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CanadaMark wrote:
Meh, every single time this exact question has been asked before, it's been proven wrong. The 'practical use' definition also varies wildly from person to person. So personally I don't think so. Most people thought 12MP and good ISO 1600 was more than one could ever ask for. Then we thought 36MP was WAY too much and would suck beyond base ISO, but it ended up changing the entire industry in a good way.
Sensor technology has somewhat hit a wall overall (ISO performance across all sensors normalized to the same MP is roughly the same these days) and has been there for a while now. Most APS-C cameras have been at a 24MP maximum for many years now (54MP FF equivalent). You might start to see things like radical new designs, more stacked sensors, etc. going forward. Maybe someone will buy Sigma's Foveon tech and put the R&D money into it that it needs. Sensor manufacturers, like Sony Semiconductor Solutions, make enormous profits, and you can bet they don't want that to stop anytime soon. This is where I would hope the next innovations are focused. Manufacturers try to draw things out as long as possible though, milking profits over the longest possible period of time. That's why you see so many incremental updates, regardless of what they might already be capable of offering.
Nikon's new AF was pretty huge, and nobody else has anything even close to it at the moment, so it will take a while for the industry to catch back up. That being said, they have been using roughly the same AF system since 2007 previously, so this new one will probably be around for a long while.
FPS will probably hit a natural wall when it the frame-rates simply become video haha.
Memory has been getting pretty good, 200 RAW frames with XQD (or virtually unlimited if you just lift your finger and put it down again) is hard to complain about. It will have to speed up too with higher frame rates and higher MP. I don't think this will be an issue - there are so many technologies out there already that can handle it.
The mirrorless world is still very much in its infancy and I think there is still plenty that will be done there. In fact it's so far behind in some areas I don't believe I will see a mirrorless camera I would use as my primary camera in my lifetime. I think there will be a lot of innovation there still, and maybe some of it will surprise me.
The camera industry doesn't take huge strides every year but if you look at some history:
2007 --> D3/D300 shook up the entire industry
2008 --> D700 added, giving all out professional FF performance in a compact package for the first time
2012 --> D800 changes the industry once again with 36MP that was actually very usable at an attainable price point
2012 --> D600 offers a full featured full frame DSLR with top IQ at a price point not seen before
2016 --> D500 offers for the first time a DX camera with near identical performance to a flagship (D5) including back-end dedicated AF processing for under $2K. CAM20K AF introduced and will likely be the platform for all subsequent models for the next 5-10 years.
2017/2018 - Probably nothing too mind blowing on the DSLR front, mostly just the predictable refreshes of existing products with the requisite feature, MP and AF bumps. You can see there is 4-6 years between all the really interesting stuff ...Show more →
What equipment do you use Mark if you don't mind me asking?
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