Originally posted by beholder3 Fact behing this is that no other company has had lower quality products in the last few years.
Nikon's customer flee because a product is not good quality enough, for nothing else.
Yes. The D500, D5, 24 f/1.8 G, 500 and 600mm f/4E, 105mm f/1.4E, etc etc.. those were all lower quality products.
The issue for the drop in DSLRs isn't due to poor products. It is due to a more dynamic market allowing for more choice. We see now that when some of the customers are given the option for small and light over sheer image quality/image resolution, they opt for small and light.
While others desire sheer image quality at the highest resolution, price and weight don't matter to them.
Nikon hasn't been too adept at tapping into that new branch of the camera market and exciting customers... so those customers go for Fuji, Sony, Panasonic, and Olympus..
It would be the same scenario if you only had the choice of Cornflakes for breakfast. But, along comes Sony offering fresh Fruit. Fuji now offers Poptarts and Granola bars. Olympus has Danish pastries and Crullers.
Now we see, with new appealing options, some people venturing from Cornflakes to fresh fruit or Danish pastries. Because those choices appeal more to them now that those choices are available. Before they were just making due with the standard because they had minimal choice.. so they made what they felt was the best choice at the market at the time.
Originally posted by beholder3 No other company lost so many customers.
Pentax could only dream of having that many customers to lose.
Originally posted by beholder3 As Nikon has never been any more than a poor Canon clone, there would be little to loose anyhow.
It is obvious your dislike of Nikon. But your dislike seems to be clouding your view of reality. They're not that bad.