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Jack Crouch
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p.1 #1 · Blue Dot


I have seen a lot of items for sale marked as 'Blue Dot or 'Yellow Dot'.

What is the significance of these dots?



Sep 15, 2008 at 10:08 AM
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p.1 #2 · Blue Dot


If you mean Canon MK3's then hit the Canon forum and search for focus issues.... Let's just say there are some variations on real and perceived focus issues depending on what hardware & firmware fixes have been applied.


Sep 15, 2008 at 04:08 PM
Jack Crouch
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p.1 #3 · Blue Dot


So, does 'blue dot' indicate that the camera has had problems which have been rectified?


Sep 16, 2008 at 01:08 AM
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p.1 #4 · Blue Dot


The blue dot was on the boxes of new series cameras. Cameras of the first series presumably had the issue, whereas "blue dot" ones had supposedly been fixed in factory.


Sep 16, 2008 at 02:47 AM
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p.1 #5 · Blue Dot


Thanks Xavier,

That clarifies it for me! Problem now is - has anybody out there bought a 'blue dot' Mk3 that appears to exhibit the same focusing problems as the older models?



Sep 16, 2008 at 03:17 AM
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p.1 #6 · Blue Dot


I had a Mark 3 body from one of the first batches into the UK last year, it was returned a month later, rubbish. The 2nd body was also rubbish and eventually got exchanged by Canon for a new blue dot (factory production model) and it works very well. I regularly shoot with a couple of folks who also have blue dot or later Mark 3 bodies and they are very pleased with the performance as well.



Sep 16, 2008 at 03:59 AM
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p.1 #7 · Blue Dot


Jack, I am sure you would get more replies on the Canon forum, or maybe this has even been posted somewhere (I think the Canon board gets more traffic than this one). Sorry, I cannot tell you precisely whether the answer you are looking for has been posted already or not, since I am not the kind of guy who may buy a 1D mk3 some day.


Sep 17, 2008 at 03:11 PM
Jack Crouch
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p.1 #8 · Blue Dot


Thanks for the replies.

In is a rather a redundant question now as I have decided to offload all my Canon kit and cross the line into Nikonland.




Sep 17, 2008 at 09:39 PM





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