Behind the scenes with Canon CPS at the Paris Games

[usern4cr]

With CCAPI (or EDSDK) and external power source, you can write any "motion trap" you like by yourself.

Or at least I did as a part of the in-house hackathon 4 years ago.

Thanks for the feedback, Kit. I didn't know of these packages from Canon. But after looking into it, I think that it would be beyond my current interest to try and make something like this work. It is something that Canon could make work quite easily since it has amazing motion detection to start with, and would just take the nod of approval by whoever makes decisions on what software features to implement there. It's too bad that they don't have a better way of interacting with all of their interested camera owners to get feedback on ways to improve their camera features.

 

[EOS 4 Life]

Funny dumb American moment: I was looking at some more recent Jeff Cable blog entries, and I was noticing the ball in his shots was completely oblong, as though there was terrible rolling shutter. He mentioned he'd been using the R1. I was horrified at how terrible the rolling shutter seemed. Took me two minutes of closely looking at shots to remember that Rugby balls aren't round.

Jeff used the RF 100-300 f/2.8.
That pretty much tells us there was RF 200-500 f/4.
The RF 100-300 f/2.8 + 1.4 Extender seems to have replaced his EF 200-400 f/4 x 1.4.