Interesting. I'm pretty sure I don't know anyone interested in a 3D TV set. I wonder where the 58% comes from. Also, until there's a fair bit more 3D content, I don't really see that 58% turning into purchases.

Has a film been made yet where one could really argue that 3D is an essential part of the viewing experience? Has there even been a good 3D film made (in recent times) other than _Up_?

I may be a curmudgeon, since I avoid 3D in the theaters as well, but I think @Carac is right—this smells like some serious Kool-Aid drinking.

4 GB. It just means that for HD movies you just need to compress the hell out of it or break it into smaller chunks (or both).

If they could ever get the 645 out, that would give them an edge. On the other hand, if they wait too long, Nikon will own the prosumer and low-end pro medium format medium.

It's definitely frustrating to watch Pentax fail to recapture their former standing.

Wouldn't TCCoBB count as more of a Criterion release than a Paramount release (or at least a Criterion/Paramount release)? The picture there even has the Criterion logo on it.

Just nit-picking.

The logo looks a lot like the Four-thirds logo with a little added perspective.

Well, Jannard has a lot of money and no investors to answer to, so unless he wants RED to get bought out, they won't get bought out.

We shouldn't attempt to redefine HD at this point. HD is HD. What might help is some sort of certification mechanism that spells out the quality of something. Problem is, it's too easy to end up with arbitrary metrics that rule out a lot of good video and let in a lot of bad, and if it's not based on clear metrics, then it's too easy to end up with something like THX, which is opaque and unreliable.

There was a similar sort of trouble back when DVDs were being sourced from VHS and poor-quality laserdisc transfers (some of which were THX approved, I believe). The only resolution for this, really, is for the HD content distributors to feel like their reputation depends on the reliability of product quality, and given how hard it is for so many to distinguish HD and SD, this is not going to be an easy process, except when dealing with physical media (e.g., Blu-Ray) and maybe download providers.

Why would Canon use a 12-megapixel sensor to produce a 1080p video camera?

Anyways, they'll have to work on the skew issues before this would be a viable video camera for most. Having video on a DSLR is a nice, bonus feature, but the rolling shutter issues are much too severe for it to be viable as the basis for a real video camera.

On the other hand, if they really are working on a dual-purpose video/still sensor, that'd be another matter altogether, but I'd have to imagine Canon's a ways away from having anything like that out on the market.

To work, a lens basically just has to sit a certain distance (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flange_focal_distance) from the sensor without letting any extraneous light in. You can buy adapters (or make your own) to mount a Nikon lens on a Canon camera, although you lose auto-focus and aperture control unless you can convert the proprietary signals somehow.

Note that because the flange distance of the Canon EF mount is so much shorter than Nikon F mount, you can't mount a Canon lens on a Nikon without using an additional piece of glass between the lens and the sensor (reducing quality), or ending up with the effect of using an extension tube, which slows the lens down and often eliminates your ability to focus on distant objects (but gives you macro).

Price here is the key. If this thing is going to be >$15K, then it's hard to imagine it having much market impact outside of existing Pentax 645 users that have a lot of lens investment already. If, on the other hand, it becomes the first MF DSLR to sell for under $10K (at, say, $6K), then you have a lot of high-end enthusiasts with money to burn that would want to upgrade to this instead of a 1Ds or D3.

It does seem like a year ago would have been a better time to have this lined up, rather than post-economic collapse, but how could they have known?