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Right. Most advances Canon has made in SLRs (say, the AF upgrades the comment you are replying to above mentions) could be easily 'backported' to a film camera:
by sjm-lbm 8y ago
Right. Most advances Canon has made in SLRs (say, the AF upgrades the comment you are replying to above mentions) could be easily 'backported' to a film camera: in a real SLR, the sensor isn't exposed to light until the picture is ready to be taken and focus/exposure settings have already been decided, so it's not like those features rely on the digital image sensor in any way.
The reason why Canon doesn't make a film SLR that includes the features that bring their cameras ahead of Nikon is because they don't think enough people will want to pay for them. And that's probably right.
- jacquesm 8y agoThe reason why AF for film is hard is because AF tends to move around the point of best focus and moving a lens is terribly slow compared to the inter-frame time. So you simply don't have the time to figure out what the ideal focus is while shooting film, especially not if camera and/or subject are moving, which is sort of the whole reason for shooting video to begin with.
- CarVac 8y agoFilm still cameras, not film cinema cameras.
- jacquesm 8y agoAh sorry. That's a Dutchism, 'film' here is moving.
- kristoffer 8y agoYou’re confusing film and video. Anyway (D)SLR use phase detect autofocus in which you don’t have to figure out much at all. Mirrorless is another thing.