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News: Lock mode button for Canon: Is there bang for the buck?

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
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Canon Product Advisory: here

Canon's new Mode lock button can be yours for $100! While other companies, like Pentax and Nikon, built this into the mode dial, we Canon loyalists have to pay extra for what should be considered repairing a design flaw. Or is my frustration unique finding that the mode button shitted from Manual to Tv during a shoot!

So who is going to update their cameras?

I for one! Really I love my canons and welcome the fix. But $100? That's steep!

Asher
 
Asher, I had two reactions when I first saw this fix a couple days ago. First was, "alright!", and the second, when I saw the price was, "no way!" I'll continue to use a bit of vinyl electric tape to keep my mode dial locked on manual. The tape doesn't last too long, but at less than a penny per application, the body will be a museum piece before total cost of tape reaches even a small fraction of the cost of the lock.

And then, thinking about it some more, I realized that this lock is really a fix for a design flaw. Asking owners to pony up for the fix is a bit arrogant, don't you think?

I think I read that it would be available only in Japan for the time being, so it won't a decision to wrestle with any time soon.
 

Doug Kerr

Well-known member
Hi, Asher,

Interesting development.

I personally do not have any problem inadvertently changing the shooting mode on EOS digital cameras.

I would likely find a full-time release button a nuisance, but perhaps not.

Now, if Canon would introduce a release button that could be, for example by depressing it and turning it, disabled, I would think that very nice.

I have changed shutter release buttons in EOS digital cameras, and I would not do it for $100.00. (Free, perhaps, but not for $100.00.)

Best regards,

Doug
 

Nill Toulme

New member
Happily they are not offering this for the T2i, as I would be tempted. I'll stick (so to speak) with gaffer's tape.

Nill
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Asher, I had two reactions when I first saw this fix a couple days ago. First was, "alright!", and the second, when I saw the price was, "no way!" I'll continue to use a bit of vinyl electric tape to keep my mode dial locked on manual. The tape doesn't last too long, but at less than a penny per application, the body will be a museum piece before total cost of tape reaches even a small fraction of the cost of the lock.

I find the moving of the dial a real issue every single day! It's a design flaw IMHO. The tape is not a solution for me as I do change often between manual and Av. Those are all I need.


I think I read that it would be available only in Japan for the time being, so it won't a decision to wrestle with any time soon.

It's supposed to be avalable in US service centers from December 2010!


Contact Information for Inquiries:
Canon U.S.A., Inc.
Canon Customer Support Center
Phone: 1-800-OK-CANON
1-800-652-2666
TTD: 1-866-251-3752
E-mail: carecenter@cits.canon.com
Support options and hours of operation: http://www.usa.canon.com/support
 

Kathy Rappaport

pro member
All the time

It's so annoying to spend $2500 plus tax for a camera and have photos that are useless because you knock the dial into the wrong mode. It doesn't take much. I have more than one 5d2 so it's more than $100 for me but I think necessary to do.
 

Chris Kettle

New member
I'l love to dial mode lock for my 550D, but I don't think that I'm will to fork out $100 yet.
Maybe I'll change my mind when I end up with some ruined photos because the dial shifted on me :)
 
My cheap Canon XT doesn't even have the locking mode button, Nor would I wouldn't pay for there design flaw. if enough people complain about it they might drop the price.
 

Don Ferguson Jr.

Well-known member
My cheap Canon XT doesn't even have the locking mode button, Nor would I wouldn't pay for there design flaw. if enough people complain about it they might drop the price.

Yea ,I so want a 7D :) and will get one when it comes down a little more .I have a XT as well but once I put it in AV of which I use most the time it stays . I do not see how it gets knocked out easy.
 

Doug Kerr

Well-known member
Hi, Cody,

My cheap Canon XT doesn't even have the locking mode button, Nor would I wouldn't pay for there design flaw. if enough people complain about it they might drop the price.
Are we thinking of the same Canon?

Best regards,

Doug
 
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