RE EOS 300d, I think what we are seeing is Canon's push to get the repeat bounce of the AE-1. This camera is to capture as many new people to digital photography as possible, especially since this holiday season will be a big buying season for such. When you look at the past on electronic products, there are sweat spots for price points that bring people in. The 300d will surely fall in at one of these with its street price by Christmas. With that Canon will "wump" the competition with a good blow bring new converts to the EOS line.
I do not see it as something for those of us looking for mid to high end. Understandably, Canon sees a the axiom of "sell to the masses, live with the classes" as the route to success. The high end will come, with items we will love to have. I am sure that will happen , just not fast enough for us. But the good thing is all these people learning on EOS will give Canon a bigger base for upgrades, thus better long term price/ feature set for all of us. Somewhere, I saw that the goal of Canon was to be the leader in digital photo chips. They want to do to Kodak what they did to Xerox years ago. As I understand the two powerhouses in photo chips are Canon and Kodak. So putting this camera out steals customers from Kodak on chips and silver. As I am still stuck in FD and 4x5 the latter is worrisome, but hey Canon Uber Alles? ;) When that 1Ds comes down in price, I will give up my 17 lens set up in FD and go EOS. Scanning is a pain... Digital is our future. Flori * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
