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--Earlier on in the forum I noticed the car analogy - expecting a car
manufacturer to unleash the whole power of the engine. Well,
actually, very few car manufactureres do that. Most car performance
can be improved by a new muffler(exhaust) system & a new controller
chip. These 2 "minor" upgrades on my previous car would have cost
about $3000 on a $65,000 car & bumped up the HP from 240 HP to 330
HP. So don't ***** about the DReb not being "fully-featured" -
welcome to real life!
Linda
Are you sure you have not moved the camera to trigger the servo mode in the AIfocus? Only when you can REPRODUCIBLE demonstrate the camera fixed firmly to one place (e.g. on a tripod) to start servo mode with totally fixed stationary subject, you have ground to say the camera has errors. I more suspect here user error than camera error.Not everything does what it says it did. That's the problem.
The AIfocus for instance is broken. It does not do what it is
supposed to do. It is supposed to start tracking a moving subject
automatically, and otherwise work like one shot focus. But it is
broken. It often starts tracking when there is no moving target.
A lot of noise I admit, but very rarely anything you can say for sure is camera generic error. If your AF is totally out of the spec, then you need to get your camera calibrated to function correctly. I have seen much more reports of no AF problems than those of AF problems (including those from myself), so I assume the camera to work generally OK, but there are sure some problem units.Canon can either fix this or provide a workaround (manual switching
between focus modes). The Nikon upgrade has an auto focus
improvement. Why can Canon not come out with one? Lots of people
complain about AF inaccuracy with wide angle lenses (different
lenses, Canon and others). I'm sure this could be addressed in a
firmware update. The better P&S cameras do not seem to have such AF
problems at the wide angle.
The questionactually is, that are the flash shots radically wrong or if this is more a questions that they to dot match someones personal taste. I have seen newer an example where a flash shot is either more or less completely burned out or (almost) totally black.People have also complained a lot about the flash exposure being
incorrect. I'm not saying Canon should add FEC. I'm saying they
should bring out some fix for the flash exposure problem. I don't
care what that fix is as long as it works. The better P&S camera's
have a flash system that works better.
MLU is not in the spec of 300D, so that's that. P&S'es do not have mirror, SLR does. So you can expect when you buy the camera the "mirror slam" to have some effect.People have also complained about blurred tripod pictures with long
lenses, with exposures under one second. A good P&S camera does not
have this problem. I'm not saying "Canon must enable MLU". I'm only
saying the camera has a bug and it needs to be fixed. I don't care
whether the fix is called MLU or something else.
So did I, and have had no problem with my 300D nor with my current 350D either. Quite many times I have seen there is a significant learning curveMany people (including me) who bought the DR used a P&S camera
before, without the AF, flash and blur problems we see in the DR.
Us plain consumers consider the DR to have bugs that need to be
fixed.
As far as I see, your "errors" are not anything that can be considered to be "out of specification" i.e. any real error Canon must correct. If the unit is falty, like it has serious AF or flash exposure error, it must be sent to service - no FW update can help these cases.I'm not asking for a new engine. I'm asking for bug fixes and I
don't care how the bugs are fixed, as long as they are. I have
got a bit of experience after one year with the DR, so I do know
about the AF modes (which the DR doesn't have but doesn't work
properly without) and I do know about FEC (which the DR doesn't
have but which would offer a manual solution for the flash bug) and
I do know about MLU (which the DR doesn't have but appears to need
to avoid blur). But as a consumer I'm not telling Canon how to
solve the bugs. I'm just asking that they do, because a good P&S
camera does not appear to have these bugs.
As a D70 owner, I do notice an improvement in dynamic focus
tracking after the fw upgrade ( I get a lot more hits instead
of misses now ).... and unlike the, 300D there are
no locked features left to be unlocked.....
I don’t think Canon will ever gif us anything like Wasia and
Undutchables 0.2.3
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Best Regards
Gisli Kristinsson
Even with your investment in EF-mount lenses?
Even the OP doesn't seem angry enough to sell his Rebel and buy a
D70. For how much Canon is apparently "abandoning" their loyal
customers, they sure don't seem to be losing any of them.
--Would you like Canon to e.g. give you something minor like MLU (or
something other minor like in Nikon new FW) and simultaneously
prevent the use of Wasia or Undutchables. It'd more or less sure
the new FW would not be compatible with the hacks you have now.
I don’t think Canon will ever gif us anything like Wasia and
Undutchables 0.2.3
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Best Regards
Gisli Kristinsson
Time for another beer...
Earlier on in the forum I noticed the car analogy - expecting a car
manufacturer to unleash the whole power of the engine. Well,
actually, very few car manufactureres do that. Most car performance
can be improved by a new muffler(exhaust) system & a new controller
chip. These 2 "minor" upgrades on my previous car would have cost
about $3000 on a $65,000 car & bumped up the HP from 240 HP to 330
HP. So don't ***** about the DReb not being "fully-featured" -
welcome to real life!
Linda
I don't agree with the idea that Canon shot themselves in the foot - they delivered a breakthrough dSLR in terms of price and performance with the DR. In order to segment the market, they needed to differentiate it from the D series or else they risked losing sales of the D10/D20; the best way to do this is to have the consumer model be less capable by leaving out features most DR purchasers would not miss. (It's no dofferent than Intel's disabling the FPU and selling chips for less - and that certainly didn't hurt them in the long run). Their goal is to maximize the profit from both lines, and differentiation is one way to do that.it's all about the gesture dude, all about the gesture. The 300D
fiasco will leave a sour taste in a lot of ppls mouths for a
long tiime to come still and Canon really shot themselves
in the foot on that one imo ( to think some dude in Russia
had to crack the 300D is beyond laughable ) Canon should up
the ante right NOW and make all those LOCKED features available
to 300D owners right NOW if they care anything about their
customer base.
MLU is from the Mirror Lock Up...and are preaty helpfull for long
terms exposers..
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Nice world...'FROZEN'-it !!! (with digital).
828, U60 and DR...soon an 20D-er
Would you like Canon to e.g. give you something minor like MLU (or
something other minor like in Nikon new FW) and simultaneously
prevent the use of Wasia or Undutchables. It'd more or less sure
the new FW would not be compatible with the hacks you have now.
I definitely agree on that. What I meant to say is theyI don't agree with the idea that Canon shot themselves in the footit's all about the gesture dude, all about the gesture. The 300D
fiasco will leave a sour taste in a lot of ppls mouths for a
long tiime to come still and Canon really shot themselves
in the foot on that one imo ( to think some dude in Russia
had to crack the 300D is beyond laughable ) Canon should up
the ante right NOW and make all those LOCKED features available
to 300D owners right NOW if they care anything about their
customer base.
- they delivered a breakthrough dSLR in terms of price and
You can't dine from a pat on the back.it's all about the gesture dude, all about the gesture.
