Where does the expression "pay through the nose" come from? Is it related to monkeys flying out of ones butt?
I intend to pay through the nose for both the new 1 series. Canon, please let me.
Although it's a nice camera - my 1DMkII works perfectly fine for me. Plus, I could never justify spending $4,500 on a camera body. Maybe when it dips below the $3k price point, then I'll consider it (but I'm sure by then the MkIIII will be out).
godfather wrote:
Stan, I thought they still had that function...which I use all the time. Are you sure it can't be set up like that anymore?
I have spent quite some time in the CF menus trying to get the AF-ON button to "switch to registered AF point", and could not figure out how to do it. Granted, the camera in my hands was pre-production, but if it's really missing it's a huge bummer.
What I did like was that the AF point illumination can stay on in Servo mode, thus showing you where it's tracking, something I miss in my 1Ds2.
EB-1 wrote:
Yeah, I'm getting the sense that many changes may be for the worst. I was burned by buying the 1D MK II early (second shipment), so this one can wait.
EB
How were you burned? Did the original hype allow retailers sell it at an inflated price versus list price? Or did the price fall very quickly from the list price?
OSev wrote:
I'm hoping that's the case with many people all over. Also, when it comes down to spending $4500, I wonder how many people will duck out.
Hopefully lots, because I've got the money burning a hole in my pocket and i'm not at the very top of the list (though it is at the largest dealer in the southern half, if not the entire state)
photosuite wrote:
I really wish I didn't go there and see it! It is a must have!
Over the past couple of months I have been tossing and turning as to whether to keep my 20D or 5D as a compact travel/backup camera when my 1D arrives.
The more I read about it, the more I am starting to believe regardless of which ever one I keep, it'll just gather dust
Perhaps I should sell both and get a S5 or similar for holidays
A hoopla is a commotion. How did such an odd word come to mean that?
Well, prior to "commotion" it was "an exclamation accompanying a quick
or sudden movement", the OED tells us. That exclamation was originally
French: houp-là. [All of those who have written to us about our lack
of diacritical marks in this newsletter, take heart!] The French words
are a kind of command meaning, "Up" or "Get up". One of our sources
likens the French words to the English "upsydaisy", said when one picks
up a tot. The sense of houp-là changed in French from the command to
move to an exclamation of sudden movement (the upsadaisy sense), which
is the original sense that English took. Then, in English, it came to
refer to a collection of sudden movements or a commotion, and the
spelling became phonetic. Hoopla dates from 1870 in written English.
from the page "http://lists.topica.com/lists/WordOrigins/read/message.html?sort=&mid=909385650"
EB-1 wrote:
Yeah, I'm getting the sense that many changes may be for the worst. I was burned by buying the 1D MK II early (second shipment), so this one can wait.
What changes did they make from the first released bodies to the later ones?
dcmiller wrote:
Where does the word "hoopla" come from? What is the past tense of "hoopla"?
Hoopla - 1877 hoop la, in American English; earlier houp-la exclamation accompanying a quick movement (1870); of uncertain origin, perhaps borrowed from French houp-là (upsy-daisy). - Barnhart, Dictionary of Etymology
I got my 1D2 for $4000 in April 2004 and never had a single problem with it. It was definitely from the first batch.
I don't really get this speculation about early adopters doing the field testing or paying a premium price to own the camera. The price won't drop much for 6 months to a year, and I proved to myself the best value is to get a new camera early and have the use of it for as long as possible before you upgrade. Why wait a year or more and buy something just before it's replaced? Seems a waste of technology dollar to me.
I got to spend some time playing with the mk3 yesterday. Live view mode is great. Iso 6400 was relatively clean, but there was some slight banding in the blacks. I'm not sure whether it was a preproduction camera or not.
