you are defending Canon today. You know as well as I do that you
ARE paying for your software AND ac adapter when you purchase you
Canon. FUnny how we change sides when we change brands.
Greg Gebhardt in
Jacksonville, Florida
http://www.pbase.com/greggebhardt
.... Greg, my move to Canon was against my will. But almost
instantly I realised that the 1D and the Canon backup were exactly
what I wanted exactly what Nikon should have been.
I had the misconception that Canon were actually worse than Nikon
and with some justification, they do not have quality control and
rely on tight manufacturing tolerances to force ‘within spec’
manufacturing for instance ~ a recipe for busy service centres.
They were less loyal to customers and released new models instead
of fixing the old, but over time I realised that this was a better
option than Nikon’s silent upgrading for instance, a practice I
once approved of but one which did not actually work for me when my
hour of need arose.
And then one sees the technology available the price issues just
fade away ~ the 1D for instance arrived with the 550EX flash
sporting E-TTL and a time that Nikon were still using the SB gun
and found out it would not work with D-TTL so the DX gun was
introduced. Then the D2h arrived with iTTL and an SB00 gun has been
introduced, but Canon’s MK11 is now sporting ETTL11 and D
(distance) and they need not introduce a new flashgun ~ thus saving
me personally about €600 on an upgrade path.
This is just one example of product that was available to Nikon for
over three years, yet they chose not to implement it.
The 1D arrived with banding, noise and split processor alignment
issues. With the exception for a few very early models, which
needed hardware changes, the vast majority were satisfactorily
corrected via a user downloadable firmware, again a technology
available to Nikon for over three years, why did they deny actually
denied that firmware was even possible?
Yes I defended Nikon, I had chosen Nikon over Canon and firmly
believed that technology was the limiting factor, I then discover
that the technology was readily available, that is that the
solutions were third or fourth party and available off the shelf
for a fee, in my mind, Nikon did not only NOT buy the best
available but were deliberately denying us its use.
I’d have paid Nikon DOUBLE for the 1D in a D1x/h body the D2h is
still not it close mind you but as close as it could have been
two years ago too but obviously not as cheap.
