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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
09-01-2018, 08:17 AM
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The technical and economic/licensing discussions around adopting a common mount in micro 4/3 would have been interesting to hear. It's one thing to agree on commonality; it's another, entirely unacceptable, thing to want to force it on people. The more players involved, the higher the chance that someone is going to lose out by being obliged to accept a common solution.
Can you imagine how Pentaxians would have felt in the changeover to digital if they were told that all Pentax digital bodies were going to use what is now the current Canon mount (for example)? "betrayed" does not even begin to describe it. We pride ourselves here on the extent of our legacy support; imagine that all going out the window (and Nikon owners would have been in a very similar boat).
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
09-01-2018, 03:22 AM
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I believe the Panasonic and Olympus lenses are cross-compatible, i.e. the M4/3 systems share a common mount, but IMHO expecting all the competitors in full-frame mirrorless to do this is a bit like Pentax giving out the K-mount spec way back when and having Nikon and Canon adopt it. Granted, Ricoh and Chinon did, but the days when Pentax was the name associated with the 'universal' SLR lens mount (M42) were probably already long gone.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
08-31-2018, 10:12 AM
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Don't do it quickly; do it right.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
08-31-2018, 08:36 AM
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I suspect there's going to be anyway. From what I've been seeing, the Z6 and Z7 have some glaring omissions (in some potential users' minds) that can't easily be rectified without a redesign (no provision for a vertical grip, only one card slot, no support for Nikon screwdrive F mount AF) and other issues), and which smack of Nikon trying to reinvent the wheel rather than looking at what was criticised in other makers' models and addressing that in the basic design. If Panasonic and (separately) Canon can avoid those mistakes, they're going to cut the legs out from under any follow-up Nikon design that redresses the current perceived failures. It's not going to be pretty, and it could spell the end for Nikon as one of the Majors.
If Nikon manages to pick itself up and dust itself off, and transitions completely to mirrorless and the Z mount, that will leave Pentax as the only remaining manufacturer that still offers significant legacy support for its film-era glass in its own name.
Panasonic's advantage is that it has a solid background in mirrorless. However, that's in M4/3, and the degree to which this translates over into full-frame while entering a crowded market is going to be interesting to watch. I've seen some of the Lumix cameras at a distance; they looked as big as my K-5 for a smaller sensor. If they don't keep a careful eye on it, they're going to end up with a grossly oversized camera for the job it's meant to do.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
08-31-2018, 07:19 AM
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Let them all savage each other to death. While Canikon fights it out with Panasony in Mirrorless, there's a DSLR market there that Pentax could take a slice of. All it needs to do is keep putting out competent cameras.
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