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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: Canon Announces the Canon EOS 6D DSLR

« on: September 17, 2012, 10:54:25 AM »

Kudos to Canon! (Assuming the sensor is really new and has better DR than the 5D MIII as it should to keep up with the competition.)

I have to admit that I thought all these specs floating around were just a stunt to avoid a collective depression in the Canon community.

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EOS Bodies / Re: Canon EOS 6D Specs Leaked?

« on: September 15, 2012, 05:00:28 AM »

Looks like more than one leaked picture. So, this could be real, but the specs are really disappointing.

Did people from the Photoshop 101 class got to post on CR for homework?

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EOS Bodies / Re: Canon EOS 6D Specs Leaked?

« on: September 14, 2012, 05:20:00 PM »

I just watched a movie (Salmon fishing in the Yemen) where the government PR chief in the beginning said something like "give me some piece of good news, something, anything to say"... the day after the D600 has been presented, even my aunt would have gotten some 6D specs published on canonrumors. 

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EOS Bodies / Re: Canon EOS 6D Announcement Soon? [CR1]

« on: September 10, 2012, 03:32:01 AM »

If you take different parts of old people and stitch them together, do you get a young person?

So, I guess that Canon is planning to put out a "new" product which is simply a Frankenstein of outdated products.

No you wont get young person :-D

...hmm, according to you, 550D should have different AF then 500D, 600D should have new sensor and new AF (because it is new generation of camera, doesnt matter that life cycle is +- one year), 60 D with new AF and different sensor too. Of course they reuse parts. They reuse them to make stuff cheaper. What do you think how many would Rebel cost if every next gen would get entirely new sensor, AF etc ? R&D costs of new sensor are big. And its not all about sensor, processors counts too...

I agree that they have to reuse parts to make cameras cheaper, but if they do that for three years and more, that's way overdone. As somebody has said, the only reason to stay with Canon is that the quality of their lenses is still superior, on average, to that of the competitors. Moreover the fact that Canon has sold the most of all makes the used market quite liquid, and the stuff cheaper. But if it was just for the camera bodies, I would jump immediately from Canon to Nikon/Sony/Pentax. Their cameras at the moment are way superior.

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EOS Bodies / Re: Canon EOS 6D Announcement Soon? [CR1]

« on: September 08, 2012, 10:30:48 AM »

Me want 70D!

I'm really tired of the same sensor in the 7D,60D,550D,600D,650D,M,1100D,G1X (resized in the last two). I bet that they are tired also at Canon: so much so that they haven't been doing any research and development for the past two years. 

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Canon General / Re: "Time for a Change at Canon?" -Barons

« on: August 10, 2012, 11:07:11 AM »

I again look at the stocks to judge how well the management runs a company. So, just go to Google Finance, type Canon Inc. (TYO:7751), then compare with Nikon (TYO:7731), and Nikkei 225. The year to date results are:
Canon: -22%; Nikon: +21%; Nikkei 225: -1%.

Despite all the chatter, Nikon is doing much better than Canon in a flat market (so please don't start talking of floods, earthquakes, and nuclear disasters).

My personal opinion (also looking at the quality of the latest products): Canon needs a new management.

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Canon General / Re: "Time for a Change at Canon?" -Barons

« on: July 27, 2012, 06:10:05 AM »

Well, I really hope then that at Canon besides trying to improve their copy machines and other office equipment they'll keep an eye also on DSLR cameras.

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Canon General / Re: "Time for a Change at Canon?" -Barons

« on: July 26, 2012, 08:11:04 PM »

Does Nikon make office equipment?

No (as I'm sure you already know since you asked) they don't. Indeed comparing Canon with Nikon stocks is a little like comparing oranges with mandarines, but since Barons article is about the company as a whole and it is difficult to come up with another company more similar to Canon than Nikon to factor out market conditions, the comparison should still give a good indication on the quality of Canon management.

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Canon General / Re: "Time for a Change at Canon?" -Barons

« on: July 26, 2012, 07:31:01 PM »

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Basing a corporate health assessment on two quarters is like making a judgment on World War II the day after Pearl Harbor.

It may be misleading.

I agree that these last two quarters have been like Pearl Harbor for Canon, I just hope that the rest will go like World War II as well (at least in terms of change of course): after D800 vs 5D Mark III and t4i vs 3200D (which in theory should be compared to the t3 or a future t4), I'm afraid to see what D7100 vs 70D will look like (I'm planning to upgrade to the 70D).

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Canon General / Re: "Time for a Change at Canon?" -Barons

« on: July 26, 2012, 07:09:36 PM »

Since I trust the market for financial matters more than bloggers, I went to Google finance and compared the performance of Canon stock (TYO:7751) with Nikon stock (TYO:7731): year to date Canon lost 27.57% while Nikon gained 22.80%. I guess that's enough to judge the respective managements and products. All the rest is bla bla bla...

Both Canon and Nikon are recovering from the devastating effects of tsunamis in Japan and Indonesia.  It has been a volatile couple of years for both companies and is likely to remain so as the effects of lost production facilites and investment in new ones continues to be felt.   This is the greater context, DXO mark and some bloggers will probably have some effect, but largely against the greater adversities I think it is bla bla bla

This is the "beauty" of forums and blogs: one doesn't have to be smart or even just to understand what others wrote; it's enough if one writes something, anything, and all will be fine.

Now I elaborate: I know all that you wrote, but did you realize that the performance of Nikon is +22.80% and not -22.80%?
It's not "recovering", it's doing quite well indeed in this adverse market. The opposite is true for Canon.
If you moreover want to see the effect of any event on the stock price further in the past, just again look at both charts (TYO:7751 and TYO:7731) on Google finance: you'd be amazed to see how analysts quantify in terms of price change all the bla bla bla; most of it amounts to zero.

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Canon General / Re: "Time for a Change at Canon?" -Barons

« on: July 26, 2012, 06:10:11 PM »

Yes, I understand that. But, there is a difference between under-performance due to management weaknesses and under-performance due to external market conditions. The Barron's columnist is trying to make the case that the current management is at fault, while other analysts are looking at Canon's numbers and viewing them as indicative of what is happening in the entire sector. They are basically saying: "if Canon is having problems, it is going to be worse for other companies in the same sector."

The Barron's columnist would replace the top executive at Canon because Americans and Europeans have screwed up their respective economies. That's a non-sequitur.

Since I trust the market for financial matters more than bloggers, I went to Google finance and compared the performance of Canon stock (TYO:7751) with Nikon stock (TYO:7731): year to date Canon lost 27.57% while Nikon gained 22.80%. I guess that's enough to judge the respective managements and products. All the rest is bla bla bla...