I’ll probably cool off on the whole anti-Canon thing, but I remain aware of the fact I shoot most of my better pictures with my Pentax point-and-shoot because it’s waterproof, and therefore always handy…

Caught this – and twenty-some of its brothers – in RMNP last week on my fifth(?) time out with a fly rod.

Shot it with my crummy old Rebel 35mm with the crappy 28-80mm kit lens. Note: no backfocusing!

I feel your pain. Luckily, my gear is still under warranty because I picked it up just a few months ago. I had to pick it up because my entire bag (I work as a photojournalist, too, and travel pretty light) was stolen back in March. (It should be noted that I never had any problems with that 20D + 70-200 f4L.) The office has an XTi that I used for one assignment before the CF eject button fell into the body. That also was a $200+ repair.

So much for brand loyalty…

Called before I sent it and got one story, but the repair estimate after shipping it in was astronomical, and two subsequent calls got different stories.

It’s a crummy little piece of nothing that shouldn’t have failed to begin with, and they wanted $200+ to repair it – only a little less than what the thing was worth.

I hate that kind of crap – and I’m a longtime Canon partisan who still has a bag full of old Canon F1 pro bodies from my photojournalism years (the 80s).

What sort of issues are you having with your Canon? I just got my 40D + 70-200 f4L lens back from the service center to be calibrated and it’s STILL backfocusing. The lens had already been in a month prior.

L + red line = no #@%!ing backfocusing.