This camera has top-tier image quality in a polished, compact package well-suited to travel. Those upgrading from a 5D II or 7D may prefer the sharp response and focusing performance of the 5D III. Buyers without an investment in the Canon system may find Nikon’s D600 a better value.I’ve finally had enough of a hands-on with this camera to draw some conclusions about it. My main body is a 5D II and I’ve owned or used almost all of Canon’s crop bodies.HANDLING AND NEW FEATURES:Build quality on
Update: With the release of the T4i, this review needs a short addendum, which I will add to the end.The newest addition to Canon’s XXD line might initially seem like a minor downgrade to the previous XXD cameras, but several new capabilities actually help make this a nice, well-featured camera that will appeal to many people who don’t get caught up in whether or not this is a better camera than it’s predecessor. Canon certainly made this camera for the price point and was careful to add just
I received my SX260 last Wednesday and have taken about 700 shots and a few quick 5 minute video. Without writing a novel, here are the high/low points of this unit. In addition to this unit, I also purchased a couple of aftermarket batteries (and after market A/C adapters for about $5.00 each) for about $5.00 each and the batteries work fine. With the battery (original and aftermarket) I was able to get over 300 shots (50% flash) with zooming and playback and the battery meter still showed a
I didn’t rush to make a review of this camera, as I wanted to really put it through it’s paces first. I won’t try to list every feature or go over every bullet point (the above description does a fine job), but instead try to go over a few things which make a big difference to me as a 5D Mark II owner. For some background, I bought an original 5D in 2007, a 5DII in 2008 and have been working with these bodies ever since then. I also have experience with all of the Canon 1-series up through
Many of these TVs don’t have a Samsung panel (the screen/the part that has/makes the image!)! I cannot believe this has not been mentioned. It makes a SUBSTANTIAL difference, because some panels they use should be in TV’s that cost $100 less.Can you imagine buying a car because you know its manufacturer uses great, reliable engines, only to find out that they use completely different engines without telling you, all of which are of lower quality? Samsung does this with their TVs, and som
As an Interior Designer myself, I may have too many design related books (at last count over 200). Designers At Home, will be one book of the books I pick up to read and review over and over again. For me the author has created an easy format in which I can gain inspiration and quickly feel connected with the 50 designers featured in this new release. The short features on these tops designers allows access to their personal style as well as their personal thoughts on what design is to each
This book is almost too awesome for me to put into words. I’ve long been a fan of the Legend of Zelda. It is not only my personal favorite video game series, but arguably the greatest series in video gaming, period. When this book released in Japan for Zelda’s 25 year anniversary, many hoped it would get translated and come to the States. Thankfully, our wish has been granted. This book is about as high-quality as they come. The opening letter from Shigeru Miyamoto sets a wonderful, celebrato
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Why am I not excited about Pacific Rim ? I’m mostly a fan of Guillermo del Toro ‘s work, particularly the superb Pan’s Labyrinth , but the three teaser clips that have been released for the filmmaker’s hotly anticipated mechs-vs-monsters summer sci-fi film have all left me cold. Part of the problem is that they’re all virtually the same. The new international TV spot, for instance, is a condensed retread of the earlier trailers, and its brevity draws attention to what I think may be the film’s biggest weakness: a lame monster. Yes, the giant human-piloted Jaeger mechs are impressive — even if they defy science and physics — but their enemies, which are called Kaiju , Japanese for “strange beast,” don’t look the fearsome, formidable part they’re supposed to play in the picture. (If you’re okay with spoilers, this review of the Pacific Rim script indicates that the Kaiju overwhelm the Jaegers.) Clearly, del Toro is paying homage to the Japanese Toho Studios kaiju films of the 1950s, ’60s and beyond — the Godzilla franchise being the most well known of them. The problem is, the creature in the Pacific Rim looks like it came directly from the set of one of those hokey movies and didn’t stop by the visual effects department to get a rad new upgrade. Remember, Gamera , the amusing flying turtle (which was not a Toho creation)? If you took the body of that ’60s-era monster and grafted the head of Roland Emmerich’s 1998 Godzilla onto it — not a movie that any filmmaker should be referencing — then you’d get a creature similar to the one you see in the photo above and trailer below. Not-So-Scary Monster Perhaps del Toro is keeping more fearsome creatures under wraps. The Kaiju apparently hail from another universe — a kind of interstellar Monster Island — so conceptually there could be more than one species. I hope so. If the creature in the teasers is all we get, then Pacific Rim could suffer from a real tension deficit. One other thing: It’s time to give Idris Elba’s “Today, we are canceling the apocalypse!” speech a rest. It was rousing the first 10 times I heard it — in January. Three months later, it’s ripe to be satirized, and the movie isn’t out until July 12. What do you think? More on Pacific Rim : ‘Pacific Rim’ Vs. Real World Physics: Giant Robots, Galileo, And The Square Cube Law WATCH: Do The Jaeger Meisters In New ‘Pacific Rim’ Trailer Defy Logic? [ Insight: Movies ] Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.
