Apple and Canon in bed together?

Sorry, Apple buying Canon would lead to even greater price increases with lesser technology. But those cameras would be pretty and so trendy!

luciddreamer wrote in post #11996107
Sorry, Apple buying Canon would lead to even greater price increases with lesser technology. But those cameras would be pretty and so trendy!

Imagine the problems since we hold our cameras with our right hands!

Ah the infamous shutter attenuation. Hold it the wrong way and you can only sync at 1/20....

Indecent Exposure wrote in post #11996151
Imagine the problems since we hold our cameras with our right hands!

When they got done it would be a touch screen to operate everything. You'd see it in the viewfinder and operate it with your nose.. No need for a right hand.

Would the offspring of Apple and Canon be an Apple Cannon? They have Potato Launchers, so why not. pewpew

Indecent Exposure wrote in post #11994882

So you're saying there's a chance!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

cptrios wrote in post #11994165
The great thing about Thunderbolt is that it's backwards-compatible (well not exactly backwards...side-backwards? Cross-backwards?) with USB. So you could have both in one port on the camera. I could be wrong there...but I'm fairly sure that'd be possible.

Not directly, but you could push pretty much anything over that port. If a company wants to build a Thunderbolt-to-USB-cable, it would certainly be possible (although the cable would need an embedded USB controller chip).

cptrios wrote in post #11993941
One far-fetched but not entirely out-of-the-question thought is that Canon could be one of Apple's potential "huge acquisitions." Apple has an enormous, enormous amount of cash-on-hand, and there are weekly rumblings as to who the targets might be (from Kodak to Adobe to freaking Sony). I'd put the odds on this at around 100,000:1.

Not going to happen.

More info on this today.... Canon is reportedly "excited" about thunderbolt. Imagine uploading footage into Final Cut at 10gigabits/sec... or for that matter, transferring photos off your camera that fast.

Methinks there will be some new CF/SD cards coming out soon (fyi, next gen SD cards are already in development that would support these transfer rates....)

Even current CF cards are capable of speeds around 3x as fast as USB2 can manage.
It's a shame that the biggest limitation in terms of transfer speed at the moment is the USB port.

Of course they could go towards USB3 (and I guess they will at some point), but I'd really still like to see an additional Thunderbold port since it's actually much more than just a faster alternative to USB.

I guess the professional video people would be glad to be able to stream 1080p to an external monitor, feed an external sound source to the camera and record high-bitrate video directly to an external storage device, all at the same time with just one cable going to the camera.

Apple is bypassing USB3. It will never be on any Apple product.

aaron.dunlap wrote in post #12001168
Apple is bypassing USB3. It will never be on any Apple product.

I don't think so. The reason is more likely to be that USB3 isn't supported by any current Intel Chipset (which is what Apple uses in their machines). The only way to integrate USB3 into an Intel system is by using a seperate, third-party controller chip. And Apple just doesn't seem to care enough about USB3 to go down that route.

But I'm 100% sure that as soon as Intel supports USB3 natively, Apple machines will support it as well. Though that might not be before 2012 because Intel doesn't care much about USB3 either.

I sure hope Apple does not buy Canon. I would hate to switch to Nikon after all these years of using Canon.

dman65 wrote in post #12004847
I sure hope Apple does not buy Canon. I would hate to switch to Nikon after all these years of using Canon.

I think your collection is safe.

You people are taking this too far. The Macbook Air has been chirped for barely being able to handle Adobe programs, yet now the iPad can handle and EDIT RAW photos?

These rumors are being taken too far. As far as Canon and Apple relationship is concerned, the main thing that will arise from any partnership is going to start with including Thunderbolt ports on Canon DSLRs.

Hey, we're just having a little fun! These are all wish-list kinds of things. Plus, I'm pretty sure nobody mentioned editing RAW photos on the iPad. (Which, by the way, it could certainly do, based on an Aperture-like system of editing smaller preview JPEGs and then applying those edits on export to the raw files or copies thereof. That'd be totally fine if all you're doing is slider editing and cropping).