Maybe some day in the future......but I thinks it's worth noting that Canon is soo protective of the image, the glass, etc, that I feel it might be a bit of a trust issue in that they are slowly understanding there are qualified outside people that can do the change. Its not just a money issue......just my opinion.
I don't think we are going to see production line prototypes until the first part of November. I'm pretty sure they have some ASC types wrestling over who gets to shoot first. We are planning a Saturday seminar where we can show more footage and have all the key Canon people here to show off the C700. Also, Canon is going to be more aggressive in getting us dealers our demo camera sooner vs. later and we will be adding cameras to our rental stock.
Good question...and I don't know, not explained to me...if I was to guess and please chime in here, could it have something to do with the EF and the communication between cameras and lenses? or DPAF and how it works? I could easily see Canon not wanting to compromise ANY of the auto focus functions they have worked so hard to create. The DPAF does have a whole second set of pixels so it "triangulates" the distance to the object so to speak.....again, I'm guessing here.
