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There are so many options for decent 4k & video features these days (at an unbeatable price point) that I'm no longer hoping for Canon to satisfy my requirements. The party is somewhere else now and boy is it raging! 
I'll always remember Canon fondly. The 5d II was my first proper camera and then the 5D III. Only reason I've still kept hold of it - Great stills, and great video (But only with Magic Lantern).  However I shall be selling it soon to raise money for more gear  

Bah... who cares... I’m not an investor...
Im a consumer... and I don’t see Canon producing anything of interest to me to anymore. Period.

Bah... who cares... I’m not an investor...
Im a consumer... and I don’t see Canon producing anything of interest to me to anymore. Period.

I'm just going to provide my write up here.
My shoot went from "What the fuck!?!?!?" to "Fuck it! I'm done, I don't care anymore..."
I was excited about the contest and thought, I hit gold when I got the winning bid on ebay (see pictures) - cause it was mft sensor, had 4K and it was under $200.
The lenses, I borrowed from friends and family, same with adapter.
While I was waiting for the camera to come through mail, I started scouting locations and pre-planning shots, and coming up with a mini-story in my head.
When the camera arrived, I had a solid 1.5 weeks to film and edit - I said perfect....
Thats when work (my real job) started getting busy and I was forced to take work home to complete the overloaded workload. Even then, I said... no problem.... I will just film during lunch hour, but everyday that week it was raining, and my co-worker who was willing to be the main subject of my video - he got busy and started working from home.
One production delay after another...
Now, the actual camera... I didn't know its flaws until after I purchased it, I should have looked at the reviews before even looking at this camera as a contender.... Its only 4K @ 30p no 24p, and there is zero aperture control while in video mode - so had to shoot wide open on the canon lens (and use variable ND adapter). There is no log, just 5 picture profiles, but I'm sure most here were facing that problem (if it is even a problem) - I just used standard profile. It had this flickering (modulating ISO, even when it wasn't AUTO) issue , but I figured out a work around (select Auto and then select HDR mode and call it a day). 
So, camera flaws plus production delays - then I see this shit:
So, I got Used Yi camera without lens for $175, just to find out I could have waited to get a brand-new one with lens for $150.
A day before the competition was supposed to end, I said "Fuck it" came across a parked old school taxi - filmed it for about 30 to 45 min. and editted it for another 45 min. 
Oh, by the way, did I tell you guys about how my macbook pro's audio jack was fucking up too... it was interfering with the audio speakers as well. So, I went over to my older editing computer which is still running FCP7 and some old version of Premiere.
The only thing creative I did was add "Taxi" theme song to the track... lol... I didn't even color correct it, thats SOOC.
 

Here is the problem with that argument, and many people have made that same argument.... in one version or another.
So you are are saying Canon has this "extensive market research [team] and have a large number of pros come with input" and the end product of all that is something like the EOS R or the EOS RP....
The problem with that statement is that companies like Sony, Panasonic, Fuji, Blackmagic also have extensive market research teams and pros telling them what the people want.... why is it that they are able to turn out stuff like the a7III, S1/S1H, XT3, P6K???
 
 
 

If we are using anecdotal evidence here... I went to Center Island (here in Toronto) about 2 weeks ago... and I saw zero Canon or Nikon, but I did see 2 Sony a7 cameras and 1 olympus... about 1 month ago when I visited Niagara Falls, Ontario with the family.... I saw 2 Canons, 1 Nikon and 1 Fuji.... with those kind of evidences, I predict that given that these are high traffic tourist areas, people are dumping their Canons/Nikons/Fujis for Sonys and olympus camera within a 2 week period.

Just don’t buy their crap cameras if video specs are important to you. Moving on. 

Yeah wow, great move, much smart. How dumb are Sony, Panasonic, Fujifilm & Nikon, eh?! WHAHAHA
Oh, c'mon. Just stop the bullcrap excuses. 'The omiting thing is a tradition. It’s a habit.' Well, yup. In the sense that it's Canon being Canon.
Canon be like: lol, we be crippling them cameras like there's no tomorrow...

... and they still fucking buy 'em! OMFG! xD
The enablers are to blame here. I'd be gloating too... it's like taking candy from a baby and them not minding getting spit in the face.

