Petition to Canon!

[lostprophet]

You forget that the Canon G-series is unique in that it is a marketed towards the very high-end P&S. It is a very small corner market (backup for pros, advanced users with a need for compacts) and difficult to sell.. (expensive compared to P&S, hard to explain to a buyer the advantages, and priced closely to lower end DSLRs) speaking from experience being on the other side of the counter. The core reason why the G7 was such a flop is that the market for these high -end P&S demanded RAW..... this is not the case for the rest of the "traditional" P&S market which JPEG is fine.

Simply put... the P&S market is geared towards the regular consumer. Filters, RAW, etc... are a hard sell in that market as they bring little value to the eyes of the regular consumer. This is really what Garbz has been saying.... the market for the SX100 doesn't see value in those features. I'd say the majority of the buyers either gravitate towards the regular P&S or towards a entry level DSLR.

The SX100 is not the same market as the G-series.

The Canon G series is one of the biggest selling compacts on the market, difficult to sell?? now thats funny, the camera sells itself! Well it has done since the G1 in the shop I work at. G7 was one of the biggest selling compacts of that time, sure it didn't sell as well as a camera at a quarter of the price but it sold like mad, in fact we still get asked for it on a weekly basis even though the G9 has been out for months.

If filters are so hard to sell in the cheaper market then why are there so many of those cheaper cameras with filter threads or the ability to put an adapter on so it will take a filter?? I'll tell you why, its because people want filters. I know because I've been selling filters etc for cheap digital compacts since the days of 640x480 being a high resolution.

No the SX100 isn't the same market as the G9 but so what?
If the higher spec cameras have the ability to use filters and the lower spec cameras have the ability to use filters there is no reason why the SX100 should not have the same ability.

 

[Garbz]

Yes read between the lines that is what I was implying. All sorts of ordinary smoes own Powershots (absolutely no offence to the OP, they are very good point and shoots). Hardly the type to ever break into the DSLR, possibly the type who aren't even willing to spend the money to get a G series powershot.

The anti-social geeks that write viruses are statistically reclusive teenagers that don't have a job and aren't doing well in highschool. Yes I am serious - they cannot afford to buy a Mac.

This is the most uninformed comment I have read in a while. I hate to tell you but the type of teenagers that don't have a job, and aren't doing well in highschool are the types of teenagers who write the types of viruses that never make it out of their home network.

You should really watch a few documentaries. Maybe even find out exactly how much money some of the guys who wrote the viruses like blaster. You'll be very surprised at their backgrounds. I remember reading about one guy who wrote a large virus a few years ago. The police seized some 40 computers, and 3 commercial DVD duplicating machines from his house. You want to know why there are so few mac viruses? It is simply not profitable to do so. You gain nothing from a virus which won't spread because the number of computers it affects is so low.

 

[usayit]

The Canon G series is one of the biggest selling compacts on the market, difficult to sell?? now thats funny, the camera sells itself! Well it has done since the G1 in the shop I work at. G7 was one of the biggest selling compacts of that time, sure it didn't sell as well as a camera at a quarter of the price but it sold like mad, in fact we still get asked for it on a weekly basis even though the G9 has been out for months.

Please quote source.

Until recently the G9 (best buy just started) did not share shelf space at any of the big box retailer stores. It was released side by side with the A650 with similar specs that consumers rate by (megapixels). The A650 goes retails for about $350 and the G9 retails for about $500. When two cameras with $150 difference and similar advertised specs share the same shelf at a regular retail store, guess which one sells. At the camera shop, sales for the G9 do sell well but they are the same enthusiasts that have seriously considered DSLRs and many still end up getting that DSLR. Their numbers pale in comparison to those looking for something very compact (Casio, Olympus, Panasonic). I don't care what you say... the G7 was not a good seller. The lack of RAW killed it... G7s sat on shelves collecting dust when the G9 was released.

For every P&S you claim has filter threads, I can name 10 that don't. None of the casio Exilim P&S have filter threads. None of the Olympus Stylus cameras have threads. None of the S and L series Nikon Coolpix have threads. Thats what about 20 cameras already?

You can argue all you want until you are blue in the face. Prove me wrong and get a petition to change Canon's ways. You are arguing against the wrong person, I'm not the CEO of Canon who makes decisions for them.

If Canon is reading this thread, (I highly doubt it) they need to release a flash pack that was intended for the G-series. 580EX and 430EX are bigger and heavier than the G9. The 220EX still dwarfs the G9's size. Again.. a difficult package to sell when the customer is looking for high-end but compact. A G9 with a 580EX attached is downright silly looking. The Nikon P5100 has a far better compact flash... extremely compact and even has a bounce head.

 

[Miaow]

You left my favourite windows off. Where's 2000. Second most stable system to date I think. My 2003 server has crashed once, and that was due to the heatsink falling off my video card. But it's not easily accessible. Fortunately our faculty provides copies to all students through some MSDN academic agreement.

ME crashed less than 98? Is that in the right order?, also remember the early classic with 95? The system would crash every 49.5 days to the second! Classic programming there!

The only problem with macs are the majority of it's users. If most of them weren't such stuckup snobs their price may even be cheaper as Job's mob notices that people are price sensitive and don't have a religious tie to the Apple logo. Remember the Macintosh II was in all the schools because it was cheaper than the IBM clones.

Also I find with Linux even without commercial support things are still pesky. So you want to play some music, install xmms. Dammit MP3s don't play. Oh I need to install libmpeg, but there's also the fraunhofer decoder, but that one says it doesn't comply with the GPL licence. What's the GPL licence and why would I care I.... stuff it I'll reboot and play this song in windows. (actually this specific situation has long been resolved but it's one example of what happened a few years ago and still happens today with plenty of other things. Back then it was mp3s, now it's HD content.)

I'm running 2000 and i can say it crashes WAY less than 1998 - if it does crash at least it gets everything back up and running, no more blue screens of death - well i had one once (on boot up) since i installed it and it was a real worry but lucky all was ok LOL

My 2000 is a little unstableat pres i think especially since i installed that stupid SP5 (roll out pack or what ever it was called) cause of AVG 8 (hmm maybe it was avg 8 thats done that :/)

I don't really like XP but i think i'm gonna have to get my BF's comp up and running soon (its better hardware) which has XP - hmm oh well the things we do to get faster systems and I can tell you my Pentium II (even through it has all the software i need on it) just cant hack it any more