Canon's new 16.7MP Digital SLR, with WiFi

LoudMusic writes "Canon has recently announced the EOS 1Ds Mark II, successor to their previous excellent professional cameras. What makes this one so cool is that it can network. The early review over at dpreview.com says there is an optional part that gives it both 802.11a/g and wired networking capabilities. I can see photographers shooting sporting events with a 12" Powerbook in a backpack receiving images to its 80GB drive and automatically uploading them to SI. And with its full 35mm CMOS it is the first camera to effectively reproduce the image quality of 35mm film. I wonder if it plays mp3s too ..."

Live Pr0n

[porkUpine]

*Sigh* I can see it now... live, high resolution Pr0n. No, seriously... can I see it now???? *grin*

oh great!

[museumpeace]

people snarfing my dirty pictures before I can even get home with the camera!

I posted first but /. put on the brakes!

To be the Paparazzi

[eseiat]

The joy of shooting a billboard-sized picture of Britney's latest pimple or a near nip-slip of Jessica and then jog over to a Starbucks and distribute it to the masses all while getting a mocha frap must be heaven. Why did I ever bother with a college degree when so much fun could have been had!

No.

[Anonymous Coward]

You can ONLY do it with a PowerBook. No other platform can handle images.

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[goldspider]

If I were a subscriber who paid to eliminate the ads, I'd be pretty irked at still having to put up with the ones disguised as news articles.

Re:Minor Issue...

[Anonymous Coward]

That might be the default behavior, but there has GOT to be a setting to change that. Hell, my $500 Thinkpad lets me choose what action to take when the lid closes, from nothing right through to shutdown.

Re:Hrrr

[Anonymous Coward]

Hello? Earth to idiot! This is a PowerBook. It and ONLY it can handle such a task as "uploading images". No other platform has the advanced technology needed. None.

Re:But what happpens...

[Slider451]

Only half your examples support your conclusion.

Re:Features vs Function

[`Sean]

Never mind that. I wonder if it takes pictures.

First we had mobile phones that suck for calling people but are great for taking photos. Pretty soon we'll have digital cameras that suck for taking photos but are great for calling people.

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Re:Live Pr0n - No time to photoshop!

[Ced_Ex]

This is going to make photos get to the web so fast that no one will have time to photoshop the blemishes and ugly faces. Pr0n will start to lose its appeal!

All those models are really 200lbs beasts with the image scaled 50%. Really... it's true!

Re:samples

[flibuste]

Have the JPEG been virus-checked recently?

Re:Hrrr

[LiquidCoooled]

The sumitter did however have a memory key hung around his neck decorated with pretty stickers.

Re:To be the Paparazzi

[cyclopropene]

Why did I ever bother with a college degree when so much fun could have been had!

Because you need one to be able to afford the freakin' camera!

that's a lot of megapixels

[abe ferlman]

That's really impressive. I have one question though- how many megapixels is real life? 20? 30? If it's 20 and someone builds a 40 megapixel camera, will we call it a 2x-reality zoom camera? Will it expose the spirit world?

Just wondering.

Re:Hrrr

[ThousandStars]

You mean the iPod [apple.com] , that delightful consumer electronics device that results in sexual activity, weight loss and annoying testimonials posted in internet forums.

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Re:samples

[owlstead]

Dunno, but they might present a buffer overflow all by themselves...