A Canon DSLR First Coming to EOS 5D Mark IV [CR2]

[ahsanford]

Curious about a pano mode... Is there any major upside to a handheld pano mode that does the stitching onboard for you? (Do any SLRs do this today?)

Doesn't strike me as a 5D-level needs this sort of feature, but it's a wonderful parlour trick on an iPhone.

- A

 

[StudentOfLight]

Security feature: Retinal scanner

 

[ahsanford]

Yeh, the fact they leak it as a "DSLR first" feature does suggest that it is something being imported from MILC or medium format.

Maybe something like Hasselblad TrueFocus feature, which allows subject focus & recomposition?

Or compatibility with brand spanking new leaf-shutter lenses that allow 1/2000s flash sync?

(That was a complete lark on my part -- I have no idea if that's even possible unless the focal plane shutter is already open... Someone who actually knows MF gear please educate me on this.)

- A

 

[StudentOfLight]

...
Perfection panorama mode

Pulitzer prize mode?

LoL, I'm just imagining someone <Rock>ing that P-P-mode <well>

 

[RGF]

1. hybrid viewfinder

2. bring back eye control

3. voice recognition (a la Siri)

4. wireless (blue tooth) interface to your smart phone

5. Focus stacking mode

 

[DslmNut]

Needs to be something that other Makers can have too (according to the article) that no current DSLR has.
"source was unsure if any other manufacturer has or will have the same feature in one of their cameras"
The guesses would be:


1. Electronic Shutter / no lag silent tap-n-shoot
2. IBIS with dual abilities like the Panasonic GX80/GX85

If this source is not aware of what is out there already and basically "camera blind", the guesses could be much more simple:

1. CFast card slot
2. Articulating screen (many pro level photographers have never picked up a prosumer body)
3. Unlimited video recording time

 

[KeithBreazeal]

Built in LED fill flash

 

[fallsong]

16

 

[slclick]

I'd love floating Live View focus point selection

 

[ashmadux]

AUTOMATIC LENS CALIBRATION (sorry Nikon, yours is incomplete)

All caps because Afma tuning absolutely sucks and the madness needs to stop.

 

[-pekr-]

- Integrated fan to cool-down when shooting an hour of 4K video in one go ...
- Integrated Pokemon Go, for an amusement, during the outdoor on-location shoots

Well, other than that, it might be a detachable LCD screen, but not sure it would be useful ...

 

[AUGS]

Single Shot Dual ISO?
A first "for" Canon? Yes, but previously done by ML on Canon.
Other manufacturers? Not that we know of.
Possible, it would be interesting, but unlikely.

Edit:
I suppose this could be construed as RAW HDR?

 

[rfdesigner]

A few ideas I've had that might be nice.

a setting for DoF (in feet or meters), then the aperture varies to try and achieve this for different focus distances & zoom... ideal for avoiding overly thin DoF vs insufficient background seperation for decent portaits of moving subjects (i.e. kids at weddings)

variable global sensor reset release: allows either rows or columns in sensor to start imaging sequentially, effectively creating a built in graduated sensitivity either horizontally or vertically. could come in handy with the 11-24

on sensor pixel binning (problematic for bayer matrix), for super sensitivity at a lower resolution.

FLIR connected to EVF or even on the rear screen to help wildlife photogs spot well camoflaged targets.

dark frame removal by using a single long frame taken well before use, then a minimum entropy algorithum (or similar) used to scale the frame to the image frame for ultimate correction, rather than the very basic method used right now.. could afford to be left on all the time then, and adds minimal random noise to all but the longest images.

maybe a scintillator plug in and a new range of X-Ray lenses!!.. just becasue it would be cool!

a built in accelerometer linked to software for automatic video anti jitter in camera.

of course we all expect ETTR, focus peaking, trap focus and so on, after all ML's had them for some time now.

 

[Deleted member 7828]

Automatic focus calibration would be a nice touch. But still not enough to warrant an upgrade if other features are not compelling...

 

[ranplett]

An integrated cooling fan, heat sink, and vent ports isolated from the rest of the critical electronics to maintain some level of weather sealing would be really useful for those of us who shoot a lot. As the cameras progress, thermal issues tend to cause a lot of limitations. I can see a cooling system eventually being mandatory, especially if shooting at high frame rates or high pixel count like 150-250 MP. Canon has been venting a lot of video cams lately, so they may have learned a thing or two about heat dissipation on a smaller scale. Also, a cooling system could set DSLRs apart from mirrorless and sway some videographers in their favour. DSLRs can afford the space and battery power to include it.

 

[KeithBreazeal]

Dedicated port for lens focus controls(video)
Auto lens/body focus calibration
IS coupled to subject tracking for panning(perfect pan)
Bracketed shutter speeds(selectable) for panning shots in burst mode. ISO changes instead of aperture.
Software based tilt/shift

 

[KeithBreazeal]

- electronic global shutter
- dust removal that actually removes dust
- DNG raw files
- USB socket charging

USB charging port makes perfect sense

 

[AvTvM]

Canon to bring back Eye Control AF ... but in a 2016 Mk. II version! 8)

AF point selection in viewfinder automatically follows eye/pupil of photographer. No fiddling with AF-field selector. The most simple, direct, intuitive user interface. Canon had it on some analogue SLRs, but not onany DSLR.

It is the one feature that might make me reconsider my decision to not buy 5D4 or any other mirrorslapper ...

For those of you not familiar with ECF, this is how our trusted source KR describes it:
http://www.kenrockwell.com/canon/film-bodies/eos-3.htm
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The EOS 3 stands out because of its extraordinary autofocus system, which clairvoyantly reads your mind to know exactly which of its sea of 45 AF sensors to use for each shot. The EOS 3's AF system is so much faster and easier to use and to set than anything available today.

When I first picked it up, I was astonished at how it just knew where I wanted it to focus, without me having to to do anything. No matter if I wanted to focus on the obvious part of an image, or a subtle, low-contrast item off to the side, the EOS 3 somehow just knew, and magically used the correct AF sensor every time.

Then I realized that it has Eye Controlled Focus, a name which doesn't do this system justice. It should be called "mind-controlled autofocus," since you don't have to do anything to control the AF system other than just shoot. The AF system is constantly looking at your eye, and already knows where you're looking when you press the shutter, so without you even having to think, the EOS 3 already knows where it needs to focus, and it just does.

The EOS 3's AF system is far ahead of today's cameras, which no longer use this expensive system. With newer cameras, we again have to slave through dicking around with knobs and dials to choose AF points, something the EOS 3 does all by itself by magic.

If for some reason you dislike the magic mind-reading AF system, it's easy to set back to old-fashioned manual AF point selection, or also can be set to auto AF point selection, which works as well as the same non-mind-reading modes of today's cameras.
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[grainier]

My next camera will show up on my local wireless network as a simple storage drive. Right out of the box without any additional apps.

 

[Tangent]

Another Vote for histogram in OVF [CR2]

A lot of good suggestions but I think the feature in question is histogram in the OVF, as a few folks have already mentioned. It will be very useful methinks. But I like that ECF idea, and remember the Elan 7E fondly.

We'll see soon!