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>> Canon "purposely" half-steps product development rollouts, to keep the buzz
>> alive and us reaching for our credit cards.
"So the new 1Ds is a half-step and people should avoid it because the "real" upgrade is coming in 12-18 months? Not being facetious here, but if that's the case it's good to know."
It's well known that Canon has several cameras of the 1Ds line, already on the drawing board, in various stages of development as they have to do a heck-of-a-lot of design work (future casting) in regard to the manufacturing/implementation process. They manufacture all their sensors in their very own chip plants and need to deal with design engineering based upon the continuously in flux, state of emerging technology; What has Applied Materials announced today? or What startling new break throughs have been announced, and by whom? This, of course is all dependent on product availability (contracts have to be signed) and what the competition is doing; all the while they have to set up and train personnel for both the present and upcoming manufacturing lines.
In the short, a camera is not to be avoided, but bought and used, based upon your needs (emotion) as it'll "always" be obsoleted by the next model in short order.
>> Trust me, the answer to "How will I know?", is an emotional response cause if
>> there's no emotional response, you knowing the specs of the camera you're
>> upgrading from (5D to 5D Mk II), then it's not worth upgrading to cause sans the
>> emotion of need, there's no need to upgrade.
"See above for definition of "merely" once more, but this point is also specious -- because there's no need to own a camera AT ALL, much less to upgrade. Saying things like this provides no useful information, so why say them?"
Agreed, so the act of owning a camera is strictly emotional but the information is useful, it's just that some don't realize how useful my above is.  We're an emotional based creature. Need (emotion), the mother of invention.
>> When it's worth upgrading to, you'll know and eighteen months later, Canon will
>> come out with another half-step model, just so as to keep the money coming in
Did that happen with the 5D or the 1Ds?
That's a trick question in that it will happen with the 5D but the 5D hasn't been superseded yet, so it hasn't happened with the 5D but it has happened with the 1Ds as the improvements are incremental as opposed to the next evolutionary step. The roll out of the 1Ds was revolutionary (crop Vs FF) and now it's incremental; evolutionary (evolving). It all started back in the beginning with the D30 and it has basically been an incremental horse race since.
>> It's all about emotion and logic has nothing to do with it.
"I disagree."
An expected emotional response.
Again, you'll know when it's time to upgrade cause when your cockles light up.....
For me, it's time to upgrade the 10D to the 40D but I'd like to wait and see what comes of the 5D.
See, it's not time for me to upgrade the 10D cause I can "rationalize" waiting which is an emotional response.
Edited by BeeMan458 on Aug 22, 2007 at 06:00 AM GMT
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....I'll go ahead and pull the trigger.