what's up with Nikon?

"Bruce Murphy" wrote in message
...
"leo" writes:

Canon announces their new products a month, or two at the most, before
they
appear in the market. Nikon's doing the FUD more than half a year away,
like
the D70 and now the D2X.

Are you perhaps forgetting the Canon DO lenses?

B


I don't know the story of the DO lenses but possibly due to production
problem. It's different from Nikon's situation. I think there were no
competition for the DO lenses so there's no need to use FUD tactics.

"Bruce Murphy" wrote in message
...
"leo" writes:

Canon announces their new products a month, or two at the most, before
they
appear in the market. Nikon's doing the FUD more than half a year away,
like
the D70 and now the D2X.

Are you perhaps forgetting the Canon DO lenses?

The difference there is... there was ZERO competition for a product like
that at the time. You can't claim Canon was trying to "intercept"
competition because there was (and still is) none in terms of DO lenses.
Interestingly, Nikon has taken after Canon to a degree by creating a DO type
lens adapter for some of their digital point-and-shoots. This...along with
adopting a CMOS sensor for their new flagship DSLR...
Canon, on the other hand, is copying Nikon's idea of wireless data
transmission from DSLRs. There will always be copying going on, but it
seems that Nikon keeps finding itself in "catch-up" mode.

"Bruce Murphy" wrote in message
...
"leo" writes:

Canon announces their new products a month, or two at the most, before
they
appear in the market. Nikon's doing the FUD more than half a year away,
like
the D70 and now the D2X.

Are you perhaps forgetting the Canon DO lenses?

The difference there is... there was ZERO competition for a product like
that at the time. You can't claim Canon was trying to "intercept"
competition because there was (and still is) none in terms of DO lenses.
Interestingly, Nikon has taken after Canon to a degree by creating a DO type
lens adapter for some of their digital point-and-shoots. This...along with
adopting a CMOS sensor for their new flagship DSLR...
Canon, on the other hand, is copying Nikon's idea of wireless data
transmission from DSLRs. There will always be copying going on, but it
seems that Nikon keeps finding itself in "catch-up" mode.

"Bruce Murphy" wrote in message
...
"leo" writes:

Canon announces their new products a month, or two at the most, before
they
appear in the market. Nikon's doing the FUD more than half a year away,
like
the D70 and now the D2X.

Are you perhaps forgetting the Canon DO lenses?

The difference there is... there was ZERO competition for a product like
that at the time. You can't claim Canon was trying to "intercept"
competition because there was (and still is) none in terms of DO lenses.
Interestingly, Nikon has taken after Canon to a degree by creating a DO type
lens adapter for some of their digital point-and-shoots. This...along with
adopting a CMOS sensor for their new flagship DSLR...
Canon, on the other hand, is copying Nikon's idea of wireless data
transmission from DSLRs. There will always be copying going on, but it
seems that Nikon keeps finding itself in "catch-up" mode.

"Bruce Murphy" wrote in message
...
"leo" writes:

Canon announces their new products a month, or two at the most, before
they
appear in the market. Nikon's doing the FUD more than half a year away,
like
the D70 and now the D2X.

Are you perhaps forgetting the Canon DO lenses?

The difference there is... there was ZERO competition for a product like
that at the time. You can't claim Canon was trying to "intercept"
competition because there was (and still is) none in terms of DO lenses.
Interestingly, Nikon has taken after Canon to a degree by creating a DO type
lens adapter for some of their digital point-and-shoots. This...along with
adopting a CMOS sensor for their new flagship DSLR...
Canon, on the other hand, is copying Nikon's idea of wireless data
transmission from DSLRs. There will always be copying going on, but it
seems that Nikon keeps finding itself in "catch-up" mode.

Mark M choreographed a chorus line of high-kicking electrons to spell
out:

Come on Nikon! I'm pulling for ya!

Again, at least part of that is because it'll compel the nice Canon
stuff to be a little less expensive

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Mark M choreographed a chorus line of high-kicking electrons to spell
out:

Come on Nikon! I'm pulling for ya!

Again, at least part of that is because it'll compel the nice Canon
stuff to be a little less expensive

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______________A L L D O N E ! B Y E B Y E !_________________
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| (__ * _ _ _ _ internetworked worldwide at the speed of light.
| __)|| | |(_)| \ *This* is progress?" --J. Shinal

"Tony" wrote in message
. com...
Attempting to head off the loss of customers to Canon. Sort of a - "Hey
guys - if you just hold on, we'll be here pretty soon."
Like the new professional sports/news camera Nikon just announced last
week in time for the 2004 Summer Olympics, so all those Nikon pros can
catch --- Ooops! I guess that one is for the 2006 Winter Olympics.

Well Tony, nothing's changed has it? Whatever, whenever Nikon does
anything, it's trivial compared to the much idolized Canon. It's like Canon
people are only concerned about who is perceived to be #1. Kind of like the
attitude of some Americans who feel America is #1 and nobody, but nobody
should dream of disputing this. Despite your gloomy and negative
predictions about Nikon and its formidable new professional camera, I'll
wager Nikon will do quite well with it. I'd love to have it, and since it
will most likely be considerably less money than Canon's newest offering of
the month, it has a much greater chance of getting into my bag. Not taking
anything away from Canon, but it wears rather thin when Nikon announces a
truly great new camera, and all we get from you is....YAWN, who cares my
Canons will always be better.

"Tony" wrote in message
. com...
Attempting to head off the loss of customers to Canon. Sort of a - "Hey
guys - if you just hold on, we'll be here pretty soon."
Like the new professional sports/news camera Nikon just announced last
week in time for the 2004 Summer Olympics, so all those Nikon pros can
catch --- Ooops! I guess that one is for the 2006 Winter Olympics.

Well Tony, nothing's changed has it? Whatever, whenever Nikon does
anything, it's trivial compared to the much idolized Canon. It's like Canon
people are only concerned about who is perceived to be #1. Kind of like the
attitude of some Americans who feel America is #1 and nobody, but nobody
should dream of disputing this. Despite your gloomy and negative
predictions about Nikon and its formidable new professional camera, I'll
wager Nikon will do quite well with it. I'd love to have it, and since it
will most likely be considerably less money than Canon's newest offering of
the month, it has a much greater chance of getting into my bag. Not taking
anything away from Canon, but it wears rather thin when Nikon announces a
truly great new camera, and all we get from you is....YAWN, who cares my
Canons will always be better.

On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 21:46:09 -0700, Mark M wrote:

The difference there is... there was ZERO competition for a product like
that at the time. You can't claim Canon was trying to "intercept"
competition because there was (and still is) none in terms of DO lenses.
Interestingly, Nikon has taken after Canon to a degree by creating a DO
type lens adapter for some of their digital point-and-shoots.
This...along with adopting a CMOS sensor for their new flagship DSLR...
Canon, on the other hand, is copying Nikon's idea of wireless data
transmission from DSLRs. There will always be copying going on, but it
seems that Nikon keeps finding itself in "catch-up" mode.

And the probelm with that is exactly what?

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