I'm just going to provide my write up here.
My shoot went from "What the fuck!?!?!?" to "Fuck it! I'm done, I don't care anymore..."
I was excited about the contest and thought, I hit gold when I got the winning bid on ebay (see pictures) - cause it was mft sensor, had 4K and it was under $200.
The lenses, I borrowed from friends and family, same with adapter.
While I was waiting for the camera to come through mail, I started scouting locations and pre-planning shots, and coming up with a mini-story in my head.
When the camera arrived, I had a solid 1.5 weeks to film and edit - I said perfect....
Thats when work (my real job) started getting busy and I was forced to take work home to complete the overloaded workload. Even then, I said... no problem.... I will just film during lunch hour, but everyday that week it was raining, and my co-worker who was willing to be the main subject of my video - he got busy and started working from home.
One production delay after another...
Now, the actual camera... I didn't know its flaws until after I purchased it, I should have looked at the reviews before even looking at this camera as a contender.... Its only 4K @ 30p no 24p, and there is zero aperture control while in video mode - so had to shoot wide open on the canon lens (and use variable ND adapter). There is no log, just 5 picture profiles, but I'm sure most here were facing that problem (if it is even a problem) - I just used standard profile. It had this flickering (modulating ISO, even when it wasn't AUTO) issue , but I figured out a work around (select Auto and then select HDR mode and call it a day). 
So, camera flaws plus production delays - then I see this shit:
So, I got Used Yi camera without lens for $175, just to find out I could have waited to get a brand-new one with lens for $150.
A day before the competition was supposed to end, I said "Fuck it" came across a parked old school taxi - filmed it for about 30 to 45 min. and editted it for another 45 min. 
Oh, by the way, did I tell you guys about how my macbook pro's audio jack was fucking up too... it was interfering with the audio speakers as well. So, I went over to my older editing computer which is still running FCP7 and some old version of Premiere.
The only thing creative I did was add "Taxi" theme song to the track... lol... I didn't even color correct it, thats SOOC.
 

I'm just going to provide my write up here.
My shoot went from "What the fuck!?!?!?" to "Fuck it! I'm done, I don't care anymore..."
I was excited about the contest and thought, I hit gold when I got the winning bid on ebay (see pictures) - cause it was mft sensor, had 4K and it was under $200.
The lenses, I borrowed from friends and family, same with adapter.
While I was waiting for the camera to come through mail, I started scouting locations and pre-planning shots, and coming up with a mini-story in my head.
When the camera arrived, I had a solid 1.5 weeks to film and edit - I said perfect....
Thats when work (my real job) started getting busy and I was forced to take work home to complete the overloaded workload. Even then, I said... no problem.... I will just film during lunch hour, but everyday that week it was raining, and my co-worker who was willing to be the main subject of my video - he got busy and started working from home.
One production delay after another...
Now, the actual camera... I didn't know its flaws until after I purchased it, I should have looked at the reviews before even looking at this camera as a contender.... Its only 4K @ 30p no 24p, and there is zero aperture control while in video mode - so had to shoot wide open on the canon lens (and use variable ND adapter). There is no log, just 5 picture profiles, but I'm sure most here were facing that problem (if it is even a problem) - I just used standard profile. It had this flickering (modulating ISO, even when it wasn't AUTO) issue , but I figured out a work around (select Auto and then select HDR mode and call it a day). 
So, camera flaws plus production delays - then I see this shit:
So, I got Used Yi camera without lens for $175, just to find out I could have waited to get a brand-new one with lens for $150.
A day before the competition was supposed to end, I said "Fuck it" came across a parked old school taxi - filmed it for about 30 to 45 min. and editted it for another 45 min. 
Oh, by the way, did I tell you guys about how my macbook pro's audio jack was fucking up too... it was interfering with the audio speakers as well. So, I went over to my older editing computer which is still running FCP7 and some old version of Premiere.
The only thing creative I did was add "Taxi" theme song to the track... lol... I didn't even color correct it, thats SOOC.
 

I'm just going to provide my write up here.
My shoot went from "What the fuck!?!?!?" to "Fuck it! I'm done, I don't care anymore..."
I was excited about the contest and thought, I hit gold when I got the winning bid on ebay (see pictures) - cause it was mft sensor, had 4K and it was under $200.
The lenses, I borrowed from friends and family, same with adapter.
While I was waiting for the camera to come through mail, I started scouting locations and pre-planning shots, and coming up with a mini-story in my head.
When the camera arrived, I had a solid 1.5 weeks to film and edit - I said perfect....
Thats when work (my real job) started getting busy and I was forced to take work home to complete the overloaded workload. Even then, I said... no problem.... I will just film during lunch hour, but everyday that week it was raining, and my co-worker who was willing to be the main subject of my video - he got busy and started working from home.
One production delay after another...
Now, the actual camera... I didn't know its flaws until after I purchased it, I should have looked at the reviews before even looking at this camera as a contender.... Its only 4K @ 30p no 24p, and there is zero aperture control while in video mode - so had to shoot wide open on the canon lens (and use variable ND adapter). There is no log, just 5 picture profiles, but I'm sure most here were facing that problem (if it is even a problem) - I just used standard profile. It had this flickering (modulating ISO, even when it wasn't AUTO) issue , but I figured out a work around (select Auto and then select HDR mode and call it a day). 
So, camera flaws plus production delays - then I see this shit:
So, I got Used Yi camera without lens for $175, just to find out I could have waited to get a brand-new one with lens for $150.
A day before the competition was supposed to end, I said "Fuck it" came across a parked old school taxi - filmed it for about 30 to 45 min. and editted it for another 45 min. 
Oh, by the way, did I tell you guys about how my macbook pro's audio jack was fucking up too... it was interfering with the audio speakers as well. So, I went over to my older editing computer which is still running FCP7 and some old version of Premiere.
The only thing creative I did was add "Taxi" theme song to the track... lol... I didn't even color correct it, thats SOOC.
 

