ill hold judgement until after the nikon release. I almost bought canon when i started photography a year ago, but im now deeply attached to my d7000. Nikon for life!
Canon EOS 1D X
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Posted 1 year ago #
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Michael DeRose said:
ill hold judgement until after the nikon release. I almost bought canon when i started photography a year ago, but im now deeply attached to my d7000. Nikon for life!.
well saidswapped a Canon F1 for a Pentax K1000 and 4 Pentax lenses, Vivitar 283, flash bracket and series I zoom. looking back, mybe it was not a good deal, but money was hard in those days and I thought the extra lenses was a good deal. K1000 ended being a fantastic learing tool.
after ME and ME super went to a Nikon F3
as MichaelDeRose said: that made me into a Nikon follower who cannot ever see himsef changing. thoses lenses, those lenses, once you use them you are hooked.
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Not to mention that CAT5e cables (CAT6 is too stiff) can be much longer than a thunderbolt cable. The cable being too short was always one of the biggest complaints I've heard from tethered shooters stuck with USB2 cables.
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Thunderbolt cable 6' = $50
Cat5e/6 100'= $16Like adamz said, the wireless possibilities that you can use easily with Ethernet connections are abundant. The only issue I really have with Thunderbolt is that nothing has or uses it except for a very few devices. I have the same feeling with HDMI connections with cameras, I never have hooked a camera up to a TV or needed to for any reason.
Getting Wifi-N in cameras (like Canon's add on) would be much more beneficial in my mind.
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NikoDoby said:
Full frame Nikons are not made in Thailand. Flooding there would affect a D300 DX replacement. It's my understanding that much if not all of Nikon's Pro production has (or is) being moved to China and /or Malaysia. I don't think the Thai plant has the capacity to run both a DX and FX assembly line.Hey Niko I think that the flooding effects the entire Nikon product line although I admit sort of indirectly because your right Thailand is the principle site for DX gear. However, a lot of raw materials for other items such as the magnesium alloy bodies are in Thailand and when one type of product is strained for materials it puts a strain on the rest of the other products as well. The flooding is so extensive that I'm sure it will delay opperations to the point that any immediate releases set for this month or next will be delayed again. Not a good year for Nikon's bottom line, but they are still recording decent profits. Hopefully next year things will run smoothly.
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the ethernet thing is brilliant.
its 100gbit/s these days (the speed thunderbolt is expected to reach within the next TEN years), all computers have an ethernet connection, maybe not a 100g one, but at least a 10g.
many of us already have have ethernet hub (routers).
i believe canon is pointing out the stupidity of usb 3 and thunderbolt. why develop inferior, expensive new technologies, when the solutions already exists, and are already installed on every pc around the world ?
this is the technical spec of a new macbook pro connections, copied from the mac website :
MagSafe power port
Gigabit Ethernet port
FireWire 800 port (up to 800 Mbps)
Three USB 2.0 ports (up to 480 Mbps) (i think this is a mistake, it only has 2 usb ports)
Thunderbolt port (up to 10 Gbps)
Audio line in
Audio line out
ExpressCard/34 slot
Kensington lock slotusb 3 and thunderbolt are just the "new thing", ill take the 100gbs ethernet any day, thanks very much.
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@mikenothing - cat 6 gives You max 10GBASE-T connection and most of the network card support 1GBASE-T; 100GBASE-T can run only over fiber channel = too pricey
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@mikenothing: Sorry, I have to pull you up there. According the Canon info, the EOS-1D X has a 1000Base-T ethernet port - that's 1Gbs NOT 100Gbs or even 10Gbs.
Thunderbolt currently runs at 20Gbs Bi-directional which is 20x the throughput (headline figure only) of the ethernet port (Full duplex) on the EOS. I could also go into why Thunderbolt will have a much lower latency (which also affects performance) than a standard ethernet port, but that's for another time...
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I guess I'm old enough to remember all the different cable connections that have come and gone and I wouldn't want to spend $7000 for a camera with an RJ11 phone jack even if it was compatible with my acoustic modem ;-)
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@niko - it's actually rj45 not rj11:)
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NikoDoby said:
I guess I'm old enough to remember all the different cable connections that have come and gone and I wouldn't want to spend $7000 for a camera with an RJ11 phone jack even if it was compatible with my acoustic modem ;-)Haha, at the old place I dormed at on campus, they used to give us internet through a phone jack. But since we don't have modems anymore, our campus actually sold a special cable that had an ethernet plug at the other end.
This was in the fall of 2008 to spring of 2009. Needless to say, I got the heck out of there as quickly as possible.
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1992 - college they didnt have internet in college... they had weird digital lines, so to get things to work with internet providers (they did exist before web browsers) you had to buy a digital to analog converter so your modem could convert analog to digital. :)
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NikoDoby said:
I guess I'm old enough to remember all the different cable connections that have come and gone and I wouldn't want to spend $7000 for a camera with an RJ11 phone jack even if it was compatible with my acoustic modem ;-)I'm with you. Back in the "blazing fast" days of 800 baud.
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Can the 1DX make long distance calls if you plug it into a phone jack because that would totally be an iphone killer!
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mirtos said:
I'm with you. Back in the "blazing fast" days of 800 baud.NikoDoby said:
I guess I'm old enough to remember all the different cable connections that have come and gone and I wouldn't want to spend $7000 for a camera with an RJ11 phone jack even if it was compatible with my acoustic modem ;-)junior member then member then senior member then preferred member
now a new grouping: ancient members
Nikodoby profile: used to be terminator, used to be moderator now " one of the ancients"
you too mirtos
now back on topic
the only thing I like about Canon is that there is so much cheap[sorry that should read low price] used equipment as opposed to Nikon that holds its price because of better quality.
I can take it, let the war begin.
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xeromatt said:
Here are are findings when putting the Nikon D4 in a head to head with the Canon 1DXlink to the review http://xerodigital.ca/blog/
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