DaDane wrote:
Sprout Crumble wrote:
Well said. A cheap base-model Canon would be great for all the reasons you stated. The D50 has been a great seller and the Pentax models are also very strong sellers in many markets. They're cheap. Canons 350D requires that you're a little more certain that you want to get into DSLR photography. Canon need an impulse buy body for the masses.
Well, right now the net is flooded with fake ads, - but this, if true, might be what I was suggesting:

http://www.infodigitalcamera.com/EOS3000D.pdf

I cant imagine that even if canon did make this camera that it would come with a plastic mount as stated, plus the pdf talks about the 350D

Yakim Peled wrote:

>> Sure current MF photographers may not jump at a Canon MF digital but those future pro photographers that started with Canon Digital (ie a Rebel) may grow through stages to other possibilities 30D, 5D, ID MKII, 1Ds MK II (not necessarily all of them but the choices are there).

The most important word here is "may". It may happen and it may not. There is always a gap in the market but not always there is a market in the gap.

...

>> Is there any information in this thread other than this first post?

Nope. Come to think of it, even this post does not offer much info... :-)



There may not be much info, but the gap-in-the-market market-in-the-gap phrase is very well spun, so great post!

Much obliged.

If that 3000D is a hoax, the picture is pretty well done. Even if it is composed of several pictures of different camera bodies, the end result is a great looking design!

RDKirk wrote:
Perhaps Canon Inc allows selected regional subsidiaries to be "designated leakers."



Most likely not. I've spoken to a few companies about deliberate leaking and all say that they won't or can't with regards to insider trade laws. Although unlikely in this case people could potentially end up in prison or markets freeze the stock. In fact, the whole 5D-leakage last year was considered "most embarrassing".

Some companies have taken this to a completely different level. One of Apples local executives told me that they usually are briefed about the new Macs only an hour or so before Steve Jobs announce at a keynote. However, Apple is a much more centralised organisation than Canon and rely on basically two kinds of products (Mac, iPod) whose announcements has a potentially larger impact on the stock. But still, Canon is not that different although I doubt any leakage about a new copyprinter will raise anyones eyebrows.

Go back a decade and it was much more common in general for us reporters and editors to receive information under NDA with regards to printing cycles and such. Internet has changed all that.


Edited by Outermountain on Aug 10, 2006 at 05:06 PM GMT

The PDF is pretty funny. Either the reference of 350D on the second page is an incredibly bad typo or the thing is as fake as most of the stuff out there.

lordcarl wrote:
I will post up the picture I shot of him with that lens one of these days.


I will be sick with anticipation until you do

Since the lower numbers are the higher priced cameras I predict a new Decimal series. Next release is the .2D body (leaving room for upgrade to a .1D and the prosumer .3D).

It looks exactly like the 3000V film camera. So I guess it wasn't all that hard to chop.

Wow! a 39 page thread. Cn anyone who read through the whole thing give a quick summary?

Thanks,

Mike

no one knows anything
there, i just saved you a lot of time.
Invoice is in the mail

oh wait.. ive led you astray
there is at least one confirmed rumor with a really nice source doc to boot

Remford wrote:
Yet another example of hooey that hoping that by being authoritatively-stated, it will somehow be mistaken for actual insight. A tin-plated turd, nothing more.
You were referring to my hunch of the 500mm lens or the non-1D camera to be unveiled on Aug 24?

VanIsle wrote:
no one knows anything


Great answer. Now everyone pack up your pup tents and go home...

So I bet I should wait with buying a 350D? There price might drop after this one?

Lovah wrote:
So I bet I should wait with buying a 350D? There price might drop after this one?

I wouldn't buy anything for at least the next few weeks.

I can't believe this thread is still alive. Let it die the death it deserves.

I found out what the groundbreaking new technology is...

There will be a second print button on all new EF lenses

Flappie

Free bump just to make Hrow happy.

Flappie wrote:
I found out what the groundbreaking new technology is...

There will be a second print button on all new EF lenses

Flappie

I hope Canon won't forget to make a built-in printer in the battery grip

Canon EOS DSLR Timeline: http://www.dialogen.no/foto/EOS_cameras.pdf

makaweli wrote:
Canon EOS DSLR Timeline: http://www.dialogen.no/foto/EOS_cameras.pdf

The time of announcement, not time of marketing, would have been more appropriate. The time of announcement is almost perfectly controllable and more indicative of Canon's intended cycle of product introduction. The time of announcement will also show coincidences with major industry shows and peak sales seasons.

The "time of marketing" includes factors Canon can't easily control, thus doesn't necessarily reflect a date based on Canon's intentions.

I wonder if this thread will still be alive in 24/8/06. It's already gone far more than I anticipated.