--- Willem-Jan Markerink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Time for some enquiries on the PhotoKina....and if
> true, then there
> is all the more reason for a successor of the 1Ds
> (either they
> artificially crippled both, or none; a factor 2
> difference back
> between the two back then wouldn't have been
> accepted by the market).
I doubt that Canon intentionally "crippled" either the
1v or 1D. But time, and technology, march on.
Processors get faster and wider (8 bit -> 16 bit -> 32
bit). Memory busses get faster and wider. With
experience, algorithms get optimized or rewritten from
scratch. Possibly even the optics in the AF path get
improved (tings like better coatings, aspheric optics,
more sensitive sensors).
Had Canon been able to build the 1v with AF equal to
the 1D MkII, I'm sure they would have. Their real
competition was (and is) Nikon, not their own digital line.
=====
Bob Meyer
I don't suffer from insanity... I enjoy every minute of it.
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