Ed Svoboda wrote: >Here's the translation from Bablefish: > >Innovations Gun: it left!
Hmmm, I think we can do better than that... The French text is from Chasseur d'Images, a French photo magazine. The title is: New Products from Canon Approaching! And the text reads as follows (I've only translated an extract): You'll remember that last July, Chasseur d'Images reported persistent rumours about new digital cameras from Canon, to be released in the autumn. Well, they're almost here! Here's what we wrote in July: "The latest game in Japan seems to be hiding information from the press for as long as possible, so that no articles can be published until the product hits the stores. Sales take priority. Of course, we do not agree with this view of journalism and so we always refuse to attend presentations under non-disclosure agreement where the only goal is to keep us quiet. At the same time, we do our level best to to find out what is really going on and to let you into the secret as soon as possible, while taking care to ensure that no one confuses fact with rumour. For example, what exactly is going on at Canon at the moment? Just like everywhere else, Canon is preparing for Photokina (25th - 30th September), with its collection of new little items (to fill in any gaps in the product line), plus the occasional bombshell. [skipping down to the EOS content...] But the most startling information, which is not supposed to be revealed until September, is the new professional digital SLR which will be sold alongside the EOS 1D, and which might be called the D120. It will have 12 Megapixels, achieved by joining together two 6-megapixel CMOS sensors, which will give an image surface similar in size to the 24x36 (35mm) format." (end of the quote from the July magazine). Good news: we were not mistaken! [the article goes on to mention some other items that Chasseur d'Images predicted in July, and which they say have now materialised, including a new G3. Then they stop short of repeating the rumour about the D120, and simply advice the reader to re-read what they wrote in July (above).] So I suppose that we can all continue to guess... Gerry * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
