While the 700D deserves everything it gets, don't forget everything Canon has done with glass in the last few years. Had I been shopping for a high end camera in 2009 I very well may have gone for the NIkon D700, Nikon glass was very competitive at the time. But that's not when I entered the market, from what I can see Canon has very little competition right now, their recent lenses mop the floor with the competition (at least on the long end, we'll see what happens with the short end next year).
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If you're looking for a nice walk-around camera, sure, switching to a different company might be easy. If you want anything more specific out of your camera the number of options falls quickly, pretty much right down to 2. Compact system manufacturers simply don't have the lenses, and as I pointed out above, the nearest competitor has some catching up to do. I'm confident Canon's lens line-up can carry them for quite a while when it comes to the high end market. The real problem is cell phones.
We are on the same line here. It is CANON's leverage to its leadership's position in its amateur/pro line.
The fact is that everyone here are kind of either trying to explain me what the obvious situation here is. Or the one with customer
S & CANON's shareholders' happiness goals.
Does anyone realize that the majority of efforts here are on explaining to 2-3 individuals how we are wrong to want more and should accomodate our wish lists according to the majority of people?
When one reads this whole topic, he/she would stay with the impression that everyone's happy with CANONs doings...
For GOD's sake, wake up people! This is a RUMOR site. NOT a final TECH SPECs listing place. Stop speaking obvious facts that we all know.
Better concentrate on what you WANT!Not on EXPLAINING Canon's reasoning.
If I were from CANON's marketing dep. and read this here (and someone of you definitely is, even if as a guest) I would report that people around here
acknowledge this and that issue... but are
pretty, pretty happy - ergo could put the solution's R&D on this and that on a
lower priority level for now.
It depends on us that CANON doesn't sleep :-))))
And don't forget that you are:


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I am sorry for the pathos but got in the mood, because of that
MEGATROLL pic, which is
hilarious!

I laughed for a while quite a bit.
I have read a few quite good examples of trolling here, but alongside every once in a while maybe you are missing some good points. ;-)