Hey Mike, how many other manufacturer's do you think have this kind of loyalty? It's amazing that Canon still has a large portion of the market wrapped around it's fingers, happy to accept a faulty product, again, and again and again.
I think that it would be good for the company if the early adopter rate dropped significantly, to show Canon it needs to get its act together before taking peoples' money so happily.
Mike, I'm not picking your your frame of mind at all, infact you're not alone and Canon have the market in a very unique position of brand loyalty, one rarely acheived in an market, especially one dependent on such fast moving technology.
I recently having gone from full time emplyment to freelance had to make a tough decision. I've bounced back and forth over the years and decided to go with Nikon as the D3 has been a more solid camera, and regardless of MP, the 3 main pro zoom lenses absoultely blow Canon out of the water, especially at open apertures an corners.
The Nikon kit cost me much more than a potential Canon one, but I felt more comfortable doing so given that reliability comes before anything else as a working professsional and Nikon has delivered more so than Canon in the last few years and seem to more transparent about their direction and goals going forward, with a firm commitment to full frame imaging, for example.
People have been begging for full frame for some time, without really needing it, or having the understanding of how to use it to it's benefit (not that its necessarily better). One thing I know for sure, changing camera kit for better quality has never ended up being worth it, both on a satisfaction or monetary level. Clients couldn't care less, that is unless I fail my assignment, and that comes down to reliability, and I believe through my own exeprience and working amoungst my professional peers, that Nikon is ahead in that department.
Anyway, hope the camera works out for you and for others Mike. All the best.
I'm on the list to get asap... Funny with all the fear around being an early adopter, beta tester, etc. I figure either it'll deliver, or Canon will fix it eventually - either way I'll have mine at the same time or earlier than all the wait and see crowd.
