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Canon legal response

Posted Jan 14, 2013 17:38 UTC (Mon) by n8willis (editor, #43041)
In reply to: Canon legal response by yodermk
Parent article: Testing Magic Lantern 2.3

The assertion that the 1DX and 1DC are physically identical is rumor, though. It originated from a trade show discussion as I understand it; thus far no one has actually gotten a hold of a 1DC to do a teardown or even take detailed pictures of the internals. CanonRumors got a peek inside and said they were different. Same sensor, yes, but different in other respects visible to the unaided eye. For exactly what, I suppose we'll have to wait and see -- whether busing 4X the data off of the sensor onto storage requires a little reconfiguration or a lot is the issue, I guess. Canon's certainly not shy about putting out scads of different camera bodies, though; I'd be a little surprised if they exercised the restraint to not do so in this instance.

But that's all a tangent anyway....

Nate

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Canon legal response

Posted Jan 14, 2013 19:04 UTC (Mon) by harold (guest, #44046) [Link]

Canon Rumours says the biggest change is the heat sink inside the camera to keep the sensor circuitry cool during 4K video operation.

Canon legal response

Posted Jan 15, 2013 15:28 UTC (Tue) by n8willis (editor, #43041) [Link]

But CR didn't get to inspect (or much less teardown) the hardware; they only said that they could see the heatsink difference (and along with other unidentified changes) after being shown the camera by a Canon rep. There is a lot of room for different circuitry changes that are not visible or obvious to the unaided eye; I don't know how many "initial reports" I've read about Android devices that turn out to be wrong months later about important things like whether or not there is a Bluetooth chip or if the USB charging port is power-only or has data lines.

You just don't know until you can break it into little pieces with your own two hands. Doubly so for hardware that's still unreleased.
Nate