WebDog wrote:
According to Canon Sweden, they will invite the photo journalists "soon, very soon" to present new products.... and that we have to anticipate product cycles shorter than 3years!
"The speculation part of the professional models, new land IV's. On 22 February 2007 was the Canon EOS 1D Mark III. Earlier, the modellcyklerna for professional cameras have been 3 years. Ingvar reveals that we can expect shorter cycles to come.
Then he smiles and says to me soon, very soon will be invited to the next product launch."
"The speculation part of the professional models, new land IV's. On 22 February 2007 was the Canon EOS 1D Mark III. Earlier, the modellcyklerna for professional cameras have been 3 years. Ingvar reveals that we can expect shorter cycles to come.
Then he smiles and says to me soon, very soon will be invited to the next product launch."
That translation is fantastic - made me laugh!!! "New land IV" oh please let that be the camera's new name - awesoe
50D is another stop gap model, which went for massive pixel increase to distract buyers from the lack of any real advances (except LCD) over the 40D. 2009 is hopefully the year they serve up new AF systems.
Well, according to what I understand from this, the 1D Mk IV will not be seen in a very long time... :-)
Happy shooting,
Yakim.
That was a rather curious article with a lot of too-ing and fro-ing and marketing-speak by a "Canon USA Senior Technical Specialist." He doesn't really say what the problem was, only that Canon ultimately fixed it by issuing a firmware release (1.2.3) and he then cites the fact that the major news orgs "approved" use of the MkIII at the Olympics as evidence that all is good. I have to believe it would be extremely unusual for the major news organizations to "disapprove" a top-line camera from the major manufacturers (Canon and Nikon.) All hell would break loose, heads would roll, and I'm sure the news orgs would be loath to do something that would produce such anger among the Canon execs. If you are a major news org and don't want to incur the everlasting wrath of the largest camera manufacturer in the world, you don't do something that public and damning.
:... All hell would break loose, heads would roll, and I'm sure the news orgs would be loath to do something that would produce such anger among the Canon execs. You don't do something that public and damning to one of the two largest camera manufacturers in the world.
Is that why the black helicopters took Rob Galbraith to Gitmo?
jonbrach wrote:
gonna be tough to improve on the mk III despite all the complaining it is one hell of a camera
I think it will be easy to make the mk4 better by the same order of minitude as the mk3 was to the mk2. I hope for a bigger difference, more like mk1 to mk2, which I am sure they could pull off if they wanted to.
