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Where are the forums?
I had a love/hate with the forums. I think the forums could work on this site if done properly…. they weren’t.

I will bring the forums back when they can tie in better with WordPress, there needs to be some automation. Lots of people here want to discuss stuff and have some fun on forums.

I promise they’ll be back and 100 times better.

The downside? Everything currently on them will probably not be migrated over. I’ll do my best though.

ETA for the forums to come back? Sometime in the next 60 days.

Canon EOS 700D
It’s rare I get a good Photoshop job that I actually want to share on the site, but I liked this submission from Jan.

EOS 700D Concept by Jan | Click for larger

I love the scrollwheel!

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  • Nice!

    The thumbwheel + direction pad combo is a nice throwback to the Elan 7’s. Does it seem to also have a joystick in the upper portion?

    I’d hit it.

  • Agreed – BBPress integrated with WordPress would make things extremely easy. There are also other integrations with WordPress from phpBB and other forum packages.

    I’ve had experience with a few of these and would be happy to help get the new forums running.

  • For the European name, I’ll agree with the EOS 700D suggested

    For the American name, I propose the EOS Rebel E7i (after the ELAN 7)

    For Japan, the EOS Kiss W (for “Wheel”)

  • I can’t adequately express how grateful I

    am for your Canon rumors site.

    You do a fabulous job of research to keep

    us freeloaders excited about equipment.

    (Canon should be paying you big bucks !!!)

    I have one thought about your stellar

    predictions on lenses: it would be so

    cheap to upgrade the 100-400 and Canon

    would get the excitement of a “whole new”

    product for a few thousand $ in engineering

    and testing.

    best wishes.

  • Whoops – I pressed the send key

    by accident. I intended to write —

    It would be so cheap to upgrade the 100-400

    IS to the latest version and then Canon

    would get the excitement of a “whole new”

    product for a mere few thousand $ in engineering

    and testing. Plus thew 100-400 IS (pun intended)

    missing from the canon price list …

    best wishes.

  • I like the thumb dial/direction pad combo, so here’s some flight ‘o’ fancy for you:

    The use of the thumb dial control with the direction pad, but use some sort of small screen on each button to display different functions, so it could be fully customizable, and you could save different sets, and just pick the set that fits the situation, and then, if necessary, customize it on the fly, or it could change according to those stupid programed scene modes. But you have to admit, that would be sweet to see in a future professional model.

  • Why no back-light buttons ? Very usefull in low light conditions… my low-cost-cell-phone had some.

    And always: 24-70mm f/2.8 L IS

  • It’s the jog dial used in the XXDs for quick selection of AF points. I loved it, when I used a 20D once.

  • I’d love my Elan 7E’s body with my 450D’s guts.

    The grip on the 450D sucks.

  • Go and buy a 50D then? It seems to me as if the Elan 7E is more sized like a XXD rather than a XXXD?

  • That rss option on your site here is splendid, you should tell more folks about it in your next post. I haven’t noted it a first, now I’m using it each morning to check on any updates. I’m on a real slow dial-up link in Brazil and it’s rather baffling to sit there and wait for such a long time ’til the page loads… but hey, I just found your rss page and added it to the Google Reader and there you are… I’m always up-to-date! Well buddy, keep up the good work and make that rss button a little bigger so that other people can enjoy that as well :-P

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