7D Firmware hack progress?

[Barry_Green]

I think they will if another camera starts takeing away thier marketshare. Likely? No. But I wouldn't lay money that it won't happen.

I would definitely bet money that it won't happen. You'll see a revised 7D (7D Mark II?) before you see a firmware update that adds features to it.

And remember it was pressure from users that made them give the 5D the firmware update they got.

Y'know, I don't think so. I think it wasn't pressure from users at all. Not saying that there wasn't a clamor for it, but -- there's clamor for stuff all the time, and it never amounts to anything.

Instead, I think that what happened was they saw an opportunity to get the camera placed with a few Hollywood types, and the resulting overall image "halo" that accompanied it, that got 'em to do it. And it even shocked the president of digital imaging for Canon, who said he'd been with the company for (what... 20 years?) and he'd never seen them ever do something like that, and he would have been willing to bet money that they wouldn't do it. So the added features through a firmware update stands alone as a unique exception, certainly not as the general rule.

 

[Rick Burnett]

I have to agree with you here Barry. In the typical Canon way of business it is "Let's release another camera with SOME of these features so they will upgrade" How they've done it in the past. Just look at the incremental changes between the HV20, HV30 and HV40 and why in the HELL can they not make the EXACT same camera with just NO tape. Sorry, not Canon. All the other HF and HG models are different and NOT as good.

 

[boulder]

It's a tough thing trying to figure out Canon. They throw a few more curve-balls than most companies...those who think they have them figured out usually end up being wrong. Here's hoping.