Rumor: Canon TSi/500D and Canon 1Ds Mark IV DSLR cameras by February

There is a rumor around the net that Canon is going to release 2 new professional DSLR camera, Canon 1Ds Mark IV and Canon TSi/500D.

Here are the supposed specifications of the Canon 1Ds Mark IV camera. I found this rumor on “Photography Bay”.

• CMOS Image sensor with a size of 36×24mm
• 21 megapixels
• ISO 25-12800 expandable to ISO 10, 25600, 51200 (Awesome if it can be lowered to ISO 10, no ND filters anymore)
• 69-point AF EAC technology (do not know what this technology is) (TTL-AREA-SIR II AF)
• Flash Sync Mode: 1 / 4000 ESR (X high-speed flash sync?)
• USB2.0 and external HD transmission
• 4 to 3 and 16 to 9 ratios
• HDMI terminal. External monitor may display LV
• Continuous rate of 6.8 per second
• 2 DIGIC 4 processing chips
• 24fps and 30fps 2 kind of video mode

And about Canon TSi/500D there aren’t any specifications out there, although there is a bigger chance that this is true, than the 1Ds Mark IV.

Update: Thanks to Dave G. here are the rumored specs of the  Canon TSi/500d:

• 15.1 Megapixels
• ISO: 100-3200
• Image procesor: DIGIC IV
• LCD: 3″ VGA LCD
• Crop: 1.6x
• FPS: 3 raw/3jpg
• AF: 9 Point AF
• AF: Face Detection
• LiveView
• Movie Mode (No AF)

Also this was wrote on Pixel multiverse.

We will see somewhere in February if it’s just a rumor.

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4 Ways To Keep Your Photographs Safe and Backed Up.

Photo by chadh

The worst nightmare of a photographer worst than get his equipment stolen, it’s to lose his photographs. Being in digitized era the risks of losing you photographs and even documents, it’s higher than in the film era. There are a bunch of risks, from accidental deletion to hardware failure, file corruption and the list goes on.
Losing a photograph it’s worst than loosing something you created, which can be recreated the only thing you’re going to lose it’s time. But a photograph, you cannot go back in time and nail the exact same shot (I also consider that a photograph is unique, there aren’t two photos that loo the same even if there where shot at the same time).
So I will try to give you some advices on how to protect your precious photographs.

1. Always backup your photos on a DVD.

Every time you copy you photograph from your camera to your hard drive the first this you have to remember to do is to back  up onto a DVD or CD. There are so cheap compared to how much trouble can get you out from.

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