WFT-E2 allowing fast wireless transmission and the Original Data Security Kit OSK-E3 for image verification and encryption security.

In digicam news, Canon announced 8 new models - Powershot TX1, Digital ELPH SD1000 and SD750, and Powershot A450, A460, A550, A560 and A570IS.

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