When Canon introduced the Canon 300d, it was a revolution in that it was the first affordable digital system SLR camera. But because they had a more expensive camera, the 10d, they nurtured the 300d by not including a lot of functions. Stuff like no AI Focus except in the sports-program, no mirror lockup and other annoyances. But a russian hacker dissasembled the microcontroller code and patched the firmware thus enabling there functions. A lot of people (including me) have installed it in our cameras, and have now got a much better one. When comparing the russian firmware with Canons original, you soon realize that they only had to change a couple of bytes of code to enable this functions. This means that the code is in there, just disabled. So now Canon has stopped selling the 10d. So why not release a firmware for the 300d that enables all the feature that obviously is in there? Talk about a good way of getting loyal customers.
No, I’ll buy Canon, they are future proof.
Unfortunately companies doesn’t get it. Instead of using software to make a product as good as they can, they instead use it to hamper the functions in certain models, so not to compete with other, more expensive models. And please don’t use the “The development of the software is more expensive”, well in this case the software IS ALREADY THERE!
Anyway, Come on Canon, do the right thing. I promise that my next camera will be a Canon (probably the 20d)
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