Re: 5d M III Viewfinder illumination and af points!
timbop wrote: gee Todd, thanks for educating me about professional cameras. I suppose I was just mistaken that my 1d mark 2 and 5d\'s qualified.
The 5d3 has the same system as the 7d, and I never really felt it necessary cry incessantly.
And no, I don\'t do still work on film sets. Somehow I thought this was a public canon forum and not cinema5d
Thanks for taking me out of context. What I wrote was:
Just because you have never used a professional VF on a professional camera before OR just because you have never used a feature before...
Quit being a Canon apologist and trolling the boards just because the brand of camera you have makes you feel mightier than your psyche will allow. ~90% of the people here are also fans of Canon, but I suspect the majority see these as tools and not a personal extension of our ego. Just because someone doesn\'t like something about a new camera (and there are a lot who are complaining about this particular issue) does not necessarily mean our complaints are a personal attack on you or your oh so precious camera kit. You managed to address this one issue (albeit out of context) and ignored the rest of my response because you knew I was right and you don\'t have a leg to stand on. Now move along...please.
What\'s more, shills for one camera vendor or the other are only making photo gear worse for consumers. I remember back when Canon ruled the roost. Nobody could touch Canon\'s Rebel, 20D, 5D Mark I, and professional cameras, not to mention its wonderful line-up of lenses. What happened next? Everyone in the Nikon camp rioted. They were pissed. And Canon fans rejoiced. They were proud of the company they had invested a great deal of money into. However, things changed. Canon then realized, either intentionally or otherwise, that their fan base would stay loyal no matter what; either because financially they had no other choice given the cost to change out an entire kit, or because consumers like you fell in love with the logo and instead of the product(s) itself and/or needed to have some odd sense of personal validation. As a consequence Nikon got much, much stronger than they were, and Canon rested on its laurels and tripped over itself again and again. Did they make a horrible product? No, but they were no longer the king of the hill.
So continue being an apologist for Canon. Continue lurking on threads that don\'t concern you at all. And continue wearing that cheerleader outfit and shaking your pompoms for no particular reason at all. All it means is that Canon will continue to nearly get it right, and the longer it will take them to get to the top of the hill again.
So yes, in some odd way, it\'s people like you I blame for my effed up VF.
Jun 10, 2012 at 03:41 PM
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