They can, as my M6II does, but that doesn’t do anything about leaking or swelling of that CMOS battery.
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Canon Service Life for Cameras & Lenses Update
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The EF 300mm f/2.8ii has another 3 years to go. Until a couple of days ago, WEX had 11 used copies on sale and they had been there for ages. Suddenly, they are all gone and MPB has 11 copies. I've noticed before something similar with lenses languishing on the WEX site. I wonder if they have an internal EOL policy for used lenses that don't sell and they move them on at knockdown prices?
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It doesn't do that on my M6II, it only looses its point in time, all the other settings are saved to flash both every time you change something and when you power off the camera.
The things that illustrates how Canon is so not a software company is that when you loose the date and it resets to 01-01-2000, but you do have an active connection to your phone for geo-tagging, it will add the GPS coordinates, but not the proper date. And GPS coordinates are calculated by comparing timestamp latency...
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Yeah, things like that are annoying. When daylight saving / summer time starts or stops, for the first day or so my car's clock updates when my phone is connected via CarPlay, but goes back to being an hour off when the phone is not connected because it's setting the time from the infotainment satellite connection but not the GPS data, even though it has GPS.
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I had it...and I don't miss it
It was very soft wide open on the long end, to the point where I could get sharper results by cropping from my EF 24-70mm f/2.8 II - I'm not joking, I tested that once.
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I think there are caveats regarding “if parts are available”. Some people have reported that Canon could not repair their 1v.
However, an official Canon repair centre was able to fix the mirror issue on my 1n, sourcing the original electro magnet (the most common cause of a 1n failure) from Canon themselves.
I believe Canon have a green, amber, red “traffic light” system for parts, though I don’t know what amber and red mean in reality. Many years ago the manual / AF switch on a very old EF 20-35L broke. It’s a lens decades out of production but the part was “amber” and it was eventually repaired by an agent.
My biggest worry with older gear now is that here in the UK at least, these independent authorised Canon repair centres are dropping like flies, so I have much less confidence in getting obsolete gear repaired now than I used to have.
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Canon are clearly quitting service on the 5DS fifteen months earlier than the SR to make a point to those of us who bought the S to save 300 quid !
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Maybe you got a bad copy; mine I'd say it's plenty sharp on a moderate mpx FF camera.
I don't have 100iso examples because I only use my 70-200 in low light at weddings or at recitals, but I wouldn't call the following 100% crop, shot at 200m f2.8 at 800iso with a 6D, even handheld at 1/160s so slightly below the security shutter time, "very soft" by any means (example is of course unretouched), I can count the pores on the groom's nose.
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Yeah that's over 100% zoom, for a 20MP file.
I think mine was worse. Your photograph seems to be focused on the nose. I'd say my lens, viewed at 100%, had about the level of detail you have on his moustache. There was always some haze wide open.
I used it with my 80D, 6D Mark II and R6, but mostly with the R6.
Stopping down would get me sharper results, but I had 2.8s for the light, so...no good.
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