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August 30th, 2005, 09:10 AM | #16 | |
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August 31st, 2005, 02:57 AM | #17 | |
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It arrived this morning (sadly I'm at work), so I'll give it a whirl tonight. |
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August 31st, 2005, 06:56 PM | #18 | |
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Interesting, Marty. Mine comes nowhere close to my head. Is it posible Canon did a re-design on the brackets of later model XL2's? If they got rid of the "film grain" button and effect and fixed that firewire problem they had with the earlier models anything is possible. I'd say the BP-945 is at least 4-5 inches from my head. Hmmm...maybe I just have a tiny -ss head. Oh, well. |
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Nick, then you should have an old model, right?
Because indeed, Canon said they would bring out new models without the grain button. Not that it's a big difference, though. |
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I think it's definitely grounds (if it matters to you) to take it back and ask for a newer style unit. I don't want to alarm you but only suggest this because some (not all) of the earlier XL2s had some kind of a master fuse problem when plugging/unplugging the firewire cable or connecting certain accessories with the camera powered up. The cases were fairly isolated, but...you never know. |
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FWIW, my XL2 was among the very first batch sold in the US upon release of the camera. Works great...although I've never used the film grain button so can't verify that feature! ;-)
True, manufacturers always reserve the right to update their products as they see fit, but I have heard nothing of any other design changes to the XL2. A rare few people have reported fuse problems, either with the camera body or a lens, but not enough that it was clear to us out in end-user-land whether or not it was a design problem or simply misfortune. Has there been an announcement or other objective indication that Canon has changed anything other than removing the film grain button? If so, please advise us, because based on what I know at present, I wouldn't care whether I got a camera with or without a film grain button.
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September 1st, 2005, 07:41 PM | #24 | |
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Yeah, the film grain button isn't the issue at all. It would just concern me a little to think it could potentially have the firewire problem. But as stated in my previous post and echoed by yourself. It was a seemingly isolated incident that has seemed to go away. I think there's something interesting, though, about Nick recently buying an incarnation of the XL2 that hasn't been manufactured in a very long time. Makes me wonder if Canon had problems moving the XL2 because of the very high sales of the DVX100A? Sad, actually, as I much prefer my XL2. It is indeed a sweet instrument. |
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Congrats on the new purchase, Nick. I'm sure you'll be very satisfied with the camera. Once you start getting into the menu system and tweaking stuff you're going to start seeing some nice looking images coming out of this camera.
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