Olympus was right: The value of good adhesives. Canon, Canon, Canon...

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http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1032&message=24556138

 

Err, Olympus only claimed they used "special adhesive" on the AF block.

How would that stop the mirror coming off either Oly or Canon cameras?

Don't tell me, Oswald didn't shoot JFK, Elvis is still alive and working
on Vegas East Side, and Diana was pregnant!

Sure, Canon cut some corners with the 5D to get FF into a marketable
price range, but what the **** does that have to do with your kooky DNA?

 

Rich,
Please crawl back under your rock!
All your posts are negative.
Do you have anything positive to contribute?
Marcel

 

Sure, he's POSITIVE that Canon sucks.

Bill :0)

 

Canon probably switched (like GM did) from expensive synthetic
adhesives to animal glues to save $0.0001 on the cost of each 5D.
Looks like the old horse's hooves don't quite cut the mustard.

 

"Cut corners?" The camera cost $3500 when it debuted. Pretty sad when
you consider a Canon F1 (FAR better built) used to cost about $1700.00.

 

"Cut corners?" The camera cost $3500 when it debuted. Pretty sad when
you consider a Canon F1 (FAR better built) used to cost about $1700.00.[/QUOTE]

it was basically a cut down version of an $8000 camera, so yes, they
'cut corners.'

 

Rubbish. It was a 20D with a FF processor. It has little physically
in common with the 1DsMkI or II except for it's FF processor.

 

and the full frame sensor is what costs a lot.

 

It just never ends with that company.
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0710/07100801a650service.asp

 

A sample of one is relevant?

 

How many MPix did the F1 have again? Does it take CF cards
or SDs? I cannot remember ...

-Wolfgang

 

OMG!!!!! What crap quality control!!! There is no excuse for shipping
a limited number of cameras with a light leak that appears under
specific shooting conditions. It should be offered on ALL cameras and
uner EVERY shooting condition!!! You really have to question the
ethics of a company that would stoop to diminish the problem by
promising to repair the cameras at no charge!!!

Of course, this is a crap made in China crap plastic P&S with a crap
small sensor and in-lens image stabilization, there is no way to clean
the sensor, and it does not have a sealed body. (How can you offer an
Aquarium Mode on a camera that does not have a waterproof body??!!?).
And since it's impossible to mount the legendary Noct Nikkor to the
body, the camera is pretty much useless for wide angle photography.


Oh, and it costs too much in Canada!!!


TR (!!!)

 

Thanks for resolving that, I can now see the connection with your DNA:
Horse's hooves : horse's ass.

 

Actually it uses the SAME processor as the 20D: the Digic-II.

It has a larger sensor (FF), a larger viewfinder (FF), a larger
pentaprism (FF), larger display (2.5" 230kpix) and, most significantly
in this context, a larger MIRROR. It lacks the 20D's built in flash.

Yes, it does look similar to the 20D in photos without any scale, which
is as close as you have ever got to it. In front of your eyes and in
your hand they look and feel completely different.

In common with the 1DsMkII it has the same processor, the same mirror
size, the same pentaprism size, the same display size (err its actually
a bigger display than the 1Ds!) and the same sensor format. It lacks
the 1Ds's built in vertical grip.

Yes, it has a lot more in common with the 1DsMkII.

 

Yeah, and how about Sony with defective sensors and exploding
batteries (not to mention rootkits), Apple with melting laptops,
Microsoft with faulty operating systems and just about any other
company that you can name nowadays.

Customer satisfaction and pride in product used to mean something, but
since survey after survey shows that PRICE is the number one concern,
you can kiss those qualities goodbye.

Bill

 

Then the 1DsMkII must have the worst build quality of any pro DSLR.

 

It used a special type of WORM (Write Once Read Many) memory. It was
actually analog and came in a strange cylindrical (roughly) shaped
container to protect it.

 

True, people are cheap.
And yet some companies have managed to avoid the problems. What IS
their secret?