arthurking83
26-10-2019, 12:56am
Interesting sub news to the latest from Canon.
New D1X mkIII announced, and hidden in the specs, which usually announce 20fps, and full frame AF coverage and whatnot.
What caught my eye tho(all the rest is meaningless dribble) was the new HEIF image format.
This is something that should ahve replaced jpg quite a while ago .. and really to initiate this replacement regime, it's up to the manufacturers to start doing so.
Why cameras still have the ability to shoot TIFF format, is beyond my ability to understand!
if you look into the raw format, 99% of them are based on a more data intensive type of tif anyhow, so to have the option to shoot in a more efficient streamlined tif format(ie. raw) and also tif in all it's monumentally huge glory, with no additional benefit .. makes no sense.
So jpg when compactness and speed was required, made sense. But jpg is very old, and far better mopre modern alternatives have existed for a long time now.
.. enter HEIF. Higher quality, small file sizes .. why has it taken so long .. and why haven't the others done so yet?
Also, makes sense that a camera of the pro sports shooter calibre, leading up to the Olympics would be one of the first to offer it as an option.
Getting your images first to the news outlets over wireless transfers is one of those vital specs(apparently) .. HEIF makes sense viewed from this context.
So very likely asked for by pro sport/news Canon customers.
Wonder if Nikon will do so in their D6 too.
Sony haven't announced it in the A9, although, I do like the feature of adding voice notes on the A9, and having their software convert those notes to keywording/tagging text too(as long as it works properly)
So two bugbears about cameras I've always wondered about.
New D1X mkIII announced, and hidden in the specs, which usually announce 20fps, and full frame AF coverage and whatnot.
What caught my eye tho(all the rest is meaningless dribble) was the new HEIF image format.
This is something that should ahve replaced jpg quite a while ago .. and really to initiate this replacement regime, it's up to the manufacturers to start doing so.
Why cameras still have the ability to shoot TIFF format, is beyond my ability to understand!
if you look into the raw format, 99% of them are based on a more data intensive type of tif anyhow, so to have the option to shoot in a more efficient streamlined tif format(ie. raw) and also tif in all it's monumentally huge glory, with no additional benefit .. makes no sense.
So jpg when compactness and speed was required, made sense. But jpg is very old, and far better mopre modern alternatives have existed for a long time now.
.. enter HEIF. Higher quality, small file sizes .. why has it taken so long .. and why haven't the others done so yet?
Also, makes sense that a camera of the pro sports shooter calibre, leading up to the Olympics would be one of the first to offer it as an option.
Getting your images first to the news outlets over wireless transfers is one of those vital specs(apparently) .. HEIF makes sense viewed from this context.
So very likely asked for by pro sport/news Canon customers.
Wonder if Nikon will do so in their D6 too.
Sony haven't announced it in the A9, although, I do like the feature of adding voice notes on the A9, and having their software convert those notes to keywording/tagging text too(as long as it works properly)
So two bugbears about cameras I've always wondered about.