Is 10D really 2D?

[Jack_Mioff]

Shortly after the D60 was discontinued from production, many speculated what the new name and lever the replacement camera was going to be. Canon was to introduce a new digitial SLR camera and rumors filled the chat forums around the world that this camera would be the D80 or perhaps a version of the EOS 3 perhaps an EOS 3D.

I have always felt that the 10D was in a line similar to the A2 film body in the day when the 1N body was Canon's top of the line camera and those who read binary know that 10 is also 2.

Is this Canon's way of telling us where this '10D' falls into place?

Should we expect a digital camera to come out between at a level the 1D and the 10D? or the 1D and the 2D?

Is Canon basing the numbering of the camera models on binary code?

We will eventually learn what they have in their minds.

[lightandlife]

Canon's own brochure states that it is equal to or beats the Elan system. So I figure it is comparable to Elan.

Model labeling may not be decided by a single person, but by a group of people, which is constantly changing. So, there will be some inconsistency over time.

We may see 1D, 2D, 3D, and so on, instead of D1, D2, etc. in the future. I am hoping that they would make a full frame digital, equivalent to EOS 3, costing no more than $2000, and I wouldn't care what they would call it, maybe 3D?

Pentax already has a 3D (3 dimensional) camera, but I don't know how useful it is. The quality is low.

[kush]

Are you serious with that Username???

[lightandlife]

What part of it do you think is serious?
Why do you ask?

[John_T]

I always thought Light and Life was what photography was all about.

I like it. Lighten up, kush.

[justme_dc]

I think kush was talking about the orignal poster's screen name..... take a look for yourself and judge the meanings that could be taken from it...... or do you need it spelled out more plainly?

Canon's film naming system works like this EOS 1 top of line, EOS 10 Middle of the road, EOS 100 prosumer and EOS 1000 Consumer. Look at the orignal film bodies you'll see that those are the names of the orignal series.

The A2/EOS 5 name was an nod to the orignal A-1 FD mount cameras and it's EOS 5 designation put it squarely between the EOS 1 and EOS 10 cameras as it's features were right between the two.

So in closing the 10D is a Digital and vastly updated version of the EOS 10, it's not quite up to the standard of the A2/ EOS 5 in it's day. therefore it shouldn't be thought of as an A2/5 otherwise it would have been named the EOS 5D. I hope all this makes sense.

This concludes your Canon history lesson for the day. Oh, there will be a test on this later....

[CyberDyneSystems]

But if you live in the states,. half the cameras you name are ????????

We have Rebles and Elans. Makes it all a lot more confusing :)

[CyberDyneSystems]

kush wrote:
Are you serious with that Username???

Who Jack?

Honest to goodness it's true. And I know his Brothers Tick and Piss,. and Sister Edith who was a fabulous singer in her day.

[kush]

CyberDyneSystems wrote:
kush wrote:
Are you serious with that Username???

Who Jack?

Honest to goodness it's true. And I know his Brothers Tick and Piss,. and Sister Edith who was a fabulous singer in her day.


LOL!!

[kush]

lightandlife wrote:
What part of it do you think is serious?
Why do you ask?

I like "Lightandlife". Was curious about the other fella.

[Jack_Mioff]

Yes, I am serious about my name. It is French. The term which you like to relate it to isn't exactly how it is spelled. That would be jacking me off which isn't spelled like my name niether doesn't it sound alike.

Think of my name sounding like Jack Mi Ov

while you are trying to figure out how to say my name, I'll be reading these forums. Thanks for the replies.

[lightandlife]

The Bible has been translated into more than 2000 languages, I hear.

I am pretty certain that for anybody's name, at least one of these 2000 language groups would chuckle when they hear it because it seems to mean something funny.