There was much bitching and moaning on the Canon forums about the
flawed auto focus on Canons professional cameras a couple of years ago.
On 9/27/2010 11:18 AM, William Robb wrote:
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From: "Tom C"
Subject: Re: Photokina observations...
A person of any age should not 'outgrow' what is a basic operating
aspect of a camera.
Why not?
When I was 12 and got my first camera, I inherited a mid 50s era Fuji
Rangefinder. Within a year I had outgrown enough of the basic
operating aspects of the camera to feel that it just wasn't doing what
i wanted it to do any longer, so I looked at my Dad's camera usage and
decided that he wouldn't miss his Spotmatic, provided it was at the
back of his closet on Christmas morning and the day before we went to
Montana for summer vacation.
Having said that, Pentax seemed to realize that the AF accuracy of the
K10 was flawed, but they weren't very able to do anything about it
from a consumer use perspective. This is why the K20 has user
adjustable focus biasing.
The question is, should they have released it that way or held back on
the camera for an indeterminate amount of time until it was the
perfect camera?
All the while realizing that every day they held up the release they
were losing sales to other companies, and realizing that their
competition was also releasing products that were flawed in one way or
another.
How many lens sales do you suppose Sigma got because they held up the
release of the 60-250 for as long as they did?
William Robb
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