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Ray, Yes, I wonder why they think 20 new models will help their market penetration…unless they offer significant performance/price improvements. I would think they would be better off concentrating their efforts on a smaller number of models…but then, I’m not in the camera manufacturing or marketing business. Canon is a very successful company with very impressive products. I think their products compare very favorbly with Nikon’s, across the product lines. Bert
I agree with you, their brand recognition must be very high. What this article didn’t say is that, probably, a few of their existing models will be discontinued. And that perhaps, the new ones, will come with USB 2.0 or FireWire. This would be a significant change.
I noticed that article also stated Canon wants to push their small photo printers. My guess is that many of those new models will be consumer level – hitting at the people like my cousin who want a very simple process through which they can take a photo and print immediately.
I agree, Ray. My printer will print directly from a card, but I’ve never put one in there. All of mine need some cropping – which I want to control, and they usually need color correction of some sort, too. And how would I know if I even wanted to print it without viewing it first on a decent sized screen? Sometimes what looks OK on the LCD sure isn’t anything I want when I get a good look at it! However, there are a lot of people who get a bang out of direct prints. That doesn’t appeal to me, because I’m not a good enough picture taker. 🙂
That doesn’t appeal to me, because I’m not a good enough picture taker.
Fiddle dee dee, Beth, I’ve seen your wolves.
I agree. I don’t see the appeal of this. Most of the people I know who think digital cameras aren’t worth much would just get reinforcement in that idea if they printed that way.
But then again, I know a lot of people who don’t have computers who think they want a digital camera (duh!) and I guess they’d be happy to do it that way.
I think a lot of people just don’t "get it" when it comes to digital cameras and digital image processing. They don’t realize what is possible, so they just expect the usual pile of mediocre 4×6 prints that they get from their film developer. It’s really a shame, because they aren’t getting the benefits of the technology they are paying for. Bert
Well thank you, Barbara, but my wolves are a prime example of why I need a good editing program and wouldn’t want to print the image as it comes from the camera! 🙂 And I hope Canon includes a nice high res point and shoot for people like me in their new lineup, too. One drawback to all of this "learning" I’ve been exposed to on the forum is the realization that any decent picture I might produce will be because of my ability to edit, not because of my ability to compose a shot. I’m definitely a better genealogist than I am a photographer.
any decent picture I might produce will be because of my ability to edit, not because of my ability to compose a shot
Well, there are a lot of highly successful pros who would have to say the same about some of their most effective photos if they were being honest about it.
I certainly fall in that category too. Once in a while, I "luck out" but I am not very good at visualizing a photo when I look at a scene. That’s why I love digital cameras so much, because I can just shoot and shoot, and something always seems to turn out to be worth saving, especially after the magic of Photoshop is applied. Bert
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