Is Disney still suffering from Shrek envy? Over the last two days the blogosphere has generated unconfirmed reports that the House of Mouse is developing a Yoda movie, as part of its Star Wars franchise reboot, and that Marvel Studios , which is owned by Disney, is planning a standalone Hulk movie that would tie together The Avengers 2 and 3 movies. Disney’s Yoda Movie The Yoda report, which is a little vague on details, was posted by Ain’t It Cool News on Monday. The story doesn’t indicate whether the chartreuse Jedi Master will be the focus of J.J. Abrams ‘ Star Wars Episode 7, but I agree with IndieWire ‘s assessment that, if this report stands up, the Yoda movie will probably complement Abrams’ picture and pave the way for other Star Wars movies built around a single character. (AICN claims there’s even a Jabba The Hutt idea out there, which sounds preposterous — and, um, slow-moving, plot-wise — but maybe fan favorite, Boba Fett, can finally become the star he should have become decades ago.) If Disney’s Star Wars strategy is indeed to develop movies built around key canon characters that link to Episode 7 and upward, it wouldn’t be all that different from the game plan that Marvel Studios has been working since around 2008. The comic book publisher’s movie arm started with standalone movies — Iron Man , Captain American , Thor — then had those characters converge for the extremely lucrative first Avengers movie. Given the richness of the Star Wars universe that George Lucas created, the inverse could work just as well — or, perhaps, better — if Abrams and Disney introduce a new ensemble of Force and Dark Side characters, instead of simply re-imagining the old movies. That said, if Yoda — and not his Force ghost — is going to be involved in Episode 7 , that would mean the story would have to be set before Return of the Jedi , in which the green sage died at the ripe age of 900. Marvel’s Plans For A Hulk Movie As for the other green superhero, Latino Review — which has scored some big Marvel scoops over the last few months — is reporting that either in the third act or post-credits scene of The Avengers 2 , the Hulk will be shot into space by the Illuminati, the secret organization of Marvel superheroes that includes Iron Man and Doctor Strange , after the green giant is deemed too dangerous to remain on Earth. This will set up the premise for the Hulk’s standalone movie , and if you don’t like spoilers, stop reading now. Latino Review claims the plot of that movie will be based on Greg Pak’s 2006 Planet Hulk comic’s storyline. To make a long story short, after Hulk smashes a lot of extraterrestrial ass, he’ll put together an army and return to Earth good and pissed off, thereby setting the scene for Avengers 3 , which the site claims will be based on Pak’s 2007 Planet Hulk follow-up, World War Hulk . Marvel fans are all worked up about this, but I remain skeptical about the Hulk’s promise as a standalone character. Audiences enjoyed him in The Avengers , because Hulk provided comic relief. The problem is, there’s no art to his anger, and, as we saw with the first two Hulk movies, scenes of a giant green brute smashing shit becomes pretty tedious pretty quickly. At least Yoda talks funny. [ Ain’t It Cool News , Latino Review , IndieWire ]
