Chuck Westfall Interview on future DSLRs

In PC Photo for June.

Those "liquid lenses" sound very interesting. Wavefront coding would be excellent, too, but not until it matures.

I always enjoy his interviews. He talks like a photographer who happens to be in the business.

Sounds interesting, but I'd be much more interested to hear about the replacement or upgrade to the 1Ds Mark II, 5D, Rebel line, and if Canon really does intend to go to FF except the entry level dslr. Also about the glass issues, forget liquid. I'd be happy if they can make glass without faulty design (e.g. 24-105L and 70-300IS) or one's that are more competitive in price.

Liquid glass, wireless, hydrogen fuel??? Sounds like an explosive combo to me.
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They really should make a stronger zoom that goes to 300. Sigma owns them with the 120-300 f/2.8. Heck their 100-300 f/4 owns them too. Those 70-300, 75-300's just aren't that up to par.

And probably should bring back some variation of the 200mm f/1.8. Maybe 200 f/2?

Yea, but knowing Canon, they would probably make a 100-300 f2.8L with IS. Can you imagine the price tag on that sucker??? yikes

It would interest a lot of pros. But Sigma will continue to own them as long as they don't put something good there.

But I'm happy. My Sigma 120-300 f/2.8 cost me like 1800 basically. 1800 for a 300 2.8. I mean that's a deal.

ISO 6400, now we are talking

And advanced noise control for an ISO setting that high.

Stupid acrobat PDF file keeps locking my computer up.
PDF = Program Designed to F&*^UP your computer. I have never ever gotten PDF files to work on any computer I have owned in the past 7+ years to work like they should. Piece of crap software. As much as I hate MS at least word doesn't messup anything but fonts and document format between machines. End rant.

If possible could someone please post the text.
I would really like to read it.

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ISO 25-6400...I wouldn't even complain about the noise too much...if they could compress it a wee bit and make it look more like film grain.

Should I buy a UV filter for protection on my liquid lens?

It might stop the juice running out when you lower it to the horizontal....

Better put some thread lock on to make a good seal.

I've read Chuck Westfall's comments on the old Rob Galbraith forums and have got to hand it to him. For a marketing guy he sure does know the detail behind the technical side of things. I'm sure he already knows about this board seeing this is the preeminent Canon forum. Hopefully he'll come along and post his expertise once in a while to clear up camera issues if he has the time. Maybe even take sensible board suggestions to Canon's R&D team. Mods - any chance of approaching him?

So he acknowledged that some of the Canon lenses are revealing their inadequacies when mounted on FF sensors. Anyone think this will lead to more new/updated releases of lenses (in the immediate couple of years future) than the 2 or 3 per year we currently see? I hope so if only it's a short burst to iron out the deficient lenses in the current line up.