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Forum: Photographic Industry and Professionals
01-10-2019, 03:03 PM
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From my reading, both the Nikon and the Canon are disappointing compared to their DSLRs, but of the two, yes, the Nikon disappoints least. I think I saw the heading on a YouTube video of that landscaper Thomas Heaton, something along the lines of 'Why I'm getting rid of my EOS-R after one week' or similar click-baity title.
Canon and Nikon are big enough to spend all that money on a new product pointing to the future, cop the negative feedback, and survive with extra funding to rectify some problems in Gen 2, but even then they'll hope to get four years or more on the shelves out of Gen 1, that's just recouping costs.
Our beloved Pentax is so small a similar reaction to all that development spending would probably cause Ricoh to shut it down and exit the non-industrial camera market. A small company attempting anything with big funding involved has to absolutely nail it as it did with the 645Z, K-1 or Q, it can't be a near miss like the K-01.
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Forum: Photographic Industry and Professionals
11-08-2018, 05:13 PM
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Yeah, and my hunch - that's all it is, I've no figures whatsoever - is that the A9 was an expensive flop. So you can overreach in the premium market, too, because I suspect (again, no data, just gut feel) the RX1R is a similar failure, unlike Leica, who it was designed to undercut.
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Forum: Photographic Industry and Professionals
11-08-2018, 03:55 PM
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Let me say straight out that as discussed in the past, the BCN ratings can't be trusted to represent the market, as they're an odd index of some comparatively minor outlets in Japan.
But on the subject of brand releases, Paul, did you realise that the formerly prolific Sony has itself released only one camera this year, the A7 III?
And that it has not released an entry level or middle level APS-C camera since 2014?
This is the troubled industry we're seeing. "Affordable" cameras and lenses won't keep a company going, premium to a minority is the direction.
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