I'm just going to provide my write up here.
My shoot went from "What the fuck!?!?!?" to "Fuck it! I'm done, I don't care anymore..."
I was excited about the contest and thought, I hit gold when I got the winning bid on ebay (see pictures) - cause it was mft sensor, had 4K and it was under $200.
The lenses, I borrowed from friends and family, same with adapter.
While I was waiting for the camera to come through mail, I started scouting locations and pre-planning shots, and coming up with a mini-story in my head.
When the camera arrived, I had a solid 1.5 weeks to film and edit - I said perfect....
Thats when work (my real job) started getting busy and I was forced to take work home to complete the overloaded workload. Even then, I said... no problem.... I will just film during lunch hour, but everyday that week it was raining, and my co-worker who was willing to be the main subject of my video - he got busy and started working from home.
One production delay after another...
Now, the actual camera... I didn't know its flaws until after I purchased it, I should have looked at the reviews before even looking at this camera as a contender.... Its only 4K @ 30p no 24p, and there is zero aperture control while in video mode - so had to shoot wide open on the canon lens (and use variable ND adapter). There is no log, just 5 picture profiles, but I'm sure most here were facing that problem (if it is even a problem) - I just used standard profile. It had this flickering (modulating ISO, even when it wasn't AUTO) issue , but I figured out a work around (select Auto and then select HDR mode and call it a day). 
So, camera flaws plus production delays - then I see this shit:
So, I got Used Yi camera without lens for $175, just to find out I could have waited to get a brand-new one with lens for $150.
A day before the competition was supposed to end, I said "Fuck it" came across a parked old school taxi - filmed it for about 30 to 45 min. and editted it for another 45 min. 
Oh, by the way, did I tell you guys about how my macbook pro's audio jack was fucking up too... it was interfering with the audio speakers as well. So, I went over to my older editing computer which is still running FCP7 and some old version of Premiere.
The only thing creative I did was add "Taxi" theme song to the track... lol... I didn't even color correct it, thats SOOC.
 

Guys give it a break and write a film ffs!

I watched The Godfather (again) recently. This film probably has as much detail as a poor 720p camera. The highlights are often blown out and it looks like the dynamic range of that film is no more than 6-8 stops. It is yellow as fuck.
And still, it's a beautiful movie. And almost everyone agrees.
I realised that, including for myself, this obsession with gear, pixel peeping and resolution is a race to the creative bottom.

Just go do it... you’ll have fun!

That would be a mistake. The market for stills is excellent as it is. You have megapixels, you have speed, great AF for cheap. Video is the battlefield.

You know what's really sad... It's not the Canon brand itself it's the little people in this forum (some of other forums) and especially Canon rumors....
People kept saying Canon is doomed...
To most respect, they aren't... although, it's blatantly obvious that they may be... But they are not... Cause they are just positioning themselves to just plain move out of the segment altogether. 
Which, would make their gear relatively like the NX1... Samsung isn’t doomed, but those that believed in them... are left stranded. If you are reading this... and you are reading this now... start jumping ship!!!

Wow! I missed that completely back then, but I shot quite a lot of projects with the VG series of cameras. I hated them, they were ergonomical nightmares, but very interesting concepts at the time.
Still believe that the best ergonomics for a small but capable video camera would be based on a Canon XC10/15. You can add a shoulder pad on almost anything these days.

Here is mine:
 

Neat looking old car. I like all the focus usage. Cool Beans.

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I have nothing against it. If a camera can handle 8k it means it can handle every other smaller resolutions at higher framerate and bitrate. I can even imagine using 8k myself once in a year to do a smooth dolly zoom effect

Haha... another hopeful...
The enthusiast crowd are very vocal, but Canon knows that its all talk and no walk...
Their bread and butter are consumers... and who do the Consumers follow??? The pros...
Even if the enthusiasts were able to sway the pros or the general publics opinion, then you get some crippled version of what what we really want.... only 4K/24p with 1.5 crop.... no 1080/24p.... no 1080/120.... so and so forth. Just look at the RP as an example... its not going to be better than that...

Haha... another hopeful...
The enthusiast crowd are very vocal, but Canon knows that its all talk and no walk...
Their bread and butter are consumers... and who do the Consumers follow??? The pros...
Even if the enthusiasts were able to sway the pros or the general publics opinion, then you get some crippled version of what what we really want.... only 4K/24p with 1.5 crop.... no 1080/24p.... no 1080/120.... so and so forth. Just look at the RP as an example... its not going to be better than that...

Haha... another hopeful...
The enthusiast crowd are very vocal, but Canon knows that its all talk and no walk...
Their bread and butter are consumers... and who do the Consumers follow??? The pros...
Even if the enthusiasts were able to sway the pros or the general publics opinion, then you get some crippled version of what what we really want.... only 4K/24p with 1.5 crop.... no 1080/24p.... no 1080/120.... so and so forth. Just look at the RP as an example... its not going to be better than that...