Re: American dollar finally "gets" to Canon
- From: Alienjones <Alienjones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:29:16 +1000
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Wolfgang Weisselberg wrote:
| Rita Berkowitz <ritaberk2008@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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|> It would be foolish for Canon to set a "world" price
|
| It would be foolish for any for-profit company to set a world
| price, full stop.
|
| Richer places can and will pay more, generating more profit.
| Poorer places will only generate profit with lower prices.
| If you really want profit, you need to maximise for profit.
|
| -Wolfgang
|
| PS: I wonder how you'd be thundering against Canon, if they
| managed the kind of broken firmware update Nikon and the D3
| just managed. Probably very loud, long and diatribical.
|
| How about you keep your hand in that trademark of yours,
| and simply write "Nikon" instead of "Canon", huh?
Like all the other contributors in these groups who seem to make a habit
of jumping on everyone they can at the slightest possibility there may
be an opportunity, you make false assumptions based on no information at
all.
"Owners not experiencing these problems should not update their camera's
firmware"
Like everything else in this world Wolfgang...
*Don't fix what ain't broke*!
Neither of my D3s have any problems and they still have the original
firmware.
In your rush to dump on Rita, you cleverly neglected to mention that
Canon have an incredible record for busted firmware, don't they?
I killed stone dead a 3 week old 20D that used to lock up on every lens
change, following Canon's firmware "fix" that didn't! How many firmware
released did they make to get that one right? Don't bother, I'll tell
you... *THREE*.
And... The firmware fix for the MkIII? Hmmm... Still working on that one
three months after release. Something about the timing of the motor that
drives the mirror up, isn't it?
Canon should have stuck with spring loaded mirrors... Or took a lesson
from the one that fell out of my 5D in the middle of a wedding!
Oh yeah, Wolfgang... Canon have an awesome history of costing their
owners serious money and embarrassment. Canon's response? Well you know
the 5D isn't a Professional camera, don't you????
Yep. No preferred repair time. No loan camera. Just 3 weeks and 2 days
to fix it. And thennn... 30mm back focus error at 1 meter when it
returned! Another 2 weeks to fix that stuff up. Five weddings I had to
do with my backup camera for Christ sake.
Sorry Wolfgang... Canon have always made some nice cameras but reliable?
Nope! As far back as my AE1, Canon had no reliability. The old "Electro
shutter" would start screeching the first time you changed a lens while
someone sneezed and gradually slow down. The fix? A mere $160... Dust in
the camera was not covered by warranty!
I could go on and on but I'd just bore myself!
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