I'm actually really surprised that Canon found this to be a real issue. According to Canon rumors earlier today they were told by Roger at lensrentals.com that his next shipment of cameras had a new covering for the top LCD.
I won't send it in for a fix if they require it to be sent to them... It does not really effect me at all, I rarely even use the top LCD. But if I send it in for a check/clean or whatever they can do it then. I won't be rushing off though to get it fixed.
too bad, was hoping it would be for something good like fixing the missing video features
(or at least for the talk about all of the AF freezes, system crashed, eyefi card crashes)
all this means is they will get another backlog of orders and the price will stick at $3500 longer (maybe they were glad people made a big deal about the LCD in dark thing, now they get an excuse to backlog and re-build momentum at $3500 pricing )
kewlcanon wrote:
Don't send it in...you'll get the diamond AF points when it comes back
nope, they have heard out cries about no changeable focusing screens so they will come back with the AF module entirely removed and precision focusing screens installed
eaglescout wrote:
Hmmm…. Illumination behind the camera can affect exposure settings. How can an experienced photographic manufacturer allow that to happen?
Why don’t they just issue a recall and refund everyone’s money? Better yet, take them as trade-in against the 1Dx, even up.
Probably because nobody thought to take a meter reading with the lens cap on and the LCD light active. The interesting thing is, when you take the lens cap off, the LCD illumination has no effect on the meter reading, at least not on mine.
Not really an issue to me, but I'll probably send it in when I'm sure I won't need it for awhile as you never know what else under the hood may need tweaking that they're not telling us about.
Wahoowa wrote:
I'm actually more concerned with the front focus issue when using the outer AF points than this.
Field curvature is an issue with the performance of your lens. The AF array assumes that you have a flat field focusing lens. The issue is with your lens, not the camera.
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