Happy New Year! Hope you all managed to take a break over Christmas and are looking forward to an exciting 2010…I know we are!
In 2009, Canon EOS had its most exciting and successful year yet and you can expect this to continue. This year, we’ll deliver new innovative products, continue to build on the popular World of EOS site and provide you with plenty more online digital SLR video tutorials.
Hope you’re all enjoying the EOS 1wall challenges. Congratulations to Naomi Frost for winning the Judge’s Choice award and to dpetranker for winning the People’s Choice award for the ‘motion’ challenge. Check out this post to see the winning images and comments from judge Graham Monro.
And thanks to everyone who’s entered the latest ‘in motion’ challenge – I look forward to seeing the finalists selected by judge, Mark Horsburgh – these will be announced on January 22.
We’ve had some great reviews lately of the EOS 7D digital SLR which was launched in October last year. To read these, check out the latest editions of Camera and ProPhoto magazine, as well as Margaret Brown’s review on PhotoReview.
I think Paul Burrows from Camera and ProPhoto magazine sums up the camera perfectly... and of course I’m not biased:
“It is an exceedingly comfortable camera to handle, intuitive in its operation and, of course, immensely capable. As a result it goes straight to the top of the ‘APS-C’ class. Ah, Canon, you’ve done it again!”
I also thought I’d share a cool video shot on the EOS 1D Mark IV that I came across online – http://vimeo.com/8324034. Shot in Prague, the clip showcases the impressive low-light capabilities of the camera. It’s really fantastic, so I recommend you check it out.
Oh, and some other quirky EOS news I came across was this article on Gizmodo talking about how a Canon EOS 400D digital SLR was dropped from a height of 900m while the photographer was skydiving, and amazingly it’s still working! We always tell you our cameras are durable, don’t we!
Hope you all have a great start to your year!
Cheers,
Chris