Please let us know what is affected with which items so that those of us that still have any warranty left can have fixes done. What Canon and manufacturers of other items don't understand is that even if we don't see an issue with our product, it doesn't mean it isn't defective or might display the issue at some point in time. Not to many things burn me more than a manufacturer being aware of an issue that could bite a consumer today or tomorrow or next week. Hiding the fact in the hopes that warranties will run their course so that fixes will be done at our expense and inconvenience is unacceptable but the trend today by so many manufacturers of various products. So many products today are made of hundreds and even thousands of parts that have to work together properly. Errors will unfortunately be made. The manufacturer that fesses up quickly and rectifies problems garners loyalty to their product like no other. Those that knowingly and conveniently ignore issues at our expense face the ire of the masses as well as obscurity. That said, unfortunately companies eyeball their bottom line and find it's more cost effective to ignore the problem as long as possible and fix things if and when forced to. As well, as consumers, we're often faced with most manufacturers signing this same tune. Do I dump brand A to go to brand B when brand A takes me for a ride when brand B has been treating their customers in the same manner? Case in point...auto manufacturers. So we can't switch brands and the alternative left to us is to hope for whistle blowers to let us know what's going on and hope someone has teeth to force manufacturers to do what they ought to have done in the first place.
Whew. That all said, please let us know what you know about the Canon products. And, please be careful you don't get yourself in trouble for publishing these if you do so.