Without doubt, this is a very strange place, and home to that weirdest of internet phenomena, the antifanboy - for him (and yes, it's always a "him"), his manufacturer of choice can do no right, and the grass is always greener on the other side. Despite that, he continues with his choice...
My issue with it (apart from the absurdly negative language used) is that so much of it is ill-informed and downright stupid. Take several recent subjects of rants: the 60D not having a magnesium body, and the purpose of the 70-300 L. Now I did my degree in metallurgy and materials technology, and frankly I would prefer to have a camera body made from the appropriate engineering polymer rather than metal, but then I've actually got an understanding of the subject. But for some, it's the end of the world, and a sign that Canon don't know what they're doing. Does it occur to them for even the tiniest fraction of a second that Canon, in common with other manufacturers, actually employs competent engineers who understand their field and have specified the most appropriate material? No, it has to be some new and ever-more devious way of Canon to take advantage of their customers. On the 70-300L front, they also claim that Canon have no idea what they're doing introducing this lens, that nobody wants it, and so on. It doesn't occur to them for a moment that Canon actually have a lot of data available to them through CPS on what lenses advanced amateurs are using on bodies such as the 7D and the 5D II, and my guess is that they can see a lot of us (certainly including me!) are using the 70-300 IS, despite owning several L lenses so clearly not being afraid of splashing the cash. Again, Canon couldn't possibly know more about their own business than the antifanboy, could they?
And finally, anyone who doesn't agree with their frankly barmy view of the world has to be a Canon employee here to stir up trouble - I give it until the Septics wake up for me to be labelled as such. I'm not. I'm an amateur (a reasonably advanced one) who's been using EOS for nearly 20 years. I hated Canon in the A series days for their dumbing-down of photography with P modes and what have you - in other words, I was pretty stupid back then. The EOS 100 converted me in an instant from someone who hated "unnecessary" technology in cameras to one willing to accept change. Do I think Canon are perfect? Most certainly not, and as another poster said, it's critically important for people to post issues they have here and elsewhere so that improvements can be made - the most useful for me being the video improvements in the 5D II. Canon do actually listen now - unlike 5 years ago when there was no sign of it - but I just don't understand why anyone has to use quite such hyperbolic and apocalyptic language in doing so, even in a culture where "awesome" has come to mean "quite nice".
