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Oct 12, 2005
The following is an e-mail I received from Michael Tapes yesterday. It concerns a quite real design flaw in the new Custom Mode of the new Canon 5D. Since I am leaving tomorrow on an extended shoot in Asia, I am simply reprinting Michael's letter to me, as is, so that 5D owners are aware of the issue. Whether this is something that Canon chooses to address with a firmware update remains to be seen. – Michael Reichmann
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Michael, The following has been brought to my attention by a friend, who like you and I, recently purchased the 5D. Also like you and me he is very pleased with the camera. I think thrilled would be more accurate. Because of the numbers of people that will be buying this camera, I thought that it would be important for your readers who now or shortly will own the 5D to be careful of the following"gotcha". Both my friend (Mike Arst) and myself think it is quite a serious flaw...

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Michael Reichmann is the founder of the Luminous Landscape. Michael passed away in May 2016. Since its inception in 1999 LuLa has become the world's largest site devoted to the art, craft, and technology of photography. Each month more than one million people from every country on the globe visit LuLa.
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