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Canon 1D-II Photo in Feb 9th SI Mag
« on: February 09, 2004, 09:10:04 pm »

In the February 9th issue of Sports Illustrated's Super Bowl issue will be at least some photos taken with the Canon 1D-mk.II, including a 2 page spread run as an ad by Canon for the camera. I don't know if the cover photo of Patriot's QB Tom Brady was taken with the new camera, but look for the 2 page photo.  

Here are the details:  

"With a smattering of EOS-1D Mark II's doled out to photographers covering the game (Canon is tight-lipped as to exactly how many preproduction units were circulating on the sidelines of Reliant Stadium), you may have already seen a photo taken with the camera - without knowing it - on a news web site or published in your local newspaper.

A Canon advertisement in the next issue of Sports Illustrated, however, will offer a guaranteed opportunity to see the printed result from one of the camera's files. Canon USA's David Sparer indicates that the photo, which will be spread across two pages in the magazine, was taken with a preproduction EOS-1D Mark II by photographer David Grapkin.

It was, says Sparer, shot as a RAW .CR2 file at ISO 800, 1/500 at f/2.8 with a Canon EF 400mm f/2.8L, then processed on a Powerbook G4/1.25GHz using a beta copy of Digital Photo Professional (DPP). In DPP, Sparer set a click white balance off a near-white jersey in the frame, warmed up the photo slightly using DPP's colour adjustment tools and saved out the result as a 16-bit TIFF file.

The file was then opened in Photoshop CS, where it was cropped down to about 70% of its original dimensions to tighten up the framing and fit the ad's layout. Sparer also applied a 1.0 pixel Gaussian blur to the chrominance to mute image noise, set a black point in Levels and darkened down slightly an area in which white text was to be overlaid.

Sharpening was set to none in the camera, and no sharpening was applied in DPP. The photo likely was sharpened for printing - a standard and necessary step for all photos being rendered as ink on paper - and converted to CMYK for printing downstream from the adjustment work that Sparer performed on-site in Houston. It was expected that few, if any, additional adjustments would be made to the photo before it went to press. The double-truck ad will appear within the first few pages of the February 9, 2004 issue of Sports Illustrated, which is emerging on newstands this week.
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