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How you intend to use R5?

Started Jul 30, 2020 | Polls thread
KrisAK Contributing Member • Posts: 845
Re: How you intend to use R5?

Terry Danks wrote:

Autoxave wrote:

Light Pilgrim wrote:

If you read internet and watch youtube, then you think that 99% of people use video only and for them R5 is a disaster because it overheat. When you talk to people, 99% of them to stills and overheating is not at all a problem. I think Canon knows their Target Audience for this camera.

If Canon know their audience, than why did they promote the video funcionality first and foremost?

They didn't! It seems we see what we want to see. What I saw was IBIS (finally!) and a high frame rate!

Actually, some of Canon's press releases did headline the video features, albeit with language that any rational person would take to mean "in a limited capacity, since this is first and foremost a camera designed for photographers."

But the people who tweet for a living aren't rational, and so those qualified headlined items from Canon's marketing department were taken as unqualified gospel, and (SURPRISE!) now the Twiterati are grumbling, or worse. So here we are.

P*sses me off, since it make getting useful information difficult.

What I can't figure out is if Canon knew this (predictable) backlash would happen, and simply chose to ignore it? Or if it has genuinely caught them off guard?

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