Originally posted by Photos-by-Chas Your comment is appropriate for many Canon users that I've met and known. One in particular was so seemingly overwhelmed by the Canon 5D that he was a walking commercial for the camera. In his mind there was no camera better...until they introduced the Mark II. I imagine he felt the same when the next versions were released. I wonder what he is using now with the increase in pixel count and the FF cameras now available from Canon. A couple others that I worked with at the time also seemed to believe there were no better cameras than Canon. I took lot of ribbing/abuse about my Pentax DSLR.
I think some of the reviewers go a bit overboard on Canikons also. As example here is a quote from a 2018 review of the 5D MkII: "The sheer detail capture by the sensor is head-spinning, and it's difficult not to spend hours pixel peeping in Lightroom just to gawk over it." Hours of pixel peeping any image made with any camera? A bit overzealous in my book.
On a now defunct Romanian forum, the default recommendation to any entry level SLR buying advice was the original 5D. Because it was oh so much better, and would last forever or something. It could also survive an underwater dive.
Now we're told that we're "obsolete", clinging to our antiquated technology cameras. It's all extremely emotional and tribalistic.
Funny enough, IMHO the Pentaxians tend to be more open minded - despite people calling us zealots and so on.