Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
01-21-2015, 02:09 PM
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LOL. Let's just wait and see - if anything turns up at all.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
01-17-2015, 05:03 PM
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But they are hardware vendors. Features should, as much as possible, be included at design stage and be available to customers out of the box, not turned on [or off?] for a price.
What Nikon is trying to do reminds me of an old tale about how IBM would sometimes do mainframe upgrades. In the days when computer rooms were the equivalent of voodoo temples, IBM would sell customers a $200,000 upgrade to their mainframes which they presented as a very complex and sophisticated operation, but which actually involved an IBM on-site technician merely flicking a switch to turn on extra hardware that was already present in the installed computer. Needless to say, (if they ever realized what was actually going on) customers were not impressed by such sharp practices.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
01-16-2015, 04:15 PM
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Nikon offering a two-tier (free + paid) firmware upgrade policy would be stupid and customer un-friendly.
Other brands like Fuji and Ricoh (eg with the GR and GXR) and even Pentax (eg the addition of Diffraction Correction to the K-3 via firmware) have a long history of new feature-enabling firmware updates, sometimes adding enhanced features to cameras that are a few years old and out of production. It's nothing new. Even Sony has done stuff to enable their NEX hardware (like the shutter) to do new tricks.
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