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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
09-07-2018, 12:21 PM
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Yes it’s about the whole user experience and not just one feature on its own. Oly offer a very good overall system, not just a body and a lens. They are also very good at repairs/support and workshops and tutorial days where I live. I like things from folks who make the effort to be a bit more than just another camera outfit. The M43 sensor is limiting, imho, but only very rarely for what I shoot. The advantages of size and system outweigh it. And Oly are very good lensmakers, which is key.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
09-07-2018, 04:58 AM
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Oly have a knack of doing interesting things. I hope their next venture is more interesting than the current rumour of another $2K+ M43 camera which few could afford and likely wouldn’t seem good value anyway in the era of $2K FF numbers. M43 is facing tricky times, imho. Still has a rationale but avoiding the Canonikony steamroller won’t be easy.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
08-31-2018, 09:02 AM
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Likely Panasonic have to do this to protect their position in video. That’s nearly all of it right there. They’ll have known for a long while that the big boys esp. Canon with dual pixel would up their game in video with new-gen FF offerings which can do 6K, 8K et al. whereas Panny would be stuck on M43 + DFD focusing.
If the Leica SL mount checks out then perhaps that signals a Leica-Panasonic-Olympus FF consortium. Good idea perhaps, otherwise Oly is out in the cold. Ouch. Also may signal that as the market gets tougher and tougher the smaller players know they have to group up and consolidate. Or else.
Only a rumour of course. Might just be a pure video cam, after all. We’ll see.
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