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Canon bans Viltrox lens

Started 7 months ago | Discussions thread
bodeswell Senior Member • Posts: 1,378
Re: Canon bans Viltrox lens

Scott Larson wrote:

bodeswell wrote:

Scott Larson wrote:

Canon purposely designed their EX 580 flash to jam the frequency used by Pocket Wizards, the most popular third party radio trigger at the time. That told me what Canon thought about third party products.

More likely Canon simply ignores third party products when developing its own. Canon does not ask those third parties to develop product, and they don’t share their income or their plans with Canon.

No, the EX 580 was shown to transmit a jamming signal right at the frequency that Pocket Wizards used. I sent my two EX 580s to another third party for a simple and inexpensive modification which stopped it so I wouldn't have to use Pocket Wizard's EMF socks on them.

Canon clearly knows a lot about third party products.

I did not speak to what Canon might know. I said that when they design their own products the spend no time worrying about how their design decisions might affect third party products. They ignore that. As they should.

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