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EOS M5 rumoured specs
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The chinese character for "4", "å››", is the same syllable "Si" as the character for "death", "æ­»", although it isn't read precisely the same way because they have different tones (the 4th and the 3rd respectively) - but apparently it's close enough (definitely so for a non-Chinese) for a superstition to arise. It isn't that way in other Asian languages - because they're different - but the notion may have spread through the Chinese cultural influence, which is vast.

 

It's interesting that only the poor number four is suffering while there are, as you might've guessed, a lot more characters that are pronounced Si (for example, "思" means "to think", "丝" stands for "thread" - as in fabric - and "寺" means "temple / shrine"). The numerology thing strikes again. Smile

 

And, uh, speaking of the Canon M system, about the only interesting things in it (in my opinion) are the two available primes, obviously the 28/3.5 macro more so (though I still don't think it alone can merit the purchase of the system). The rest of the system is so half-hearted that if it hadn't been for the Canon name, it would get that much less attention, or might've even folded after a couple of years just like the Samsung system which, in my opinion, was vastly better than the M but for some reason faile to take off in a big way, despite having some very cool lenses and pretty interesting cameras. I might've bought into that if I had been seriously getting into the mirrorless a year or two ago, but I decided to skip it out entirely and just soldier on with a DSLR...

  


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EOS M5 rumoured specs - by Brightcolours - 09-02-2016, 04:55 PM
EOS M5 rumoured specs - by popo - 09-02-2016, 05:27 PM
EOS M5 rumoured specs - by Klaus - 09-03-2016, 03:18 AM
EOS M5 rumoured specs - by Brightcolours - 09-03-2016, 06:39 AM
EOS M5 rumoured specs - by Rover - 09-03-2016, 07:05 AM
EOS M5 rumoured specs - by Guest - 09-03-2016, 01:33 PM
EOS M5 rumoured specs - by thxbb12 - 09-04-2016, 12:12 PM
EOS M5 rumoured specs - by Rover - 09-04-2016, 06:19 PM
EOS M5 rumoured specs - by toni-a - 09-04-2016, 07:37 PM
EOS M5 rumoured specs - by Guest - 09-05-2016, 04:38 PM
EOS M5 rumoured specs - by JJ_SO - 09-05-2016, 05:14 PM
EOS M5 rumoured specs - by chrismiller - 09-06-2016, 08:23 AM
EOS M5 rumoured specs - by Rover - 09-07-2016, 08:13 PM
EOS M5 rumoured specs - by Guest - 09-08-2016, 02:04 PM

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