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finnhunter said:
I'm fairly new here to the forums and the build up to PMA both here
and in the Nikon forums has been fever pitch recently!
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Welcome and thank you for your contribution to this crazy thread about rumor threads, which are about rumors!

This is what I think is happening. A few people post rumors and speculations. Then a bunch of others repeat and discuss them. This creates rumor threads. People who don't care simply ignore them. But those who care, but have nothing else to say, then express themselves by requesting to stop rumors and rumor threads. This creates threads about rumor threads - the next level of insanity.

I need to start a thread about threads, which are about rumor threads ;)
 
digital horizon said:
Phil probably gets
to charge more for his ads or something along those lines, so there
is an economic incentive to maintain the current forum structure.
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So let's post as many rumors as possible to support Phil's site!
 
... doesn't exist - neither does yours. Stop the madness.
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EJP
 
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RDKirk said:
I suspect the only forums Canon pays much attention to are Japanese forums.
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Perhaps because most engineers at Canon Japan only speak Japanese?
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That may well be. The Canon decisionmakers may well believe they best understand the local market for language and other cultural reasons, and it's reasonable for them to believe that if they totally satisfy at least one set of customers, others can't be too far off.

OTOH, if they attempt to satisfy customers they don't totally understand and make a mistake...they could end up satisfying nobody.

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RDKirk
'TANSTAAFL: The only unbreakable rule in photography.'
 
RDKirk said:
That may well be. The Canon decisionmakers may well believe they
best understand the local market for language and other cultural
reasons, and it's reasonable for them to believe that if they
totally satisfy at least one set of customers, others can't be too
far off.

OTOH, if they attempt to satisfy customers they don't totally
understand and make a mistake...they could end up satisfying nobody.

--
RDKirk
'TANSTAAFL: The only unbreakable rule in photography.'
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I can't think of any reason any market or culture would not be satisfied if for instance the mirror lockup function was moved from being buried in the menus to the drive selection or a programmable button.

In some cases it seems Canon chooses to listen to nobody. :-)
 
FretNoMore said:
I can't think of any reason any market or culture would not be
satisfied if for instance the mirror lockup function was moved from
being buried in the menus to the drive selection or a programmable
button.
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That's probably more of a priority issue. With any given project by a company to improve its products, the main goal is to increase sales. Some things are nice to do, but the question is always "will this improve sales?"

This is combined with the fact that there are only so many changes--even among those believed with increase sales--that can be economically included in each new model.

Nor is any change trivial. Every change--regardless how small it seems to users--puts the project through a full run of extensive and expensive tests at various levels of development.

I dare say that making MLU easier is one of those things that Canon has never decided will gain them additional sales or cost them sales.

At this point, someone will speak of the print button, but that is one of the best examples of Canon listening more closely to their home market than to overseas (to them) markets.

I was mildly surprised to learn that the Japanese didn't really glom onto the personal computer craze that some other cultures have done. A large proportion of Canon's Japanese market do want to print directly from the camera or directly from the card.

If you'll notice, Canon DSLRs have ALWAYS had as much direct-print capability as was available at the time of their development--including the 1D series. That's also why Epson led the way in printing directly from the card. The Japanese home market isn't into using computers to print to the extent of some other markets.

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RDKirk
'TANSTAAFL: The only unbreakable rule in photography.'
 
There was one in the FM rumor thread where the guy complained that the rumored 1D3 was so inferior to the Nikon D3 [also rumorred] that Canon seemed to have lost it completely.

This was around page 279 or 297 or something. They seem to be going for the Guiness Book of Records: longest thread with lowest S/N ratio
 
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