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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
11-02-2018, 07:38 AM
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I’m sure they would love your cat pictures. I bought a Huawei P20 pro to replace a Samsung that I had gotten sick of. It’s a pretty nice phone and has a really decent camera. Frankly, I think all the noise about Chinese cell phones is more about stirring up one person’s base with red meat than anything else.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
11-01-2018, 04:46 PM
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An old and now shuffled off to that great darkroom in the sky friend ended up using M43 equipment for the size. He was pretty crippled and found the full size stuff too much to handle. There were never any problems with the quality he got from the gear.
Here's an example of what might be coming down the pike to knock off another camera category though:
Yongnuo announces the development of a new mirrorless system camera! - mirrorlessrumors |
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
11-01-2018, 10:09 AM
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Other than Tony Northrop’s verbal version.........
Sorry, couldn’t resist.
Of course I’m right. I’m always right.
Seriously though, The present users of m43 are probably not going anywhere as long as they are content with what they are getting. However, there is the potential for feature creep and quality improvements in cell phones to close the gap with M43 thereby eroding their potential market. This is what happened with compact cameras.
The people who want M43 for compact telephoto lenses to facilitate BIF photography (as an example) are something of an outlier. I suspect most users are of the more mundane travel or family photographer type, prime candidates for a multi use device such as a smartphone with an advanced built in camera.
Let’s face it, if a person has to choose between leaving their cell phone or their camera at home, the camera is going to stay in the closet.
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How many M43 users are buying super telephoto lenses? I’m thinking the number is quite low. Cell phones don’t have to attract that user, who is quite a specialist, they just have to attract enough of the more mundane users to make a big enough dent in camera sales.
The people who just like cameras would, of course, still have the ability to buy cameras. No one is saying that they will go away. I note that the Pentax Q series has been dropped, as has the Nikon 1 series. What this says about people willing to pay for miniaturization I can only guess at. Some are, but I guess not enough.
As an aside, I purchased a Q and several lenses when it first came out. I seriously underutilized it, but my wife decided she liked it and used it for several years. She stopped using it when she gave up her flip phone and entered the world of smartphones a couple of years ago with an iPhone5. She has no desire to pick up the Q or any other camera, the smartphone floats her boat quite well
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
11-01-2018, 07:59 AM
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I have a dog that likes eating the droppings from the other dog.....:) Nice dog, no accounting for taste.
I always thought M43 was a solution to a non existent problem. Cameras in general are moving upscale as a defence against the onslaught of the very much improved cell phones’ cameras that are starting to hit the market. I could very easily see, in the near future, having to go to a larger than m43 sensor to get significantly better IQ than what cell phones will be giving.
Cell phones have already picked off compact P&S camera and are hitting bridge cameras pretty hard. It may only be a matter of time before they fall victim, and after that, the cell phone makers will set thier sights on M43.
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