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Arka wrote:
I have no problem at all with video integration, provided it is done well and doesn't get in the way of making good still images. I don't use it much, but I can certainly imagine times that I would use it, and am happy that I don't have to purchase a separate camera to do it.
That describes my feelings more or less. I'm happy to have video (and great video, at that) in my 5DII... even though I almost never use it. It is well integrated and does/did not impair the functionality of the camera at all.
I think my comment was more about the context of the question (the sense that Canon is not moving along as quickly in some aspects of still photography functionality at the moment) with its suggestion that Canon is doing what photographers are telling them they want, namely focus on more powerful video functionality even if that means holding back on still image performance.
And, as I suggested in a follow up comment, it is often wise to not give too much credibility to what you think you are reading in a media interview with the spokesperson for a corporation. (Not just Canon. Any corporation.) There is a fine art to saying things that allow your listeners/readers to fill in the blanks with whatever hopes or preconceptions they may have.
I'm not one to flip out any time some other company comes out with something new and impressive. (Heck, I'm still happily shooting with my 5DII!) However, things in the camera market have evolved in ways that have turned the tables on Canon significantly. Not that many years ago, Canon was arguably ahead of all the other companies in most camera-related ways:
- full frame sensors
- high MP sensors
- overall image quality
- integrated video
- full line from consumer to professional gear
What has changed? Non-DSLR high end (and consumer) cameras are coming on strong. Canon is no longer the only company producing full frame sensor cameras. Other companies are producing higher MP sensor cameras for those who want them. Other companions are producing cameras/systems that are at least as good at the high end. Everyone now integrates video and provides live view or the equivalent.
This is not meant to denigrate Canon but rather to point out that the game has changed. It is interesting to me that it was only a year or two ago that there was talk that the camera market had made the bulk of possible improvements in digital cameras. Seems that many spoke too soon.
On the plus side, a few years back I wrote a piece about how I expected that eventually Canon would sell full frame cameras for prices equivalent to those of the better cropped sensor bodies. I took a bit of grief on that one... but his week I saw 6D bodies selling in the mid- to upper-$1000s range. Looks like it has happened. :-)
Take care,
Dan
Edited on Apr 28, 2014 at 09:56 PM · View previous versions
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