Haha Eddyin. I started with Canon. Cuz of all the talk about the new digital rebel, I though a film rebel couldn't be so bad. They let me down so many times. Can't manual well, can't AF well either. Best decision I even made was when I traded my Rebel for a Pentax MZ-M.
Canon's over its head with its marketing gimmicks lol. Remember those complaints about the 40D sensor 'overheating' from live view and then refusing to operate until cool again?
I looked over the link to those rapid Mark3 shots at Rob Galbraith's page demonstrating AF inaccuracies..
Gotta put it into perspective, it is 10fps a second right? You are pretty close to making stop motion with the flash applets he posted. With the runner's arms moving like that, you think its something that can initiate a change autofocus?
(Might as well take those HD Camcorders, blaze down 60fps and then pull out the 'crisp' images.
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I think perhaps we are reaching a certain optimal in product performance vs design. Like with the conventional 1/2.5" CCDs in digital cameras for example. At about 4-5mp range, performance began to top off and noise took over. Nowadays, digicams at ISO200 can barely make what DPR, DCR, ImgResrc. would call usable prints.
Perhaps we at reaching the limit with autofocus as well or perhaps expecting too much out of it. Going back to Rob Galbraiths article about Mark3 AF issues, look at the runner series. Could the folds in her jersey, the swinging of her hand, panning of the camera alter focus point?
Anyways, this is Canon's battle to win. Perhaps one day they'll go back to making cameras with serious photographic innovation and not just one up on the automation
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