Usually for electronic goods manufacturing cost to selling prices ratio are between 3 to 4 but I don't know if it applies to cameras.
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Everything We’ve Been Told About The Canon EOS R7 Mark II
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I've noticed this for myself when I can get reasonably close, but I also consider myself quite terrible. Typically, a perched bird suddenly flies off and I can't turn fast enough or even worse: I decide the bird is happy where it is, move the camera to relax my eye and that will be the moment the bird flies off.
As poorly skilled as I am, according to the article, I'd be a birders. I'd never thought it before, but yes, I will actively look for birds when I hear them even if I don't have anything more than a phone at that moment. Knowing the likelihood of capturing a good image with the phone is near zero, I'll try anyway.
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So your opinion about a pub test might be as poor as your understanding of how polling is conducted?
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I have been in lots of pubs but you don’t have to drink there to understand the ‘pub test’. I understand the maths in polling but also very cognizant of their limitations especially prior to political elections but that is a side issue.
Can we let it go now?
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Not to prolong this, but just to add something I've just learned. Apparently, the "pub test" is an Australianism, reputedly introduced by your former Prime Minister, John Howard. Here's some choice ones we could slip in to confuse the Yanks: https://www.yha.com.au/travel-and-tours/traveller-stories/20-aussie-slang-phrases-you-need-to-know/
So, good onya, David!
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Very well said. Though a good number of birders spend hundreds or even thousands on binoculars and spotting scopes. If you can convince some of that subset to pick up a camera and a long lens you have a new customer. It's just making the sale that has to be done.
I'm unsure if Canon wants to try to encourage birders to pick up cameras, though from a sales perspective it wouldn't be a bad idea to table at some of the birding get togethers such as the Cape May Fall or Cape May Spring festival. OM system had a table last year at the fall festival.
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The 7D and 7DII were amazing sports & wildlife cameras. Rugged metal bodies and features on par or close to the top of the line 1D cameras of the time. I'd love an R camera in the same spirit. The R7 certainly did not feel that way to me.
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DigitalCameraWorld Review of the Canon C50: "Speaking of the sensor, it’s a completely new one that’s been designed specifically for this camera. While it’s not a stacked design, its readout speed is fast enough for the camera to eschew a mechanical shutter entirely. This is evidenced both by the video framerates, which go up to full-width 4K 120p and 2K 180p in HFR mode, as well as the 40fps continuous shooting offered in stills mode."
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Getting a quarter of the population to fill out a survey is not the way surveys are done. A representative sample of the population is chosen and surveyed. The percentage of the sample is then applied to the entire population. All polls are done this way and the accuracy is typically pretty good. Manufacturing QC is typically done in a similar way with a periodic sampling of units. Again, the error rate is typically quite low.
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Yep, I got the maths but it is a massive claim to make and polls can have limitations…. Does the 96m sound right to you?
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Yep, I got the maths but it is a massive claim to make and polls can have limitations…. Does the 96m sound right to you?
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Quick Google - he is right
Imagine that. A government agency needing to justify its budget allotments doing everything they can to stretch the numbers in their favor?
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Everything? So you also shoot motorsports, commercial advertising, field sports, hard news, weather, studio portraiture, weddings, concerts, theatrical, bar bands, underwater, aviation, etc????
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There's no way they got 96M respondents to a survey. They're taking a small sample size that was gathered and extrapolating the results. The problem is that the sample was almost certainly not a random one. Most of the respondents probably saw a link to the survey ON A BIRDING ORIENTED website.
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Put it this way. If you go to a bar to conduct a survey of what percentage of the population in a locale drinks alcoholic beverages, what to you think the results will be? Will they be representative of the entire population? Including those who would never darken the door of a bar?
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The 1-in-3 number first quoted included those who only did home observing (less than 1 mile from where they live). For those who travelled at least one mile, the number is slightly less than half as many. By their own definition, a "birder" is someone who looks out the kitchen window while washing dishes and says, "I wonder what kind of bird that was that just flew by?"
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Sorry. For someone that does leave the house with a camera to take photos of birds, this made me laugh.
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The 7D Mark II was everything the 7D should have been. I shot field sports with the 7D for three years and had stopped using it in favor of a 5D Mark III which had much more consistent AF performance than the 7D. This meant using an older 5D Mark II instead of the Mark III for wide angle shots when shooting sports. The 5D Mark II has the same issue with AF inconsistency, but at wider angles and closer distances, slightly missed AF makes less of a difference. Plus I was shooting 1,500+ telephoto frames and a few dozen wide angle frames per game.
The original 7D had an Achilles heel with regard to frame-to-frame AF inconsistency, even in One Shot mode from a tripod shooting at stationary standardized targets. Let's not even talk about AI Servo and moving targets. My keeper rate with the 7D Mark II was much higher than with the original 7D using the same EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS II lens. Roger Cicala agrees.
He also said the 7D Mark II has much better weather resistance than the original 7D.
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