Secret47

Why have you polarized your digital camera lineup so? You have ten dozen consumer point and shoot models and three full featured cameras for $800 or less. Only one of them supports RAW capture. I used to like you Canon, you always make great hardware, good lenses (with the exception of your kit Digital Rebel lenses, which are crap), and the end result spat out by your Digic processors is always good. While that's all fine and dandy, believe it or not there is a market out there for cameras with RAW mode that aren't SLR's. You can try to justify it by saying there's no difference in quality, but that's not what RAW is about. It's about control, it's about having raw data with no interpretation, no matter how good that interpretation may be. You're taking that away from consumers like me, consumers that don't absolutely need an SLR, but want the ability to interpret their own images in the digital dark room. I won't be buying another Canon unless your Digital Rebel gets a better lens and the holes in its feature set are filled (no spot metering? why? my SD630 has spot metering!). If I wanted a full-feature camera for $800 or less right now, I'd buy a Nikon D40 (or the D40x if it was out now). You've lost my business Canon, and I'm far from alone.

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I sent this off to Canon. They'll ignore me just like any other big company, but I had to anyway.

Apparently they've had so many complaints about this they have a cut and paste reply specifically for it. Note the characteristic bad formatting.

Quote:Thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts with us.

Although this is not a site that we officially endorse, I found

an article online that I personally found helpful, and it might be
useful to you. It does include some comments from Chuck

Westfall, our director of Media and Customer Relations, which is the
primary reason why I'm mentioning it here:

http://news.com.com/2061-10801_3-6139374.html

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Thank you for considering Canon.

Sincerely,

Nick
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I bought a powershot last week.


I have my D50 too.

Which model? As I said they have about ten dozen of them.