Canon EOS-1V details

["Willem-Jan Markerink" <w.j.markerink@xxxxx>]

While peeking through some press-info documentation for the 1V, I
saw a few details not mentioned before:
(for IR-listers, only the last two comments are relevant)

- the cap for the N3 remote socket is a hinged/rubber(?) unit, attached 
to the body. This means no more lost caps for that one!
(I don't think the EOS-3 had this feature, did it?....nor the 
1X & DCS2000 that went ahead in the T3->N3 transformation)

[also interesting is the fact that the N3 cable plugs are 90-degree 
offset, but that is old news for those familiar with the 3]

- the viewfinder blind/shutter is a lovely complex/overengineered 
design: by pulling the lever on the top-right of the viewfinder, the 
rear-most lens in the viewfinder will move forward, and a shutter 
will appear from the bottom. This way the viewfinder could be kept as 
short as possible (while maintaining eye relief).

- overal noise has been reduced to 76dB in single-frame shooting, 2dB 
less than the 3, 4dB less than the 1n. In continuous-mode, it is 
79dB, 8dB less than the 3 (but same as 1n).

- there is indeed a dateback, DB-E2, which still contains a rear
thumb-wheel (in contrast to the old DB-E1). But, as expected, only
imprinting silly things like year/month/day....;-((
Imagine the same back, but then able to tap into the data available 
for electronic readout....that's what true data (not date) imprinting 
is all about....

- IR-compatibility:
"....by employing two noteworthy innovations: a new condenser optics 
system, which detects light at the border of the film's picture area 
(? WJ), and a new masking material."

- IR-related comment:
The normal back seems to have a rectangle cut-out in the film 
pressure plate....I hope Canon is aware that such cut-outs have a 
high risk of showing up on Kodak HIE....HIE relies partly on 
reflection off the pressure plate....unless that cut-out is 
outside the direct image area (it could be, but it's hard to check on 
the only picture I saw of that pressure plate (a slide)).
That's why databacks should imprint between frames too, not in-frames 
(or at least optional)....




--                 
Bye,

Willem-Jan Markerink


      The desire to understand 
is sometimes far less intelligent than
     the inability to understand


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